I’ve lost every ID I’ve owned and broken down crying because I couldn’t find my car. Before my ADHD diagnosis, I thought I was just bad at adulting. This checklist helped me finally see the pattern.
ADHD task paralysis is a specific kind of stuck that happens when you know what you need to do, picture getting it done, and yet you just… don’t. These 5 strategies help break through that wall and get you moving.
At 24, I sat nervously in front of a screen and poured my heart out to a stranger I’d never met. It was my first telehealth session, and almost instantly, she responded, ‘You sound like you may have adult ADHD.’ I chuckled in disbelief. What she said didn’t at all match what I thought I knew.
