Checking In!
ADHD is such a funny and weird thing! I can spend MONTHS! I mean a LOT of months! Almost a year of not being able to post any articles on my website. And in one weekend I can end up hyper focusing and finishing 4 different write ups, all ready to post!
ADHDers really struggle with time management and executive functioning. As we know we are very driven with the HERE and NOW and what gives us the best dopamine rush at that moment. Which makes me sometimes think “why did I chose to interact with people and share my views on a website, something that needs a very high talent specificity using executive functioning.”
Smart move right? Well it kind of is… sort of. Of course I’m not tying to set myself up failure, or add more struggles to my already existing ones, but I am also a firm believer in building on talent. Learning new skills and making them better. So although I struggle GREATLY with executive functions and time management, I also am NOT great in any way of follow through with execution of goals. So I started a website, even though I knew this probably wasn’t the most ideal plan for me, I wanted to be able to continue to build on basic skills that I do have and to build on some new talents that maybe I don’t realize that I have.
As I work on this post, I have 2 other posts ready to go, One is on the STEPS planning (a new way to set goals that is not using the standard “smart” goals ideas) and another about self advocating. Even now, with the two I have already finished. I have more ideas running around in my head, I have one topic of creating Self Accommodation (because lets face it, the world is not really set up for neurodivergent ADHD’ers) and yet another article on ADHD -Perks! Even those articles are almost finished and already planned out, they aren’t enough for me to feel satisfied right now. I have so many more additional ideas for articles about RSD (rejection sensitive disphoria), ADHD mental MUG (how full is your Brain before you start anything else). Pie Planning (a great little way I have started to breakdown ideas and big projects), I also have one about the golden square (how the level of difficultly as well as the level of interest need to both balance to find the perfect center square. Of course none of these really make a lot of sense right now because I’m just stating topics but I hope once they are fully published they will be of great interest in those that read my page, but even with so much completed and so many more great ideas, this post I’m writing right now seems to be the only thing that matters. That’s the hyper focus again, and sometimes I have to just bank on it as quickly and for as long as I can.
So this was just a quick post, just something I had to get out and post to let anyone who is still checking in on this site to let them know…… I’m still here, and I am trying to follow through on posting as often as I can, but sometimes the brain just says simply “nope” and I try as hard as I can but I haven’t cured this problem yet. (Not sure if I ever will.)
Remember we all experience our ADHD (and any other neurodiversity) differently. So keep slaying it your way!
Sheena Shay
