Danielle Ralston discusses how people with ADHD succeed by working with their strengths instead of fighting their wiring. She covers adaptive strategies like body doubling for low-motivation days and reframing what failure actually means.
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Well, and the understanding, or I should say the stigma out there for ADHD is that you can't get things done, you can't function. And so therefore there is that stigma of, well, how can they be successful if they have ADHD or if they have AuDHD? But in reality is we have the capability of doing things differently and we step into those strengths and we look at our weaknesses. And we say, okay, how can we adjust that so it's not such a rough thing? One way is body doubling. By showing up to body doubling in my worst days, in my most confused days, on my most chaotic days, which are almost always chaotic.