
Women With Attention Deficit Disorder

Many creative people with AD/HD find it difficult to pull all their ideas together in an organized, logical, linear manner, especially in written form. Many have an extremely difficult time creating structure or a skeleton on which to build their ideas, thus leading many to overwork. They often have to spend many more hours behind the scenes to pul
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To prevent hearing, “You’re not good enough,” they’ll keep saying yes for even a morsel of good feedback.
Sari Solden • Women With Attention Deficit Disorder
She feels a need to protect herself, both from bombarding stimulation as well as from feeling wounds to her vulnerable self-image that she has developed. She does this through hiding and separating from relationships.
Sari Solden • Women With Attention Deficit Disorder
Yet when the friend is no longer present, the woman with AD/HD cannot always hold onto the intensity of that emotional experience, or even to its memory. In her friend’s absence, a woman with AD/HD often becomes immersed in urgent-seeming issues, which all but obliterate thoughts of her friend. Moved to a back burner, the friend, however treasured,
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Often it means that they can’t think of what to do so they might not be able to act at all, or, as Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo say in You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! (1995), they might experience a “paralysis of will” (pg. 65).
Sari Solden • Women With Attention Deficit Disorder
People with AD/HD need high levels of stimulation in order to focus. The brain’s neurotransmitters, those information messengers, aren’t functioning efficiently or consistently. It is during these routine tasks without any high stimulation that one becomes day-dreamy, unfocused, and unproductive.
Sari Solden • Women With Attention Deficit Disorder
“distorted sense of how one’s body moves in space in relationship to other objects’ (pg. 60). This can add to the organizational difficulties of individuals with AD/HD.
Sari Solden • Women With Attention Deficit Disorder
Because of this she may push people away instead of setting limits that actually would allow her to grow closer to people, a goal which is often her true desire.
Sari Solden • Women With Attention Deficit Disorder
She has no pride in her home or appearance