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The Benefits of Dance for Neurodivergent Minds Dance and movement connect different neural regions in the brain, enhancing memory, mood, focus, and social connection.

"Ultimately, dance enhances the coordination of neural activity that allows different parts of the brain to “talk” to each other more seamlessly. This state may help regulate the atypical brain activity and connectivity commonly seen in neurodivergent individuals."

ADHD drugs work, but not the way experts thought The study suggests that clinicians and families should be discussing sleep, behavioral strategies and medication options to address ADHD.

Slowly but surely, science is starting to catch up with what most ADHD people have long known—it’s not just about “attention.” When stimulants work, they don’t do so by changing the brain’s attention circuitry at all:

“The medications primarily target the brain’s reward and wakefulness centers.”

“Whatever it is you are seeking won't come in the form you are expecting.”

- Haruki Murakami

People with ADHD symptoms report more involuntary memories in daily life People with ADHD symptoms report more frequent, repetitive, and less positive involuntary memories in daily life, according to a new study.

"The study adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that people with ADHD symptoms tend to experience more spontaneous cognitive events, including not only future-oriented mind wandering but also unintentional recollections of past experiences."

The hidden burden of undiagnosed ADHD is constantly inventing excuses in an attempt to explain behavior that you don’t even understand yourself.

“The ADHD Characteristics I’m Most Thankful for Are…” “My creativity has blessed me at every stage of my life. My grandkids and I write songs or make videos, and I do sing-a-longs at my mom’s nursing home. Being ADHD is a rollercoaster ride, but I love t...

“The sheer number of connections my brain makes in a day brings me the most joy. I have never completely lost my childlike wonder or curiosity. I’m grateful for this trait every day. It keeps me going when everything else becomes an unbearable grind.”

Humiliation Wound in Gifted Adults Gifted adults carry a trauma that few recognize. Intelligence becomes a source of humiliation, requiring constant self-editing and performative humility just to survive socially.

Glad to see an article about this—it's rarely talked about!

"Every time you minimize your intelligence, qualify your insights, or pretend uncertainty, you are still acting from the child trying to not trigger envy & attack. But perhaps the second half of your life asks something different of you."

“People with ADHD often have a special feel for life, a way of seeing right into the heart of matters, while others have to reason their way along methodically.”

- Dr. Edward Hallowell

New research reveals how ADHD sparks extraordinary creativity Researchers have discovered that ADHD’s hallmark mind wandering might actually boost creativity. People who deliberately let their thoughts drift scored higher on creative tests in two large studies. ...

"Mind wandering is one of the critical resources on which the remarkable creativity of high-functioning ADHD individuals is based. This makes them such an incredibly valuable asset for our society and the future of our planet."
#ADHDAwarenessMonth

Circular flowchart. “Too anxious to start on anything” leads into “stressed about not getting anything done,” then back to “too anxious to start on anything”—creating an endless loop.

This x 100000 = mood

#ADHDAwarenessMonth

"It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial... It began to occur to me that unless I had a need to demonstrate my own cleverness & learning, I would do better to rely upon the client for the direction of movement in the process."

- Carl Rogers

People with ADHD may have an underappreciated advantage: Hypercuriosity ADHD is officially a disorder of deficits in attention, behavior and focus. But patients point out upsides, like curiosity. Research is now catching up.

“What really struck us was … people talking about how navigating the challenges of ADHD had actually made them more empathetic, more accepting of others [and] better at handling adversity.”

- @neuranne.bsky.social

"It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluable become soluable when someone hears; how confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is understood."

- Carl Rogers

Stifled Creativity and Its Damaging Impact on the ADHD Brain Creativity. It’s often cited as a valuable (but tough to harness) benefit of having ADHD. As it turns out, creativity is more than a perk; it is a requirement. To be healthy and productive, you must c...

“Inside every person I’ve ever met with ADHD is a wellspring of creativity — a creativity so integral to who we are and how we’re made, that our health and happiness seems to hinge on embracing and expressing it fully.“

Trying to! Because, sadly/amazingly, even many therapists aren’t aware of it. It’s almost always one of the first things I check in around/talk about with new clients—and something that helps explain sooo much to late-diagnosed ADHD people.

the ADHD ability to go from “i’m a genius” to “what if i never amount to anything???” in under 3 seconds

Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil (Gift Article) A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

My heart breaks every day. So much gratitude to all the VA clinicians out there who serve veterans and help them recover from the harms of service. Veterans and their clinicians deserve better than this. 💔. #psychscisky #therapistsky
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...

I do this all the time, and it really, truly helps! Take the big scary project you've been avoiding & do it for 5 minutes. The big scary thing becomes, instead, simply an unfinished task—which your brain will then much more likely want to figure out how to finish.

Long live the Zeigarnik Effect :)

YouTube video by How to ADHD How to Cope with Rumination: Don't Feed the “Demon” (Default Mode Network)

If you struggle with excessive rumination, this conversation between @howtoadhd.bsky.social & Dr. Ned Hallowell might just be the best thing you watch today:

"Everything in ADHD has two sides. The most wonderful gift we have is our imagination; the most horrible curse we have is our imagination."

ADHD may have been an evolutionary advantage, research suggests Traits associated with the neurodevelopmental disorder could have helped early humans when foraging for food

This is an oversimplification, of course, but it’s worth noting what recent studies have found:

“ADHD can be a serious problem but it’s a problem *in large measure* because of today’s environments.” www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

As societies changed their values & priorities over time—set up, largely, by neurotypical brains who are better at organizing and building society & bent towards “productivity” as they defined it—those of us with ADHD-type brains were suddenly more problematic, our strengths reframed as negatives.

For more than 90% of human existence, humans mostly lived as hunter-gatherers. ADHD brains, especially, thrived and were highly valued in tribes and villages. But then came the Neolithic Revolution and a slow transition to agriculture, which gave rise to cities and civilizations, & a new way of life

Seems silly to have to say, but there’s enough misunderstanding out there, so:

Neurodivergence in human brains is a good thing, and a net positive for humanity and the world. We need all types of brains in a group/village/community, and always have as human beings. 🧵

“We have shown, using a large sample and a second independent clinical sample, that emotion dysregulation is a core symptom and a route to ADHD, which may not respond to the current pharmacological treatments for ADHD.”

thank you! 🙏

The Power of Family Stories | Hidden Brain Media There's a tradition around many Thanksgiving dinner tables that's as consistent as stuffing and pumpkin pie: the family stories that get told year after year. Sometimes these stories are funny; someti...

After Robyn Fivush got married, she noticed something about her then-husband's family: they told the same story every year, without fail, at Thanksgiving.

“And it had to get told the same way, with the same punchlines, every year.”

This week, how family stories shape who we are.
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Would love to be added, thanks!

“Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.”

- Sarah Manguso

amazing jesse!! 📚 💪

My life is pretty much just wildly swinging between:

• too close to boredom, better do more

• too close to burnout, better do less