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Five More Weird Things I Do Daily With AuDHD
More confessions from my chaotic AuDHD brain (and how I make them work for me)
I've never really understood why I do things the way I do.
For as long as I can remember, I have felt different—weird, if you will. I struggled to stay focused and relate to others in school and work.
As an adult, I built a writing career, business, wrote a book, and continued to compete in sports while hiding debilitating burnout and social struggles.
And no matter how much I succeeded, I felt no one liked or understood me because I didn't like or understand myself.
Then I got rediagnosed with ADHD at 31 (I had been diagnosed once before at 11 apparently — news to me), and things started to come into focus. I have spent the last few years researching my ADHD and realized that I most likely also have autism, and began to identify as AuDHD.
In the jigsaw of my life, ADHD provided the edge pieces that framed how my brain worked, but autism filled in the middle of the puzzle, completing the picture of who I am.
The truth is, having ADHD and/or autism means we have a brain that is divergent from that of most people, with an altered structure and different ways of processing.
