Category: adhd
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How to Survive Working from Home During the School Holidays: 4 Practical Tips for Parents
Balancing work and kids at home during the summer holidays? It’s exhausting—but possible. Here are four practical tips that have helped me survive the chaos of working from home with little ones around.
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I Avoided Burnout—And Maybe You Can Too
Burnout was looming—and for once, I saw it coming. Over the past three weeks, I faced a perfect storm of stress, overwhelm, and sensory chaos… but I didn’t crash. In this post, I’m sharing the real-life strategies that helped me dodge autistic burnout, protect my mental health, and stay (mostly) functional through it all. If…
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To Push Through or Withdraw? Managing Your Child’s Stress for Long-Term Success
Knowing when to push through and when to pull back is key to supporting neurodivergent children. In this post, I share how I’ve learned to read the difference between emotional venting and true distress in my autistic and ADHD kids—and how honouring those signs has helped them thrive at school without burning out.
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Finding Balance: Routine Strategies for Autistic ADHD Minds
If you’re both autistic and ADHD, chances are you know exactly what I’m talking about: the chaotic tug-of-war between craving routine and rejecting it entirely. I’ve never coped well with schedules. Free time is a minefield – too much to do, too little focus to do it, and I often end up frozen, doing absolutely…
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The Magic of Music: Easing School Transition for Neurodivergent Children
How a music session gave my anxious preschooler confidence and calm One Thursday afternoon, I arrived at preschool to collect my youngest, E. I already knew they’d had a music workshop that day with Boogie Mites, and I was fully expecting to hear that he had refused to join in—just like every other time. But…
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Burnout on Repeat: How Autism and ADHD Fuel the Cycle
Before I knew I was autistic and had ADHD, I lived in a constant state of frustration. I couldn’t understand why I seemed to swing between being completely in control—on top of everything, organised, productive—and then suddenly hitting a wall, unable to string together a coherent thought or get out of bed for days at…
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Tidy Mind, Tidy Life: Reclaiming Order as an Autistic Adult
As a parent of autistic children and an autistic adult myself, I’ve had countless “aha!” moments over the years as I’ve recognised traits in my kids that I dismissed or misunderstood in myself as a child. One of the most striking parallels has been the profound need for order and how its absence can lead…
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Waking Up From Burnout and Battling Executive Dysfunction
For most of my adult life, I believed I was physically unwell. Diagnosis after diagnosis—chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, mystery neurological issues, and hypothyroidism—painted a bleak picture. Doctors would tell me to “just lose weight” or “eat better,” as if my crippling brain fog, exhaustion, and muscle pain would magically disappear. What they missed was the…
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“ADHD? But That’s for Boys!”—A Woman’s Journey to an Unexpected Revelation.
I NEVER would have considered even the most remote possibility that I had ADHD. I’d seen ADHD—it affected some lads at school who couldn’t sit still, shouted out in class, and generally got written off as naughty kids. And anyway, ADHD was just a parenting problem, right? RIGHT?! My first real encounter with ADHD as…
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The Power of Repetition: Turning Overexplaining Into a Parenting Superpower
Parenting is full of surprises, not least the realisation that habits you once thought of as quirks—or even flaws—can become essential tools. For me, the urge to endlessly talk through upcoming plans has long been a source of frustration for others. Whether it’s discussing kitchen layouts or dinner menus, the same topics whirl around in…
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