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 | Oct 19, 2025 | Mental Health
(This is what the virus that causes most stomach bugs looks like. Fairly innocent and innocuous until it hits your system and makes you ill!) No one likes the stomach bug. No one enjoys when it lurches it’s nasty way into your system, and makes you ill, and...
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...
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