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ADHD Emotional Dysregulation: Why Small Things Feel Huge

ADHD emotional dysregulation is difficulty managing how fast, how strongly and how long you feel things. Small events can trigger big reactions, moods can sw...

ADHD

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ADHD Shutdown: When Your Brain Goes Offline

An ADHD shutdown is what happens when an ADHD brain takes in more demands, input or emotion than it can process, and stops. Your mind goes blank, you cannot ...

ADHD

ADHD Meltdowns in Adults: What They Look Like and What Helps

An ADHD meltdown is a sudden emotional flood, usually anger, frustration or tears, that arrives faster and bigger than the moment calls for and is hard to st...

Anger

Autistic Anger: Why It Happens and How to Calm It

Autistic anger is anger that builds from overload, unfairness, sudden change or hours of masking, then comes out once your capacity runs out. It often looks ...

ADHD

ADHD Anger and Rage in Adults: Why It Comes Fast and What Helps

ADHD anger is anger that comes on fast and hard because ADHD affects the brakes on emotion, not just on attention. Research calls it emotional impulsivity. T...

Autism

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Autistic Job Interviews: Disclosure, Scripts and Adjustments

Autistic job interviews go better when you ask for adjustments, such as questions in advance, a quiet room, time to think and the option to answer in writing...

Autism

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Best Books for Autistic Adults (Chosen by Autistic Adults)

The best books for autistic adults are written by autistic people. Start with Untypical by Pete Wharmby if you were diagnosed late, Taking Off the Mask by Ha...

ADHD

ADHD Tax: What It Costs and How to Cut It

ADHD tax is the extra money, time, and stress ADHD adults pay because of how their brains handle time, memory, and impulses: late fees, forgotten subscriptio...

ADHD

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Phone Anxiety: Why Calls Are So Hard for Autistic and ADHD Adults

Phone anxiety is dread, stress, or avoidance around making or answering phone calls. Many autistic and ADHD adults have it because a call strips away what ma...