Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Relationships are hard

27 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Someone with ADHD describes feeling misunderstood in conversations and withdrawing from people, until finding NDhive, a community where they can recharge socially and be themselves without masking.

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Relationships with ADHD are really hard to navigate, and a lot of the time when we're in the real world and having these conversations, we can really feel misunderstood by a lot of people. And that makes it even harder for us to keep up that social resiliency and keep going, which then leads us to be more withdrawn. Before ND Hive, I really preferred to be alone unless it was around people that I knew wouldn't judge me. But I also have a lot of ADHD friends, so I typically tried to just stay around them, and everyone else I would just Not be my full self. But now that I have NDhive, I have a place to go all the time where I know I can fill my cup up for social energy and I can interact with people who I know love me just the way I am. NDhive isn't just a productivity app, it's so much more. It's my home. So if you're a neurodivergent bee who's lost, come home to the hive.