DIML working east coast hours in Oregon! • #dayinmylife #adhd #nyctherapist #womenwithadhd

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Hills I will die on as an AuDHD therapist who works with high-achieving women. 1. ADHD medication is a tool, not a last resort 2. Late diagnosis is a systems failure, not a personal one 3. Perfectionism is a coping mechanism, not a personality trait 4.Acceptance is not giving

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Things that make perfect sense when you’re a Neurodivergent Baddie

If you felt personally attacked by at least three of these, hi 👋 same. The AuDHD experience is genuinely its own thing and it doesn't always fit neatly into what people describe for ADHD or autism separately. Both can be true, and both can contradict each other, constantly. Which one hit the hard

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This is one of the most common points of confusion I see, and honestly it makes sense. From the outside, some behaviors can look almost identical. The difference lives in what's happening on the inside. One thing worth adding: the co-occurrence piece is significant and often underestimated. A lot

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#onthisday #autism #adhd #audhd

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The period right after a diagnosis is genuinely strange. There's no orientation. No one hands you a plan. You just know this new thing about yourself and then go back to your regular Tuesday. A lot of people I work with describe it as feeling like they're holding something fragile and not quite su

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Things I enjoy about being ADHD

The ADHD conversation online is often focused on what's hard, and a lot of it genuinely is. But I've been thinking about the parts of my brain I would actually miss if I could turn them off. It took me a long time to get here. For a while, listing the "good parts" felt like something people did to

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Things my ADHD nervous system requires to function

AuDHD wellness routine, except it took me years to figure out that this many moving parts wasn't high maintenance, it was just what my nervous system actually needs to function. The list keeps growing and honestly I have made peace with that. Follow for more real life AuDHD content. #AuDHD #N

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ADHD friendships, genuinely one of the most underrated parts of being neurodivergent. There is something that happens when two ADHD brains are in a conversation together where the usual social rules just stop applying. No one is tracking whether you finished your thought. No one is bothered by the

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Audhd Perfectionism

#onthisday #perfectionism #masking #audhd #justrightocd

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Replying to @CK Autistic traits and human experiences, the overlap is real and it's also one of the main reasons autism in women gets missed for so long. "Everyone feels that way sometimes" is technically true for a lot of individual traits. What it doesn't account for is the frequency, the intens

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Autistic meltdowns and shutdowns, two stress responses that come from the same place but look completely different from the outside. Meltdowns tend to get more attention because they are visible. Shutdowns are just as significant but much easier to miss, which means they often go unrecognized and

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#onthisday #adhd #adhdinwomen #depression #audhd

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Accepting Clients in NY and FL

#onthisday #adhd #anxiety #audhd #therapy

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Autism vs. Social Anxiety: why they can look the same but are completely different.

Autism and social anxiety, two of the most commonly conflated experiences I see, both in my clinical work and in my own life. The behavior on the surface can look identical. Avoiding eye contact, rehearsing conversations, leaving social situations feeling completely wiped out. What differs is what

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#onthisday #adhd #adhdinwomen #misdiagnosed #NeurodivergentWomen

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Things I actually struggle with as an AuDHD person

AuDHD in women, specifically the part where you are highly capable and genuinely struggling at the same time, is something I don't think gets talked about honestly enough. The paradox that shows up most for me is being someone who thinks deeply about how to support my own brain while also being th

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AuDHD hyperfixations and special interests: for a long time I assumed every intense interest I had would eventually fade, because so many of them did. What I didn't have language for was that some of my longest standing interests weren't hyperfixations at all. They were doing something different fo

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Autistic burnout, specifically in women, is still so misunderstood, even by clinicians who work with neurodivergent people. A lot of what I described in this video gets written off as depression, introversion, or just having a hard week. And sometimes those things are true too. But burnout in auti

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Permanent subtitles 🙃👀 #audhd #autistic #adhd #subtitles

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Bailey Pilant | ADHD Therapist