Becca Colao ADHD, Exercise, Inattentive 0 Comments
I know I do best when I workout a lot. This may mean at least 90 minutes per day. I first realized this in junior high school when I played on the volleyball team. We had practice every day after school. I remember telling my mother that I didn’t seem to have any free time […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive, Mommy 0 Comments
You’d think that hanging out with a pre-verbal human would lead to a bit of boredom, mental talking to oneself, etc. But the fact is that this is just how it always was for me, with the possible exacerbation caused by my lack of medication. I can’t take ADD meds while I’m breastfeeding. The fact […]
I’m writing to you shirtless, with a tingling leg. No, it’s not sexy. My leg is asleep because I happened to be sitting cross-legged on the floor when I realized my baby boy was hungry, so naturally I had to nurse him right then and there. I’m shirtless because when I put my clunky travel […]
A lot of people talk about using your time efficiently; about using it strategically and opportunistically. It’s an art I’ve been humbly practicing for several years. It’s an art that has been crucial to me because of my own chronic illness- which I know I have yet to talk about. Now it’s crucial because of […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Baby, Executive Function, Mommy 0 Comments
It’s a little bit hard to quantify how my functioning is since the baby came along, partly because no one expects you to see straight when you’ve just given birth, or when you’re waking up every hour with the little one.But I’ll say this: I am completely flabbergasted with the total vacuum of ability to […]
I guess you could say I have the same brain I always did- I’m wondering which of a few dozen things to post about. Because I’m sleep-deprived in a deep way, I forget the ends of my ideas before I finish thinking them through. That is, I forget the ends of my mental sentences. I […]