by karen | Jun 26, 2026 | ADHD & Me
As I face a significant birthday this weekend, I have been trying to explain to people around me, why I don’t enjoy or want to celebrate my own birthday. It’s not because I have trauma, from a horrible birthday, or that my family forgot my birthdays, nor...
by karen | Jun 24, 2026 | ADHD & Me
Birthdays are supposed to be fun, right? Cake, presents, messages from people you love, maybe a meal out or a little gathering. Yet for many adults with ADHD, birthdays can feel surprisingly uncomfortable, overwhelming, emotional, or even disappointing. It’s one...
by karen | Apr 30, 2026 | ADHD & Me
Funny story time: the time my husband accidentally decaffeinated me unintentionally with not the best consequences. The week was going really well. It was the week of my birthday. I had had a lovely birthday. I was feeling a ok. Then on the evening of my birthday I...
by karen | Aug 3, 2025 | ADHD & Me
I have inattentive ADHD. In 2021 I was diagnosed, and since then we have managed and viewed life understanding more about why I am the way I am. I am currently not medicated. With the agreement of my medical practitioner I self manage most symptoms and ADHD issues....
by karen | Sep 14, 2023 | ADHD & Me
If you have an ADHD brain, like I do, you may have struggled with addiction, or risky behavuoues and if your diagnosis, like mine, was later in life, and you have had a lifetime of wondering why you are more prone to certain behaviours or why you have or still...
by karen | Aug 29, 2023 | ADHD & Me
ADHD is a broad spectrum diagnosis, and comes with different ADHD types. I fall under the presentation of combined ADHD. My son also presents with some of the characteristics of both. He was diagnosed when he was 8, I was diagnosed at 45. There is a very strong...
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