With ADHD you HAVE to be your own advocate!
No two cases of ADHD are identical, and along the way there may be other complicating health factors that make life even harder.
I share my story to inspire you to become your own health advocate, so you can understand no one will do as good a job as you will.
This means:
- educating yourself about ADHD and understanding how your symptoms manifest.
- understanding your legal rights in a workplace.
- seeking out coping mechanisms that help you get around your executive functioning deficits.
- keeping track of what works and what doesn’t work for you.
- speaking up when you don’t understand things.
- going the extra step to prepare to make the most out of meetings, appointments or otherwise.
- using your calendar or other scheduling tools.
Remember, there’s no shame here because this is how you were born.
You can sit around all day and wonder why your life is so hard, or you can figure out what works for you and live a better life.
You get to make the choice.
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Part One of a Six Part series on neurodivergent sleep.
I suspect my fascination with sleep science largely comes from the fact that I have had a lifelong struggle with sleep.
As a child, I had terrible night terrors that would wake me up screaming, or I’d be out about the house, adventuring on one of my sleepwalking adventures.
Insomnia has always been my companion during big life transitions. After the birth of my children, I experienced insomnia, and despite whatever I did, I could not “sleep when the baby slept.”
My relationship with sleep and daytime sleepiness has been a lifelong struggle. Until I began studying the overlap between neurodivergence and sleep, it never occurred to me that my lifelong sleep struggles may be a sign of my neurotype! Turns out that with my late-in-life Autism-ADHD discovery, my sleep mysteries are solved.
And while my sleep patterns are far from perfect, I have learned some powerful tools along the way to help me get back on track when I’m in the middle of an insomnia loop.
I'll be sharing some of my favorite sleep resources (as well as their limitations for ND people) as we go through this series.
For a full deep dive, check out my blog post that goes with this post (linked in stories), where I go into much more detail, or check out my sleep workbook (available in the link in bio, Patreon, and on the website).
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🌈 Dr. Neff
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