ADHD tips from my school counselors:
“You need to create a study routine!”
“You need to stop fidgeting…you’re distracting yourself!”
“Get more exercise and take your meds!”
“Stop procrastinating!”
ADHD tips from my friends with ADHD:
“I eat one chocolate chip for every page I read.”
“I can only study by playing the gravity game on the Quizlet website. I need to beat my friend’s high score.”
“Every ten minutes I get up, put on one song by Taylor Swift, and wiggle around until I feel better.”
“Instead of checkboxes, I draw little flowers next to each task, and after I finished the task, I color in the flower in a fun color.”
Okay but I want to point out one small thing you might not have noticed: the first half is all framed as instructions, whereas the second half is all “well this is what I do because it works for me”
It just, I want to appreciate that because it acknowledges that everyone needs slightly different tools and tactics for their own unique brain. it’s like, ‘you could try what I do but it doesn’t have to be your solution.’
