All The Things ADHD

LOOK WE HAVE A GUEST! That’s Kelly J. Baker (aka @kelly_j_baker on Twitter). She also has colorful hair and glasses, like us, and is also an Opinionated Lady on the Internet, like us, too! I laughed a lot during our two hours of recording. Here’s part one of three of our conversation. Come laugh with three very Opinionated Ladies on the Internet Who Also Have Brightly Colored Hair and...

Look, I don’t usually self-promote here, but, if you could: Given the current situation in the world, if you buy one of my two self-published books, I will donate the proceeds to Hope for College . Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. Today’s episode, the last of the pre-recorded ones, picks u...

I know, I know, I keep calling it Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria. But you can read a bit more about it and how it specifically impacts people with ADHD . It really was one of those moments where so much of how I reacted (and how my kids reacted) made much more sense once I found out about RSD. This episode is probably my most personal one. If you’d like to read me laying my heart out, here&...

When you’ve been unknowingly living with ADHD for as long as Aimée and I have, getting the diagnosis and then taking medication can radically shift your identity as well as how you are productive. In this episode, that’s exactly what we talk about – what is still hard or newly hard now that we have our diagnosis and are taking out medication. As always, help yourself to the trans...

Listen to us, all young and naive and not sheltering in place, confined to our homes, working remotely, trying to homeschool our kids. This, this was how S2 was supposed to start. And let this remind of a time before COVID-19, when 2020 held out hope for a new year. As opposed to *waves hands around* whatever this is. Anyway, we reflect back on what recording S1 meant to us, as well as what we wer...

Yeah, it’s existential despair time over at All The Things ADHD. But fear not, we have advice on how to get over the malaise that we’re privileged enough to be experiencing as life settles into this new normal that isn’t normal, especially when confronted with the mundane normal activities from the recent past. We’re all living in ADHD time now, folks. And we’re here...

As this little podcast that could surpasses 5k downloads, Aimée and I talk about how we’re managing working from home with ADHD and…other people in our space. From workspaces to dress challenges, we share what is working for us right now. Hopefully it will also work for you. And, maybe, we’ll start being able to actually have guests on! Get you transcript here!

So, we had a long talk about teaching and learning and Universal Design and accessibility and our pedagogical philosophies and how all of this intersects with what is happening right now, with all of our schools moving online for distance delivery. Transcript is right here !    

Hey everyone. No cover art today. Just a very special episode, the start of a series of very special episodes as we try to adapt and adopt to the ever-shifting new normal we are all experiencing. Here’s a link to the transcript . Stay safe and well everyone.

Welcome to 2020! This is our last episode of the first season of the All The Things ADHD podcast. I hope you enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed making them. In this episode, we finally conclude talking out our (ok, my) feelings about Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. I got a little emotional doing the transcript . See you for Season 2…SOMEDAY! Look below the episode for ways to subscribe! Or...

In this, the second part of our conversation about Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Aimée and I talk about the very specific academic “stuff” we’re attached to, including getting into that whole non-debate about how many books we’re supposed to have. The transcript is kinda tidy… Happy New Year, and thanks for listening! Look below the episode for ways to subscribe! Or go...

In the coldest of cold takes, but releasing just in time for the holiday gift-giving extravaganza, Lee and Aimée talk about Netflix’s reality show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. In this episode, we talk about our gut reactions to the show, as well as starting to dig into our own relationship to stuff and the places we’ve lived. Our conversation ended up lasting over 80 minutes, so Season...

(The above-quote from Aimée did in fact inspire the title of this episode.) A challenge we all face, neurotypical or not, is how to effectively work together, to collaborate, to spend time in a shared space together. For people with ADHD, it can sometimes be even more of a challenge because of how our brains process the world around us and how we work. Lee and Aimée talk about how they have change...

We literally spend 20 minutes talking about all of the open tabs on our web browsers. Listen at your own risk. NOW WITH A TRANSCRIPT! Look below the episode for ways to subscribe! Or go to Subscribe to Podcast !

…only because Gender Identity and Affective Labor as a title isn’t as catchy. But, we are also talking about what we do to help ourselves get through the day as stress-free as possible. I avoided using the word “productive” as to not allow our worth to be reduced to what we produce. Because neoliberalism and shit. If that doesn’t inspire you to give us a great rating...

Mundane tasks are the bane of the ADHD brain. Lee and Aimée discuss the struggles they both have with paying bills – not because there is no money, but because it’s just so damn repetitive and boring. And we forget. A lot. All the time. Kinda like why I’m scheduling all these posts in one shot, like a bunch of post-dated checks, ready to be cashed when they clock strikes 8am East...

In this episode we get serious about a touchy subject for a lot of people: medication and medicating ADHD. Lee and Aimée share their successes with drugs, as well as what the drugs do and do not do. We’re not doctors, this isn’t medical advice, just two people sharing their experiences. Also, there will be no drug-shaming here. NOW WITH TRANSCRIPTS! Look below the episode for ways to s...

One of the most common (mis)perceptions of people with ADHD is that we are lazy. In this episode, we tackle that perception head-on and how we aren’t, in fact, lazy at all. What are some other negative misconceptions of ADHD that you have encountered or experienced? NOW WITH A TRANSCRIPT! Look below the episode for ways to subscribe! Or go to Subscribe to Podcast ! And please leave reviews o...

We don’t want to view our ADHD diagnoses as negatives, but instead as positives, as it gives us a number of superpowers. In this episode, Lee and Aimée talk about what they are able to do  because of their ADHD. We also talk about how ADHD has made us particularly adept at social media. What’s your superpower? NOW WITH A TRANSCRIPT! Look below the episode for ways to subscribe! Or go t...

In this episode, Aimée and I address one of the most common reaction we get when we tell people that we have ADHD – doubt, because we’re “so successful.” We also share how we ended up in academia and why academia was so well-suited to us and our unique perspectives. We also talk a bit about boredom. Super-glad that I didn’t throw out the detailed recording outlines I...

In this episode, Aimée shares her diagnosis story and how Gen-X (and Gen-X women in particular) represent a “lost generation” who are, in a way, inheriting ADHD from their kids. We also talk about our tendency to overshare. We’d love to hear about your diagnosis stories, to please feel free to share them by emailing them to us at allthethingsadhd [at] gmail [dot] com or on Twitte...

In this first episode of All The Things ADHD, we start by sharing all those things we have forgotten, and share our ability to laugh at ourselves. We move on to our struggles with planning and scheduling, and then I, Lee, share my diagnosis story. Come for the laughs and digressions, stay for the advice and community. Aimée and I were able to be the most ourselves in these podcasts, and we hope th...

A year ago, Aimée Morrison and I decided to finally start recording for a podcast we had long been scheming about doing. October was the perfect month because it is #adhdawarenessmonth. Over the next 4 months, we recorded over 300 minutes of material. But, of course, because ADHD, we never got around to editing it, because neither of us was particularly interested in doing it. But, one year later,...