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Jun 21 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
I'm neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research.
Most regulation advice becomes impractical if you're not alone.
Here are 13 micro-resets you can do during meetings, on shift, with the kids, mid-task - nobody around you will even notice:
1. Press your tongue to the roof of your mouth, then release.
Why it works:
It's a small, deliberate physical action that interrupts tension and gives your system a tiny reset point.
How:
Press gently, hold a second, release. You can do it mid-conversation and no one will know.
Jun 20 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
5 SIGNS YOUR TEMPER IS ACTUALLY ADHD:
1. You go from calm to angry incredibly fast — Small frustrations can trigger emotions that feel much bigger than the situation itself.
Jun 20 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
I’m neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research.
Here are 13 subtle signs your body needs support, not more discipline:
1. You want people around you and you want them gone — at the same time.
That’s often social need + social overload at the same time.
Try this:
Reduce the input, not the connection. Ask for:
- a shorter hang
- one person instead of a group
- a walk instead of a loud place
- parallel time instead of constant talking
Jun 17 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
THE ADHD STUFF AT WORK THAT EVERYONE QUIETLY READS AS AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM.
This has cost people promotions, references, whole careers. Not the work itself. The misread of it.
Save this. Number 7 has ended more careers than bad performance ever has, and I'm not exaggerating.
1. You say nothing in the meeting, then send the actual good idea on Slack at 11:57pm.
They think you're checked out. Not a team player.
But you can't think and perform at the same time, live, in a room, with everyone looking. The idea was always there. The meeting format just ambushed it before it could load.
Jun 17 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
People with ADHD have a gift no one talks about:
Pattern recognition.
You spot dots before others even realize they exist.
You predict shifts before anyone speaks.
It’s not a glitch.
It’s instinct.
Here’s how it works and how to use it as an advantage:
Pattern recognition is your built-in radar.
Not taught.
Not trained.
Just felt.
ADHD brains don’t think linearly
They feel in layers.
You track undercurrents others don’t notice.
Jun 15 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
🔟 signs that your body urgently needs to recover from chronic stress (and you don't realize it)
1. Waking up between 2 and 4 a.m.
This is usually a sign of excessive stress caused by a cortisol spike in the middle of the night.
You might feel more awake at that hour than during the day, even if you felt tired and lacking in concentration beforehand.
This happens when your body remains in fight-or-flight mode instead of recovering.
Jun 15 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
I'm neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research.
Here are 10 ways to make health habits actually work when your capacity changes every day:
(hang this on your fridge)
1. Build low, medium, and high versions of every habit.
A workout doesn't have to be all or nothing.
10 min, 20 minutes, or a full session — same identity, different demand depending on what the day actually has left in it.
The version you do on a hard day is what keeps the habit alive.
Jun 13 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Welcome to the Museum of the ADHD Home.
Every house has the same exhibits. Nobody talks about them. Today we're doing the full tour.
Admission is free. You've been paying for it your whole life.
EXHIBIT A: The Chair.
Not dirty laundry. Not clean laundry. A third, secret category of clothes that lives on the chair.
Curators believe the pile dates back to 2019. It has survived three "this weekend I'm dealing with it" attempts. It will outlive us all.
Jun 8 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
OMG!! I just finished talking with an ADHD teen.
The way they described executive dysfunction
made the entire room go silent.
They said:
“It’s not that I don’t WANT to do things…
it’s that my brain won’t fully let me start.”
Not physically stuck.
Mentally stuck.
Like:
• a pause button that never releases
• invisible resistance
• watching yourself freeze in real time
while fully aware the whole time.
Jun 8 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
During one session in my clinic, a 17-year-old ADHD teen explained executive dysfunction better than most textbooks I've read.
1. They said:
"I don't have trouble doing the task. I have trouble entering the task."
That sentence immediately got everyone's attention.
Jun 8 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
ADHD + Perimenopause = A Dopamine Crisis (No One Warned Us)
Your ADHD isn’t “getting worse.”
You’re losing dopamine every single month - and no one told you why.
ADHD + perimenopause is a chemical hijack. Here’s how it happens (and how to fix it). 🧵👇
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Estrogen controls dopamine. When estrogen drops, so does your dopamine.
That means:
•Forgetting words mid-sentence.
•Constant overwhelm.
•Losing focus on things you actually care about.
🧵👇
Jun 6 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
It took me years of working with ADHD teens to realize what I'm about to tell you in 2 minutes.
Most ADHD behavior makes a lot more sense once you stop looking at the behavior itself:
1. Most adults focus on what they can see.
OMG! I just walked out of a session with an ADHD teen
the way they described executive dysfunction was impossible to forget.
1. They said:
"It's like being trapped behind a sheet of glass."
You can see exactly what needs to happen.
You just can't seem to reach it.
Jun 1 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Most people think it's just “being easily distracted.”
But it's actually a complex neurological condition with strengths no one talks about.
8 little-known truths about ADHD everyone should know: 1. ADHD isn't a deficit of attention, it's a dysregulation of it
People with ADHD don't lack attention.
They struggle to control what they pay attention to & when.
This is why they can hyperfocus for hours on things they love…
& completely ignore everything else
May 31 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
I'm a neurodivergent health research advisor with a PhD.
Here are 14 life-changing ND accommodations that are stupid-simple but way too underused:
1. Listen to fast music during tasks you want to finish quickly (shopping, cleaning, getting ready, walking to the gym). Your body follows rhythm faster than your mind follows intention.
2. Buy the version of food you’ll actually eat.
