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PODCAST - Re-Defining Community: Social Media as a Resource for ADHD

Podcast Episode: Re-Defining Community , Social Media as a resource for ADHD. Click below to listen to my podcast on my experience with growing up undiagnosed, and the role that social media played in bringing me to a diagnosis and the betterment of my life!  

Hacking my ADHD: Weird Stuff I Do To Combat My Executive Dysfunction

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Everyone's experience with ADHD varies so much. I've talked to so many people with the same diagnosis. What one person experiences, the other hasn't ever -- the spectrum is so vast with ADHD, and makes it difficult to nail down solutions for some of our common issues. (That -- and the fact that we are all just very different people at our core.)  The number one thing I personally struggle with thanks to my ADHD is productivity. My mother would say that I can't ever "... get my ducks in a row ." For those of you who didn't grow up under the insightful wisdom and guidance of Judy Polvado Criswell, it was a nice way of saying I never had my crap together. I've tried keeping a planner, setting alarms, having someone to keep me accountable... anything and everything that has ever been suggested to me, but those solutions come with their own set of problems too.  The planner gets lost in my messy backpack or the back of my car, and I completely forget I own ...