All The Things ADHD

Aimee and I are talking about ways in which people try to be allies but fall short, and how to have productive conversations, nay disagreements with neurodivergents. We actually did this episode in one sitting and it isn’t 3hrs long, so celebrate our ability to manage our time and topic! We haz transcript .

Some things about the Fall 2021 semester aren’t all bad. And so we celebrate our triumphs, not only our challenges. Like, did you know Aimée is an AMAZING teacher? What does it mean to get back to doing the things that you love and are AMAZING at? Also, how great is it that we’re back? Try to read at the speed we talk!

We’re back, and we’re talking about how we’re coping with re-entry into a world that is desperately trying to convince itself that the pandemic is over when…NOPE. Between kids going back to school and activities, the aftermath of a summer move, and physically returning to the office and the classroom… It’s a lot. But, there’s also a lot of laughter. TRANSC...

I didn’t mean to take a screenshot while Aimée had her eyes closed, but here we are in totally unfamiliar surroundings. I moved and then had a breakdown and talk about it. This is our last episode of Season 3, as we both are, well, at our limits and going to take some much-needed vacations. Also, the semester is starting soon (where TF did summer go?). So, we made it extra-long. I also didn&...

Part two of our conversation about being in a relationship with someone who has ADHD/is otherwise neurodivergent. Aimée and I have been in this podcasting relationship for almost three year! THREE YEARS! Three years where, seriously, just about ALL THE THINGS happened. I don’t know where I am going with this. We made it work? I am in the middle of moving. We bought a house. Probably will tal...

In this episode, Aimée and I give relationship advice, prompted by a listener question sent to us via email. I am not as good as she is at giving the advice. But I do read and answer the emails. So, there’s that! And, I managed to get this up and ready to go on time (but barely!), so there’s that, too. Transcript!  

Three time’s a charm? This is the last part of our conversation, and our most honest and vulnerable. The message has always been that we should be the size and shape and much-ness that everyone else expects, but then when we aren’t, and we are too much, well, it feels awful. Love to you if you have ever felt or are feeling this way. You are not too much, and especially not too much tro...

Somehow there wasn’t a moment on total incoherence on my part, so I had to use my actual best judgement on when to cut these episodes. Although, I do still fill air with nonsense words while my brain spins and tries to find something to hold on to and make words. Whew. More too-muchness in the transcription .

It’s been (counts on fingers), 40 episodes of our show, and we haven’t even talked about the one ADHD trait that inspired our show’s title: that we are, well, A LOT. We have too many ideas, too many words, too much information, and no way to really filter, access, or limit those overabundance of things. So, Aimée and I will spend the next (checks calendar), three episodes talking...

HA! YOU ARE WELCOME FOR THAT PARTICULAR EARWORM! Early 1990s dance was was the BEST, come at me. Anyway, Aimée and I continue our conversation about movement and exercise and sports and everything like that. Get your transcript right here !

So this is a really REALLY specific Canadian reference. There was an interstitial show called “ BodyBreak ” in the late 80s/early 90s that encouraged exercise and movement for healthy living. My God, I just fell down this YouTube wormhole . They have a whole freaking channel. I had no idea they were still making these. Anyway, today and next week, Aimée and I are talking about movement...

CW: Food, diet culture. This is Part II of our conversation about good and eating and ADHD. But there are multiple asides first, about picking and feeling feelings about this podcast and all of you. I promised show notes in the episode, so here you go: The tweet that led to my first public admission that I, too, am a picker, by Dr. Zoë Ayers . The episode of Hear to Slay, Fat is Not a Feeling, whe...

CW: food, diet culture, weight. This is an episode topic that I’ve wanted to do for a while. We do out best to have a hard conversation about food, eating, medication, stigma, and shame in way that is open, honest, and kind. But as Aimée says at the beginning of the episode, if this isn’t a conversation you are ready to have or listen to, please come back in two weeks (as always, there...

This is the second part of our conversation on transitions, and sometimes we just feel stuck. And it sucks. So we laugh at ourselves, including building in forgetting to eat so that we remember to end the podcast recording, or else we would get (pleasantly) stuck talking and talking and talking and talking… Sorry if the intro is a little weird. It’s been a week. Please enjoy a transcri...

Transitions. Why are the so freaking *hard* for those of us with ADHD? From being chronically late to unable to start projects to just not showering (guilty!), we all struggle moving from one thing to the next. Aimée and I spend the next two episodes talking about our own struggles with transitions and what we do to “trick” ourselves into actually getting ish done. ADHD brains, amirigh...

Part deux of our conversation about rest. Stick around to the very end when we get really, really silly. And how TF is it the last day of April already? Transcript.

Yeah, I put REST in all-caps because it’s the thing that many of us, but especially those of us with ADHD are bad at. Maybe this image that crossed my social media view after we had recorded this episode sounds familiar, but it is also literally what Aimée describes early in the episode. The image reads: “Shoutout to everyone who simply cannot work at an even, steady pace, and instead...

In part two our our discussions about inclusivity in the workplace, Aimée and I talk about how to have the hard conversations around accommodations, inclusivity, and building trust. Spoiler alert: we don’t have an easy answer, but if we don’t trust one another, then nothing else will really matter. Still no idea where my template for the episode art went. But I still have transcripts .

In this episode, in honor of us recording it on April 2, which was Autism Awareness Day, we discuss this year’s theme which was inclusivity (which my spell-check doesn’t even recognize as a word, so that should tell you something). We talk about what inclusivity could look like moving forward, post-pandemic, when we return to “normal” but normal was never normal for those o...

Ok, the title of this episode is a bit of a misnomer because we only really talk about that fact (THAT OUR LITTLE PODCAST HAS BEEN DOWLOADED OVER TWENTY THOUSAND TIMES!) at the end. The majority of the podcast is about the hobbies we picked up, or started up again, during the pandemic. But seriously. 20k. This means the world to both of us. Thank you all for listening and emailing and writing and...

That’s right, folks, we’re back! COVID couldn’t keep the two of us down forever! In this episode we talk about how we (and our families) have been coping during the pandemic. We talk over each other a lot. It shows in the transcript . Aimée and I (Lee) are so happy to be together again, talking to each other, and talking to you, too. And I SWEAR I turned the metronome off this ti...

Of course on such an important topic, I would forget to turn off the metronome function in GarageBand while editing the file. I’ve corrected it and so now there is no more annoying rhythmic tapping/clicking. Apologies. This episode is for all of our white neurodivergent listeners. We should have opened the podcast with that, but I’ll say it here. Aimée and I have an awkward, imperfect,...

*Note: We recorded this episode and scheduled to publish it before the world was set aflame. We encourage you to read anti-racist reading lists , as well as to donate to anti-racist causes locally ( in Canada and in the USA ). We are thinking of our own response, in terms of how to participate in the protests as neurodivergent individuals. But until then, please enjoy the regularly-scheduled episo...

You ever hate something that everyone else raves about, like loud parties or, IDK, Las Vegas? You’ve come to right place, where quiet fun is celebrated, and we can admit, in a safe space, that we’re not the problem if we think something isn’t as awesome as everyone else does. I am, however, on team LOUD FUN. Big thanks to Kelly for talking with us, and you’re welcome back a...

I basically got this shirt immediately after recording these episodes (thanks FB algorithm for listening in and suggesting this shirt to buy!). Kelly is back again, and we keep talking about how we’re, well, weird. But that’s ok. We’re reclaiming the word for ourselves, and celebrating our neurodiversity. TRANSCRIPTS!