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Five Most Important ADHD Tips --- ADHD Tip O the Day 941

Five Most Important ADHD Tips — ADHD Tip O the Day 941

With ADHD we’re not good at prioritizing or making choices or keeping list short, but here’s some of the most important tips/tools/strategies to help you make your life better: 1. Small steps – Don’t try to write the essay, try to write the first paragraph (or first sentence). Often if you take the first step, you’ll keep going, but that’s not the goal. 2. Specific small chunks  – Don’t try to…

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Failing with ADHD --- ADHD Tip O the Day 940.1

Failing with ADHD — ADHD Tip O the Day 940.1

“I am a failure.” What a terrible thing to say about yourself. I often read posts from mothers who say they’re failing, that they must be a bad mother. Often that means they can’t get their child to do what they want them to do. Sometimes their approach is wrong, or their goals are wrong, or what they are trying to do is impossible. We all fail sometimes, don’t we?  We are not God, not even…

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Venting --- ADHD Tip O the Day 938

Venting — ADHD Tip O the Day 938

It’s good for us to vent and get things off our chest occasionally. This works best of course if we have an audience. Thank you for being my audience today. 2. Word has decided to revolt and take control. It changes fonts and spacing at random, anytime it wishes, and often resists my efforts to get it back where it belongs. 3. Facebook blocked my post because someone reported some thing as…

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Simplistic Oversimplified Simple Version of the Whole Damn Thing --- ADHD Tip O the Day 937.1

Simplistic Oversimplified Simple Version of the Whole Damn Thing — ADHD Tip O the Day 937.1

  We’ve been reviewing the science of ADHD, so to start the New Year (it’s gotta be better), here’s a summary of the neurobiology (as I understand it). (If this is old stuff to you, please  just scroll down to Personal Notes and below.) Our brains are made up of cells (neurons). The cell body contains the nucleus (containing the genes) and the chemical manufacturing units, and has long tubes…

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Update on ADHD — ADHD Tip O the Day 936.1

Update on ADHD — ADHD Tip O the Day 936.1

2021’s gotta be different! A good way to start the new year will be to update your knowledge of ADHD. A key strategy for managing our lives with ADHD is to educate ourselves. We can each become an ADHD expert and without too much effort we can know more about ADHD than most professionals. I want to share three articles. Here’s the edited summary of the first but I encourage you to read the whole…

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Update on ADHD --- ADHD Tip O the Day 936

Update on ADHD — ADHD Tip O the Day 936

A good way to start the new year will be to update your knowledge of ADHD. A key strategy for managing our lives with ADHD is to educate ourselves. We can each become an ADHD expert and without too much effort we can know more about ADHD than most professionals. I want to share three articles. Here’s the edited summary of the first but I encourage you to read the whole article from the link…

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Overindulge? With ADHD? --- ADHD Tip O the Day

Overindulge? With ADHD? — ADHD Tip O the Day

With ADHD, we are at risk. I hope you don’t overindulge over the holidays. All you need to do is use your willpower, self-control, and judgment. Assuming you have some. Not all of us do. My wife makes wonderful cookies.  And pies. Our friends and neighbors give us good eats.  Oh my.   And there’s parties.  And even with the virus, I’ll admit we have some booze at home and there still is a lot to…

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"Science Says ---" ADHD 933.1

“Science Says —” ADHD 933.1

“Science says–.”

What does that even mean?

That means that there have been more than one or two studies supporting this hypothesis and the original findings have been replicated by other scientists in other places. The studies have been reviewed by experts in the field who agree that the studies were well designed and the results valid.  Then the  results have been published in reputable…

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