Raising awareness of all things ADHD!
All of the Blog posts for ADHD and Me. These articles have been created by ADHD Girl based on her experiences of living with ADHD.
Approximately 30% of people who have ADHD, also have something called SAD otherwise known as Seasonal Affective Disorder. In essence, it means that for six months of the year your mental health suffers and so in effect so does your ADHD. It’s been 5 years since I first discovered that I have this condition and in that time I’ve been finding out how and why […]
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In our third feature story for ‘The Late Bloomers of ADHD’ series, a woman reveals how working from home during lockdown sent her mental health on a downward spiral. This led her on a journey to get her diagnosis at the age of 47, where she actually had to educate and convince her doctor on some important aspects of ADHD. Here she tells her story…. […]
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Social norms are the unwritten rules of society which we ADHDers struggle to grasp, but ones which we are expected to conform. These things can range from knowing how to sit appropriately, knowing what to wear based on temperature changes and also knowing when to speak in a conversation (especially if there are more than two people involved). No matter how hard we try our […]
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Our second feature story in ‘The Late Bloomers of ADHD’ Series is about a woman who only got diagnosed with ADHD at age 52 and believes that the years of struggling while being undiagnosed led to burnout which caused her to get fibromyalgia. In this article she explains how when she was in school there was no such thing as ADHD and how a diagnosis […]
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ADHD is so fickle. We’re either struggling so badly to the point that everyone can see it or we’re coping well enough so that nobody sees us.
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Our first feature story in ‘The Late Bloomers of ADHD’ series is about a woman who got arrested at the age of 27 and put on the path to getting diagnosed with ADHD while serving an 18-month supervision order. Here in her own words, she discusses how a drugs treatment worker finally set on the path to seeking a diagnosis…. Back in 2005, I was […]
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Some people are quick to point out that ADHD is merely a label for people who think differently and in some ways I would agree with them, but it’s not the label that’s important so much as the understanding, validation, and support that comes with it. Yet there are people out there who would claim to have ADHD, even without a diagnosis for a multitude […]
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Welcome to my first blog article in my ‘The Late Bloomers of ADHD’ series. A series dedicated to women who have struggled for a long time before being diagnosed with ADHD at a later stage. It’s no secret that woman are usually better at hiding ADHD than men. This stems from women being more adaptable in different situations and therefore can mimic peers or develop […]
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Ok, sorry guys, but this one is more for the ladies. Of course, if you want to find time to understand the woman with ADHD in your life then this might be worth a read. I’m about to talk about a subject which strikes fear into the heart of many, and some people really don’t like to talk about at all. That subject has many […]
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Don’t let mess or stress rule your life; time is too short and you are too precious.
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As difficult as it is to have ADHD or ADD, we sometimes forget that there are people around us dealing with it too. In this blog article, I interview two people anonymously about their experiences of living with someone who has AD(H)D. One of the individuals in this blog interview has a husband who has undiagnosed ADHD, and a daughter who got diagnosed with ADHD […]
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One thing that a lot of people don’t tend to talk about is the impulsiveness of ADHD. True it can give us fast reflexes and make us better drivers but there is also a lot of difficult stuff that comes with that too. For example, the fact that we feel the need to act on intense emotions straight away or that we say things before […]
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The ADHD brain is wildly and beautifully chaotic! Most of the time it can only go on one speed and that speed is intensely fast. The difficulties of dealing with that and the repercussions it has can be overwhelming and unrelenting. While most people are able to switch off and enjoy quiet time, people with ADHD struggle to get any sense of peace while trying […]
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It has recently come to my attention that trying to get a child referred for an ADHD diagnosis differs greatly in the UK, depending on which area you live in. This little fact came up when I was talking with a foster parent who is trying to seek a diagnosis. Her child goes to school in a different local authority than the one they are […]
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