Areas › Focus, starting, and ADHD › Feelings and focus

When someone has gone flat, the question is not what they ought to be doing. It is what still has any life in it for them, however small or unimpressive, and then how to get more of that.

Activities handed out from the outside do not lift much. Someone who brightens talking about their car, or a cousin, or a game has just given you the material. Two other things matter here. Saying plainly that feeling different is not a fault, and finding out what the family understands about neurodiversity, since that often decides whether home is a place of support or of shame.

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