Raising awareness of all things ADHD!
Personal thoughts for. ADHD Girl.
There is something about this time of year that always makes me want to slow down.Maybe it’s the darker mornings. Maybe it’s the evenings drawing in. Maybe it’s the fact that my brain seems to notice the changing seasons before the rest of me does. Whatever it is, autumn always seems to arrive with a reminder that I simply cannot keep doing everything at the […]
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Surprise Surprise! Well actually no it wasn’t! The other week I officially got re-diagnosed with combined ADHD. Wait! You thought I already had a diagnosis? Well yep, you would be correct, the issue was I got diagnosed when I was ten years old, and when I was 17, well ADHD did not exist in adult form on the NHS. So, it was basically a case […]
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Ok buckle in because this blog article is going to include me getting really vulnerable about something that happened to me a few weeks ago. For the first time in over eight years, I attended a comic con by myself and if I’m honest it was a bit of disaster. I was already nervous about going cause most of the conventions I used to do […]
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Lately I’ve been reflecting on brokenness, which is no surprise considering that I feel like lately I’ve hit a breaking point mentally and emotionally. In typical ADHD fashion, I tend to spread myself much too thin, physically, emotionally and mentally. That’s because ADHD discipline is a bit of a fickle thing; you’re either pushing yourself too much or not enough, that doesn’t seem to be […]
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As I sit here on a bench with a view of the old Quarry Bank Mill with Elvis (my pug dog) by my side, I can’t help feeling like life should be filled with more moments like this. No expectations, no tasks with several ways they could go wrong! Just free of the pressure of ADHD, but then is it really our ADHD that causes […]
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Sometimes the best practical coping strategies are the ones we discover by accident.
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I had not been to London in about eight years. Back then I handled it. The pace, the noise, the constant movement. This time I went as a mum. And as a thirty-seven-year-old who is far more aware of her nervous system than she used to be. London with kids is not just a city break. It is logistics. It is bodies, bags, snacks, toilets, […]
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The other week I had to phone my bank because they’d taken money out of my account without my consent (or so I thought). At first, when I pushed all the options on the automated menu I got put on a silent ring with no ouput. Frustrated I called again, this time I spoke to a person who said they had to transfer me. By […]
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The other day I was scrolling on social media when I came across somebody who had made a post which read ‘NHS to put 301 million pounds into adult services.’ As someone who has just been told I have 7 years to wait to even have a conversation about medication this came as welcome news indeed. Then I saw the comment underneath. Somebody had posted […]
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Note: Apologies! This was scheuled to post almost two weeks ago but the website misfired on the scheduling. Only so much I can control! Happy New Year ADHDer and Allies. I hope 2026 has been good to you all so far. I’ve hit the ground running because I’m currently pursuing a publishing format for my 6th novel, writing my 7th (sequel to the 6th), collaborating […]
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What a year it has been. As we come to the end of 2025, I wanted to take a moment to look back at what this little corner of the internet has achieved. ADHD and Me has welcomed tens of thousands of visitors this year and more than three thousand came through Google alone. That number still blows my mind. It also proves something very […]
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Hey did you miss me?Sorry for a longer absence than usual, I had a horrible nasty virus that knocked me for six and I’ve just been focusing on the things that weren’t really optional. Do you not think us ADHDers make the worst patients? I mean for one we hate having to sit still to recover, but also those of us who like being productive […]
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For twenty years my doctor has never asked about my ADHD or how I’m coping with it. So now all this feels like a slap in the face.
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The majority of ADHDers seem to have SAD, and while I don’t know why that is. The effects of the two combined can make winters brutal.
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