Pause for an Announcement: I’ll be participating in the ADHD Awareness Marathon next week in honor of ADHD Awareness Week. Here’s the blurb: Get your ADD and ADHD questions answered for free during the ADHD Awareness Marathon September 14th-20th.You will have the choice of submitting your questions by: * Telephone * Electronic Message […]
As I keep saying, flexible structure. Flexible structure goes with my own health challenges- I can’t always predict what I can do, so minimizing the fixed structure is useful- despite what they say about routine and structure being right for people with ADHD. This is something I’ve struggled with over and over again. Ad nauseum. […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive, Memory, Mommy 0 Comments
I had a little bit of a breakdown the other day. I had the intention of posting several times a week, and I couldn’t think of anything to write about. It felt like a writer’s block kinda thing, if I thought of myself as a writer. But I know that in all creative pursuits, it’s […]
I recently returned from Montana. My husband was working at the National Folk Festival in Butte, and we attached a vacation to that trip. I’ve never spent time in the Rockies before and I have to say that it is in some ways culturally more foreign for me from most places I’ve been. During the […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive 4 Comments
I want to talk about an inattentive experience I’m having today. It’s been a long while, luckily, since I’ve dealt with this one, but I must have just the right mix of fatigue, estrogen (big effect on the AD/HD), and piles of stuff to do. From working with my clients I think it’s an experience […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive 0 Comments
Thanks to Pete Quily and his blog for bringing my attention to this nice little video clip on WebMD about ADHD, which you can find here. This clip starts out showing ADHD boys with hyperactivity, but then talks about, to paraphrase Tom Brown in the video, girls not getting diagnosed because they don’t make enough […]
