The Rewards of Connection – Building Strong Adult Friendships with ADHD
Making friends as an adults with ADHD can be challenging. Here are strategies to help you build strong and enduring friendships.
Avoiding Toxic Friendships When You Have ADHD
ADHD can make you more vulnerable to toxic friendships. Here’s why, what to watch out for, and strategies for building healthy friendships.
Overcome Your ADHD Inner Critic
ADHD can amplify the impact of negative self-talk. Here are tips to avoid becoming a victim of your ADHD inner critic.
When You Have ADHD and Need Motivation, Turn Your Life into a Game
If you have ADHD, you know how hard it can be to motivate yourself to do those boring but necessary tasks. Intrinsic motivation can be tough, and it can be difficult to find the right external motivation that works for you. Gamifying your life might just be the answer. Gamification can make life with ADHD easier by providing the boost of external motivation you might need to get things done.
Helping Your ADHD Child Develop Stronger Empathy
Children with ADHD can be just as caring as other kids. Their lack of impulse control and inattentiveness around other people can make it appear as if they don’t care what others think, feel or say. There are a number of things you can do to help strengthen empathy in your ADHD child.
Becoming a Better Listener When You Have ADHD
For adults with ADHD, listening can be a challenge. Inattention and being easily distracted are two of the symptoms of ADHD that make focusing on a conversation or a lecture doubly difficult. Simple strategies, combined with practice and greater awareness, can help you improve your listening skills.
ADHD and Social Intelligence
Social intelligence is our ability to interact effectively with others in any given environment. Social IQ is a measure of that ability. Unlike the intelligence quotient (IQ) score, social IQ is variable throughout one’s life and can be improved with practice. Children with ADHD face special challenges in social situations. But with the help of their parents, and some hard work, they can overcome those challenges, boost their social IQ, and enjoy more effective personal interactions.