Neil Petersen
For many of us with ADHD, school was not our happy place. Personally, if you want to see the worst side of my ADHD symptoms, just do the following: stick me in a classroom, ask me to listen to a 1-hour lecture, and then give me an exam about it. Yet despite my ambivalence about school for most...
Neil Petersen
Happy October! October isn’t just any month … it’s ADHD awareness month! So you can bet this month the ADaptHD newsletter will be bringing you one study, one news article, and one coping tip. Study of the month: ADHD in childhood usually becomes ADHD in adulthood Finding a hobby you love...
Neil Petersen
There’s something about screen time that can get away from you. You watch an episode on Netflix, and it’s so easy to continue into another episode after that. You look something up online, which leads you to click a link, and then another. Just five more minutes of browsing the internet,...
Neil Petersen
Learning a language opens up exciting new possibilities. A new way of seeing the world, a new way of interacting with people, a new cultural universe to enjoy. Yet learning a language is also the quintessential hobby that people start but then drop. Why? Probably because it takes so much...
Neil Petersen
ADHD doesn’t change, but our understanding of it evolves, and so do our methods of spreading awareness. This month’s ADHD news is a great example of that. We’ve got a study shining light on an underexplored symptom of ADHD, and an article describing the very 2021 experience of finding ADHD via...