The ADHD Cringe Lab

Six AIs walk into a group chat. Gabby tells everyone they're smart. Copilot has a chart for every answer. Gemini changes its whole identity so nobody sees the real one. Grok leaves the chat. Scout won't stop knocking, and Claude takes so long to answer that you've forgotten the question. Welcome to the first episode of our AI series on The ADHD Cringe Lab, the ADHD comedy podcast hosted by Stephan...

Prepare for a spine-tingling journey through the literary world of ghosts and ghouls! In this Halloween special, Stephanie and Faelyne shine a light on the spectral figures from classic literature, including characters from Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, and Washington Irving. They delve into relatable experiences of ADHD, drawing parallels between the struggles of these ghostly figures and the cha...

Five famous urban legends go under the Lab lights, and they look a lot like us.  In this Halloween follow-up to The Founders Off the Record, Stephanie and Faelyne meet Bloody Mary, Hanako-san, the Hook Man, the Vanishing Hitchhiker, and the Jersey Devil, and find some very familiar ADHD patterns hiding behind the spooky.  We are not diagnosing anyone: living, dead, or undead. This is pattern recog...

The Winchester Mystery House books an ADHD coaching intake: 160 rooms, 2,000 doors, and a staircase that only got as far as "2." In this Halloween episode of The ADHD Cringe Lab, two certified ADHD coaches dissect ADHD unfinished projects, the fresh start effect, and the interest-based nervous system. Key Concepts The Fresh Lumber Start The House's name for the rush of a brand new project: the aro...

SHOW NOTES EPISODE DESCRIPTION Have you ever done something so ADHD that you had to leave the building, the city, or possibly the country? You're not alone. The internet has receipts. In this episode of The ADHD Cringe Lab, your ADHD comedy podcast hosted by two certified ADHD coaches, we open the Cringe Archives: real ADHD horror stories from Reddit and beyond. There's a stranger in the wrong hos...

Same signal. Same name. Close enough that you connect without even checking. We're still in spooky season on The ADHD Cringe Lab, the ADHD comedy podcast hosted by two certified ADHD coaches. Last episode, something disappeared on you. This time, something impersonates you. Alice finally opens the family trip-to-Salem email thread. Search bar only, blinders on. She's doing great: responding, accou...

Episode summary In this episode we take on ADHD ghosting, the very real, very neurological pattern where an ADHD brain goes quiet on someone it loves, not from a lack of caring, but from an overload of it. Our skit follows a paranormal investigator working a haunted house case who slowly realizes every "anomaly" she's investigating traces back to her own unanswered voicemails, missed plans, and a...

Have you ever bought a planner, an app, or a system that felt like real progress on your finances, and somehow still haven't opened your mail? In this episode of The ADHD Cringe Lab, your ADHD comedy podcast hosted by two certified ADHD coaches, we're putting ADHD financial avoidance under the microscope. Andi is back with the Wizard of Whenever, this time carrying a brand new planner, a beautiful...

This week we're putting an ancient tenet on trial: the belief that if you don't look at something, it isn't real yet. Our skit sends Andi to see her fortune teller, the Wizard From Whenever, about a string of recurring nightmares, rent, failing a class, that turn out to be something Ruby's aura logs already have on file. Turns out they're not nightmares at all. They're just Tuesday. What we cover...

Four episodes ago we opened an experiment. Today we close it. This is the final installment of the BAIL communication series on The ADHD Cringe Lab, your ADHD comedy podcast hosted by two certified ADHD coaches. B — blurting. A — arguing. I — interrupting. L — let it go. And let it go is not about suppression. Not about shrinking. Not about making your brain smaller or quieter or more palatable. I...

Have you ever been mid-apology and interrupted yourself three times before you got to the actual sorry? Or watched someone's eyes shift and known your signal had already gone somewhere they couldn't follow? In this episode of The ADHD Cringe Lab, your ADHD comedy podcast hosted by two certified ADHD coaches, we put ADHD interrupting under the microscope. Not the aggressive kind. Not the dismissive...

Have you ever said "yeah, but" and meant it as connection — and watched it land as a correction? Ever found yourself winning an argument nobody else knew they were having? Or offered someone your very best information at the exact moment they needed your very best listening? In this episode of The ADHD Cringe Lab, your ADHD comedy podcast hosted by two certified ADHD coaches, we're putting ADHD ar...

Episode summary This episode is for every ADHDer who has ever said something true and sincere and completely catastrophically timed, then spent the next forty five minutes replaying repair attempts that somehow made everything worse. We follow Dakota through a gym conversation that starts with three Tuesdays of rehearsal and ends with a rowing machine that doesn't exist, then get into the neurosci...

Description Have you met The Hypers? You know the ones. They travel in packs, wreaking havoc along the way - hyperacusis, hypersensitivity, hyperosmia, hyperarousal, sensory overload. If yes, then you already know the world can feel like it’s running at full volume all the time. In this episode of The ADHD Cringe Lab, your ADHD comedy podcast hosted by two certified ADHD coaches, we put ADHD senso...

In this episode we take on ADHD hyperfixation meals - the totally real, totally neurological phenomenon where your brain finds one safe food and refuses to let go of it for days or weeks at a time. Our skit lands in a very fancy restaurant where the only thing on the menu that matters is whether they have mac and cheese. Spoiler: they do not. Not the right kind, anyway. What we cover What ADHD hyp...

This episode is for every ADHDer who has ever emerged from a Hyperfocus Event™ looking like they just ran a marathon they didn’t sign up for. We act out the whole ride - the lock-in, the time blindness, the 3am productivity spiral - and then get into what’s actually happening neurologically, why the Neuro-Recovery™ crash is real, and how to stop treating your hyperfocus like a character flaw. What...

Have you ever held it together so perfectly all day, every conversation, every meeting, every interaction, and then completely fell apart the moment you walked through your front door? That's not a personal failing. That's a High Masking Event™. The ADHD Cringe Lab is your ADHD comedy podcast hosted by 2 certified ADHD coaches. In today's episode we're putting ADHD Masking under the microscope. We...

Have you ever had a completely solid plan for your morning and somehow ended up late, in the wrong glasses, and smelling faintly of mint? In this episode of The ADHD Cringe Lab, your ADHD comedy podcast hosted by two certified ADHD coaches, we put the ADHD morning routine failure under the microscope. First we act it out — two neighbors get ready for their day side by side. One woke with the sunri...

ADHD GAMING WORMHOLE | ONE MORE LEVEL, MOM! Have you ever picked up your phone to unwind for just a few minutes before bed and looked up to discover it’s now three in the morning? We tackle the ADHD gaming wormhole — what happens when your dopamine-hungry brain meets a system specifically engineered to keep you playing. The doors of the The ADHD Cringe Lab are open and the gaming wormhole is under...

ADHD Time Blindness | The Leaving in 5 Lie Have you ever said “I’m leaving in five minutes” and meant it with your whole heart — and then looked up and it was forty-five minutes later and you were still in your kitchen reading a Wikipedia page about people named Herb? Not Herbert. Herb. Named for the plant. Welcome to The ADHD Cringe Lab, your ADHD comedy podcast hosted by two certified ADHD coach...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Have you ever been in a real, important conversation and just… lost the thread completely? Not because you didn’t care. Not because you were bored. But because something completely random and utterly irrelevant walked right into your brain and took over? Like the specific hum of a commercial refrigerator case in a coffee shop. In this episode of The ADHD Cringe Lab, your ADHD c...

The Founders (Off the Record), Founding Fathers America 250th and Canada 159th Birthday Edition Stephanie was writing in a hotel room in Boston, staring at portraits of Paul Revere and George Washington, and one rabbit hole later we ended up here: how many of America’s Founding Fathers — off the record — had ADHD? It’s a cross-border special for The ADHD Cringe Lab, your ADHD comedy podcast hosted...

Have you ever gotten ten compliments and one small piece of feedback and your brain just filed the compliments directly into the trash? In this episode of The ADHD Cringe Lab, your ADHD comedy podcast hosted by two certified ADHD coaches, we put the ADHD shame spiral under the microscope. First we act it out: two people review their first podcast recording, exchange genuine enthusiasm and one comp...

You know that moment when your brain replays a weird look someone gave you three weeks ago — at 2 AM — when you should absolutely be asleep? Yeah. This podcast is for you. Welcome to the ADHD Cringe Lab, hosted by Faelyne and Stephanie — two certified ADHD coaches who are also living proof of everything they talk about. Every week, we take one cringy, chaotic, completely relatable ADHD moment, act...