AuDHD Flourishing14 Jun 2025

What AuDHDers Need - Repost

In June I'm re-posting the most popular episodes from the show while I take a step back to look at the big picture (because my monotropic brain has trouble doing that while also pumping out new content).

Original show notes:

What do AuDHDers need (beyond the obvious needs all humans have)? And why do those needs matter?

This episode covers some important ones:

Being able to engage with our interests (in a particular way)
Executive Function support, without trying to make the hardest things easy or enjoyable
Autonomy
True rest
The narrow path of just enough stimulation
Processing time
To be witnessed in just the right way
Recognition that our needs vary quite a bit day to day
Coming to terms with disability
Space and time throughout our self-discovery journey
Safe enough spaces to explore what it means to be ourself

Links mentioned:

Executive function test post if you want to ask Qs or share your experience
Executive Skills Questionnaire Revised (ESQ-R)
Unmasking Autism book (affiliate link)
Experimenting Your Way to an Extraordinary Life (course)

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Episoder(171)

You Are Not a Burden - Repost

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When the Body Simply Cannot - Repost

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25 Apr 30min

139 Alexithymia - Feeling While AuDHD

Alexithymia is common in AuDHDers, and involves having trouble identifying and communicating emotions. There are a lot of reasons this can be the case, including: interoception differenceslack of usef...

18 Apr 35min

138 Your Money Big Picture

I would guess that most AuDHDers struggle with money in one way or another. Saving or planning for the future can be particularly difficult to emotionally attach to in the same way we connect with wan...

11 Apr 29min

137 Spending and Money Unfairness

This & next week are two episodes on money & finances as a follow up to last week's interview (more from Hyperfocus here).Justice sensitivity can highlight the unfairness we often feel between our fin...

4 Apr 25min

136 Financial Therapy with Christine Hargrove

Thanks again to Hyperfocus with Rae Jacobson for sharing this interview with financial therapist Christine Hargrove. She shares ADHD-focused advice that is useful for AuDHD folks as well! And the next...

28 Mar 33min

Paper Planners & Tasks Feeling Real

I just started using a paper planner again for the first time in many years, and the coolest thing is noticing that calendared blocks of time feel more "real" to my brain when I've written them by han...

27 Mar 6min

135 Slow Processes are Frustrating

Sometimes... a process is happening, internally. It can be integration, change, growth, positive disintegration... and sometimes it's unclear. Either way, the uncertainty can be disconcerting and frus...

21 Mar 23min