You start a sentence without knowing how it ends. Halfway through, you hear yourself say the thing you actually meant, and it surprises you as much as anyone else in the room. That is verbal processing. Working out what you think by saying it, rather than sorting it silently first and announcing the finished version. [...]

You get home from the day out, close the door, and something in you goes flat. Why socialising costs an ADHD or AuDHD brain more than it looks, why the replay starts at bedtime, and how to plan the recovery as carefully as the event.

Some weeks you are turning work away. Other weeks the diary is quiet and a small worried voice asks whether the phone will ever ring again. Why the feast-or-famine cycle hits ADHD brains hardest, and three things that soften the swings.

There is no shortage of productivity advice out there. Most of it is written by people whose brains work in straight lines. If you are running a business with an ADHD or AuDHD brain, you do not need another system designed for someone else. You need tools that work with the way you actually think, [...]

My phone lives on a stand in the kitchen, and the small inconvenience of having to go and get it is exactly why I use it less. Why willpower is the wrong tool for screens with an ADHD brain, and what to do instead this summer.

If you have ADHD or AuDHD and you know you need support, the next question arrives quickly. Should this be a coach or a therapist? It is a genuinely good question, and the honest answer is that they do different jobs. Plenty of people I speak to want a bit of both: coaching to understand [...]

You get to the end of the day and cannot point to a single thing you actually finished. You were busy the whole time. You barely stopped. And yet the list is longer than it was this morning, and the one thing that mattered is still sitting there, untouched. If that is a familiar feeling, [...]

Summer is the thing you looked forward to all year. So why does it feel so unsettling? Take the first free morning of the holidays. No alarm, no school run, no meeting at nine. You wake up, and it feels like it should be simple. Do one nice thing today. And somehow it is two [...]

If you have an ADHD or AuDHD brain, you have probably been told to try harder more times than you can count. Focus more. Forget less. Push through. None of that touches what is really going on, which is that your brain is built differently and has needs of its own. I came back recently [...]