Guest Blogs
“Phone Distractions Were Sabotaging My Relationships, Sleep & Self-Esteem”
“Turning off the blue ticks on WhatsApp, deleting Facebook, silencing notifications for anything but...
Guest Blogs
Welcome to the No Judgment Zone! Read these essays, diary entries, and snapshots of daily life written by ADDitude readers who are parenting children with ADHD, living with adult ADHD, and all of the above.
Guest Blogs
“I Wrote My Own IEP (Individualized Excellence Plan) and It Changed Everything”
"Borrowing inspiration from IEPs, I wanted to draft my own plan for success to help me harness the...
Caregiver Blogs
“My Chaperone Diary: Tales of a Neurodivergent Field Trip”
What could go wrong while chaperoning eighth graders with ADHD and learning differences on a day trip...
Guest Blogs
“The ADHD Impulses I Suppressed My Whole Life? I am Unleashing Them.”
“When I reflect on my childhood, I see a distinct correlation between suppressed hyperactivity,...
Ask the Experts
“I Need a Digital Detox. How Do I Break a Social-Media Habit?”
“My mantra for people with ADHD is that if it takes more than two to three steps to do something,...
Guest Blogs
“ADHD Is Not a Real Superpower. Claiming It Is Helps No One.”
“In the ongoing fight to raise much-needed awareness around ADHD, it’s vital we don’t romanticize it....
Adult Blogs
“I Hired a Virtual Assistant and It’s the Best Thing I’ve Done for My ADHD”
“It’s not fair that we struggle with ADHD. Executive dysfunction makes daily living needlessly...
Guest Blogs
“Life on Mars: Why Peopling Is a Mystery to Me”
“When your interactions with other kids are severely lacking because other children run away from you...
Adult Blogs
“Oversharing Is My Default Mode. So Is the RSD-Induced Shame I Feel Afterward.”
“Oversharing is a dangerous cocktail for people with ADHD and RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria). It...
Guest Blogs
“I am a Neurodivergent Black Woman — and I am Filled with Hope.”
“These signs of change give me so much hope that young, Black, neurodiverse girls today won’t have to...
Guest Blogs
“I Became Someone Unrecognizable — Even to Myself”
In this stirring and honest essay, a teen girl shares her story of reckoning and recovery, explains...
Guest Blogs
“My ADHD Unleashed a Workaholic. ‘Quiet Quitting’ Is Saving Me.”
“My workplace burnout and everything leading up to it made sense after I was diagnosed with ADHD. I...