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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Keep two or three trustworthy places to read about ADHD and go there first. Confident, tidy explanations online are easy to find, and most of them have nobody checking them.
Look for organisations that cite their sources and say when something is uncertain, and treat a personal account as a personal account rather than as…
Explain ADHD to the child themselves, in words they can hold. Something like: your brain is brilliant at things it finds interesting and needs extra help with things it finds boring, and we are going to work out that help together.
Children build an explanation whether or not you give them one, and the one they build is usually about being bad. A short, matter of fact account,…
ADHD tends to surface at the points where life asks for more organising: a new school year with seven teachers, the first term at university, a first job, a promotion into managing other people.
The pattern is always the same. Something that was holding things together is removed, or the amount you have to run yourself goes up, and what was…
Things often seem to get worse in the weeks after a diagnosis. Usually nothing has got worse. You are simply seeing what was always there, and now you have a name to hang it on.
You will start joining things up: the lost keys, the half finished projects, the reason that job ended. It can feel like the diagnosis broke…
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