Everyday life, executive function, emotional load, and learning challenges.
Today, I misjudged my aim while reaching for the printer and collided with the corner of the desk, forehead first. I screamed out, it hurt bad. I’m grateful it didn’t collide with my eye. At first, I thought it was just a minor bump. But then came the headache, nausea, and a peculiar foggy feeling….
All I wanted to do was buy a couple of extra photo credits. You know, one of those low-stakes parenting decisions. No drama. Quick scroll, click, done. But instead, I found myself in a deep and thoughtful analysis complete with regret forecasting, memory preservation urgency, and minor existential dread. So… classic Tuesday. It started with…
I used to think I was just burnt out. But sometimes, I wasn’t exhausted—I felt frozen. That stuck, drained feeling? It turns out there’s a difference between ADHD paralysis vs burnout, and I didn’t know which one I was living through. Staring at a to-do list, knowing exactly what needed to happen next, and still…
I don’t remember exactly when decision-making started feeling so hard. It’s not that I can’t make decisions—I’ve done it for years in professional settings. I don’t remember exactly when ADHD decision fatigue started creeping into my life. I’ve made plenty of big decisions at work—but in my personal life? It’s like wading through mud most…
Looking back, I was already compensating for time struggles — I just didn’t realise it. But after I became a mum, the cracks started showing. The routines, the unpredictability, the sheer number of moving parts — everything about parenting made time blindness harder to hide. That’s when I started feeling like I was failing at…