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Mindfulness Amended
Meditation: the very word may send you running for the hills. For someone with ADHD, what could be less enticing than sitting perfectly still in total silence and attempting to clear your mind? Pouring fire ants down your underwear might seem more tolerable. And yet,…
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The Wrong Question: “What Should I Be When I Grow Up?”
During my freshman orientation, the college president gave our class an opening speech: “Don’t worry if you don’t know what you want to major in,” he comforted us. “Even if you think you know, the majority of college students change their major at least once.…
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Chronic lateness: it’s me, not you
I was recently reading a post on an internet forum where someone was venting about a friend of theirs who is chronically late, and was asking the internet to shine some light on this behavior. Here were some of the most top-voted responses: “I refuse…
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ESCAPE FROM SCREEN LAND:ADHD, screen addiction, and how I’m fighting back
My name is David, and I’m a screen addict. “Sure, aren’t we all?” you might ask. Being glued to our phones has become a fact of life for modern American culture. But when I say I’m addicted, I’m not using hyperbole. I’ve recently had to…
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Enslaved to the moment
Sooner or later, we learn that we aren’t always the masters of our own ship. The very concept of “self-control” implies that we are two entities: the self who is controlling, and the self who is being controlled. For those of us with ADHD, not…
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Can “brain hacks” cure ADHD?
For most of my ADHD life, I have focused on treating my condition behaviorally. Using the principle of brain plasticity, I’ve gradually trained myself to adopt different habits, develop more self-discipline, and structure my time and my external environment in ways that compensate for my…
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Driving the ADHD Brain
The other day, while browsing the psychology shelves of my local bookstore, I saw a book about ADHD entitled “Faster Than Normal.” For better or for worse (probably both, in different ways), this is the opposite of my experience. If I were to write a…
Divergent Daydreams
A blog about ADHD, neurodivergence, and creative self-development
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