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Focus, starting, and ADHD

Most advice about focus is written for a brain that starts easily. This area is not. It covers what ADHD actually is, how to make a start when starting is the hard part, how to bring a future consequence close enough to feel, and how to stop paying for it in shame.

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Theme · Treatment and medication
Feelings and focus 6Screens and attention 5Remembering to do it 3Shame and stigma 3Bringing the future closer 2Treatment and medication 2What ADHD actually is 2Getting assessed and diagnosed 1Use your strengths 1Your sense of time 1
How long you have · Five minutes
A minute 1Five minutes 2Longer 1
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ADHD skills 1Medical and treatment 1
When · After a row
Any ordinary day 22Coming and going 5In a change 2After a row 2
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This explains how treatments work. Never start, stop or change a medication because of something you read here.

The point of explaining ADHD to a parent is to produce a particular kind of parent: one who is kind about it, quick to forgive the day's failures, and willing to make a nuisance of themselves at school.

Those three are results, not manners. Harsh days breed pushing back, pushing back breeds harsher days, and that loop is the main road from ADHD to a…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationADHD skillsQur’an 2:286

Medication does not make somebody care more. It narrows the distance between meaning to do the thing and doing it, and that distance is exactly what the other person has been feeling as being let down.

It helps a couple enormously to have the right name for what has been happening. The intention was real every single time. What went missing was the…

Five minutesTreatment and medicationMedical and treatmentQur’an 48:17