All The Things ADHD

Usually Aimee comes with the rage, but today it was me. There was an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that tried to limply argue that disabled students (specifically students with ADHD) are getting too many accommodations and it is a disservice to them! We ranted for about an hour of the hour and twenty minutes that this episode ended up being. I will not link to the CHE piece, but her...

We’re back! It’s season seven because these things are arbitrary like all this related to time, like what month we start school in the fall or what day of the week is the first day! This was recorded on the penultimate day of August, just before the long Labo(u)r Day weekend here in North America, and right around when those of us in the Northern Hemisphere start school again (and summ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about professionalism and how it is used to hide other, less…socially acceptable -isms, including ableism. How many of us who are neurodivergent have been told, explicitly or implicitly, that we aren’t professional enough? Otter.ai is being a pain again, so as soon as they figure out how SSL works or how to make it work consistently on their site, I&#8217...

It’s that time of the year for us academics: THE END OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR. What does that mean? It means that there is a rush of events and experiences and expectations that can be both enjoyable AND taxing to us neurodivergent folks. So Aimée and I forget to introduce ourselves, go on three different side-quests, and then talk about what we have been up to, and how we have not cured the neu...

Aimée was name-dropped in a new Taylor Swift song, but that isn’t actually what the episode is about. What it is about is thinking (quickly! This is our shortest episode that isn’t just me addressing you and wishing you a sappy new year!) about the difference between reading a book, taking hand-written notes, and what we can learn about materiality and embodiment even though we don&#82...

I swear, it’s only been a few days, and I completely forgot what we talked about for this episode. Finally, Otter.ai Insights proved useful to remind me what happened. We’ve talked about Spring Fever before, almost exactly two years ago. What’s changed? Well, we’re actually a little but better-adjusted and more attuned to how the changing of the seasons impacts us, but also...

Second verse, same as the first, a little bit louder and a little bit worse! Look, it’s Friday afternoon, GarageBand was being weird, I’ve done nothing but tedious tasks today, and it’s been a stressful week for me, personally. (Everyone is fine, it’s all fine, we’re all fine.) And I have a bad case of the Jebruaries. Anyway, I have clearly gone on four new side-quest...

The title is a mouthful. The podcast actually has some structure, with a build in cut point for part two that doesn’t involve me going incoherent. We have talked a great length about how advice meant for neurotypical people just doesn’t work for us, but how do you go about figuring out what DOES work for you and then making note of it so that you can have your own, personal self-help g...

This was supposed to be what the last episode was about, but we took WAY too long to get here (and I am desperately trying to find where Aimée finally says it in the episode, but then gave up and just said it in the intro I recorded). Crip knowledge. Learn from it! Transcript (where it is called crib knowledge!).

Well, this episode went so far off the rails that it had to be two episodes. Aimée tells the MOST AIMÉE STORY EVER, and we think about how all the things that we were told that were wrong with us maybe weren’t so wrong after all? And, again, sorry if we ignored you on Instagram. Transcript , which AI has yet to be able to figure out really what we’re saying.

Ahem. We’re back! We rested. And our rest doesn’t look like other people’s rest, but ALSO, we’re finding ourselves resting for VERY different reasons than other people seem to rest, and how we used to rest, which wasn’t very restful at all at all. I realize now that the title might be misleading, that we want you not to rest because while you rest others are stealing...

Aimée is in a MOOD. We have less time to do the things we are good at because we are being required to do more and more things that we, as neurodivergent people, are terrible at. This may be controversial, but why should have have to do things that we never had to before, were never expected to do, AND are and will continue to be bad at? While we’re focusing on higher ed, I think you will be...

Sue, this one is for you. I still didn’t look up what ADHD is in French. Which, MIRACLE. But also we’ve been busy. We talk in this episode about BIG FEELINGS. BIIIIIIIIIGGGGGG FEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS. We have them, you have them, we talk about them. We make no promises about when E4 will drop, but trust us, we’ll be back, and we try really hard to get these out in some sort of timely...

Since this is our 6th season and 85th episode, Aimée and I decided it was time to reconnect with our past selves as expressed by past episodes, and where we hope we (and you) dear listeners go in the future. We’ve even set an intention already for another episode next week! Also, we need a German word. And, sorry-not sorry there isn’t any musical intro/outro to the podcast, as I now re...

…or WE ARE BACK EVERYONE! Because time is a construct and so too are seasons of any given podcast (or tv show) this seemed like a good moment to start Season 6. Aimée shares what she did over the summer, and more importantly, what she discovered about herself and writing. Spoiler alert:…NAH, I won’t spoil it! We kept saying “we’ll put that in the show notes” and...

LOOK! Images! Show notes! Aimée and I talk about divergent thinking and how it is both great and awful, like most things when you’re neurodivergent. S4 E19: Spring Fever, ADHD-Style SIR Ken Robinson and Divergent Thinking . Wait, what else was I supposed to share in the show notes? Thirsty Traveler ? Apparently it aired on Food Network here in the States? I guess? Transcript!

Come to learn the origin of jazz hands. Stay for a useful metaphor for neurodivergence. Also, hear about my bad day. And why Aimée is wearing a baseball cap. Transcript!

Hey, we’re back! For now! And we talk about how important it is that our brains get “fuck around time.” And how work doesn’t often look like work when you are neurodivergent. Seriously, though, what do you do to rest one part of your brain so you can be “productive”? Transcript!

LOL, I was supposed to have this out last Friday and I am barely going to get it out before this Friday. A listener asked us to do an episode about how to survive college as someone who is neurodivergent. So we did that. I have nothing clever to add. Transcript!

Hey everyone, your friendly neighborhood neurodivergent podcasters here. It’s been a while, and while we didn’t make any promises as to when we were coming back after the holidays, we never intended it to be THIS long between episodes. Like we every do, but that’s life AMIRIGHT? In this episode, Aimée and I (and while we didn’t introduce ourselves at the beginning of the ep...

Hey everyone, it’s been a year for your favorite neurodivergent academic podcasters. Aimée and I did manage to get together and record one last episode for 2022. It’s about all the things we are grateful for, and we decided to release it on the longest night of the year (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere), for some light and levity on a dark day after said dark year. I realize...

Ahem. We’re back. It’s been…all entirely too much. We talk about how we are trying to reframe everything that has been happening to us and how we are reacting to it. But 2022 can still suck it. Seriously. Fuck this year. We appreciate you all for sticking with us. <3 Transcript.

In this episode, both Aimée and I share our breakdowns. There are too many things. We’ve lost many (most? all?) of our spoons. My internet even had had enough while we were recording, so apologies if Aimée is garbled at times. As I said in the show, you’re lucky you’re getting this episode at all; editing the thing is one of the too many things right now. While we’re not go...

So, it’s Friday and Monday was a holiday so I lost track of what day it was and never edited and uploaded the episode. I spent all my time working on that segue (and I literally had to google how to spell that word and not at all what I was expecting) that I didn’t do my homework for the show. This is very much a “Lee is thinking out loud to Aimée about a topic she hasn’t r...

Welcome back after a three-week hiatus! We sure put the amateur in amateur podcasters! This week, it’s about sleep and how neurodivergent people tend to put off going to sleep even when we’re exhausted as some kind of revenge. The technical term has “revenge” and “bedtime” and “procrastination” in it, maybe in that order, but maybe not because I&#821...