I’ve been thinking about writing. In my mind, I sit down at the computer and write a post. I’ve been doing that a lot lately, with writing, and doing other things. This is one of the ADD-ish things that I’ve been experiencing more during my pregnancy. It’s a blast from the past; in the worst […]
In my last post, I mentioned putting some music on to have in the background while I was working. I thought I’d talk a little about which music works. Amazingly, this is yet another area where people have their shoulds. They tell you which music helps you to concentrate, and which is distracting, or that […]
I’ve set a timer to write this post. Actually, since I’m writing on my husband’s computer, I just installed a google app to time me for twenty minutes. Setting a timer is one of those magic tricks to keep us on task. As I’ve explained in earlier posts, off my meds, pregnant, my brain is […]
Ah, what a relief to read articles about people thinking my way about things– trying to relieve us all of the burden and patronizing attitude that we should just feel better about things, so they’ll be better. In ADD land, we talk a lot about how ADD is a way of being, a different way […]
Check out this roundup of web apps for students over at read/write web! Try some note-taking or mindmapping apps for me and tell me how they work for you!
The most strenuous executive function challenge I think, is when I’m trying to make a decision but I’ve got this tree going with many many branches, all apparently equally valid, and I’m just sitting there trying to reason my way into flipping a switch to go down one of them. But I can’t. The switch-flipper […]
