“You’re so easy. You’re low maintenance.” It sounds like a compliment — but for ADHDers, it’s often a signal that you’ve been hiding your needs so well that nobody knows you have them. Pete and Nikki unpack why striving to be low maintenance is one of the most costly masking strategies in the ADHD playbook.
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That’s right, we wrote a book! We’re incredibly proud of it and what it represents of our experience working with—and living with—ADHD. Our hope is that you find yourself on these pages, and that your reflections as you read it lead you down a path of joy, insight, discovery, and structure as you continue to refine how you plan for the most important things in your life.
“You’re so easy. You’re low maintenance.” It sounds like a compliment — but for ADHDers, it’s often a signal that you’ve been hiding your needs so well that nobody knows you have them. Pete and Nikki unpack why striving to be low maintenance is one of the most costly masking strategies in the ADHD playbook.
You’ve tried connecting tasks to meaning and designing your environment—but what happens when you’re still stuck? James Ochoa helps us understand what’s really happening beneath the surface when motivation strategies aren’t enough.
When your emotional tank is empty, your ADHD brain doesn’t need a five-step plan—it needs a reset. Join us as we explore why depletion makes emotions harder to manage and share sensory-based strategies that actually work when you can’t regulate yet.
Pete and Nikki kick off the new season by naming the thing nobody wants to put on a vision board: the post-holiday crash.