ADHD Strategies

2022 · Session 17 of 57 · Full transcript

ADHD Strategies

Yawanda · now playing

One of my strategies around that have been since I was a child observing people really closely, but that also ties in my autistic self. Observing people, observing all the social nuances of interaction, what was considered proper civil interaction, and it has helped me become a really polite person. I have loads of great interpersonal skills. I want to get along with anybody because I kind of, like, have a gift to understand the pulse of what makes people tick. I'm looking at them and observing them. That's been one of my ADHD strategies.

Nicola Harrington · now playing

Spare toiletries in my handbag, so, like, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorants for when I forget to do that before I leave the house. That's something that I end up doing. Know it's another strategy. We have a bowl of keys by the front door. That's where the keys go. They must stay in the bowl, and they've all got fobs on them as well, electronic fobs in case we lose them because that's a regular occurrence, in our house. And I guess, birthdays, was my another one is that I have a list of birthdays on my fridge. Nothing else. Just a list of my friends' family's birthdays.

Nicola Harrington · now playing

So every time I go to the fridge, I check and look at the list and double check whether it's somebody's birthday. I mean, I can have it on my app on my phone. If I see it and then it's gone, I've forgotten about it. So that list lives on the fridge, and I'm glad I'm now out of the cycle of children's birthday parties, because I would be the mom who is, basically buying the present on the way to the birthday party and wrapping it in the car park, writing the card out, and buying sellotape and everything to wrap the present five minutes before and invariably getting the wrong time for the party, and we have turned up at the end of parties in the past. So, yeah, I'm glad I'm out of that spin of parties.

Nicola Harrington · now playing

I think I could go on a bit there, kind of, I guess, the things that I do regularly, like, on a daily basis.