Launching Successful Young Adults with ADHD: The Role of Self-Motivation   The transition to adulthood is a highly challenging time for individuals with ADHD. In fact, the gap between youth with ADHD and their peers widens after high school. While many eighteen- and nineteen-year-olds without ADHD move out of the house, enroll in higher education,…

Imagine if you had more energy every day… what would you do with it? Start on that project you’ve been putting off? Finish that thing that you just haven’t had the energy to finish? (Did someone say taxes?) Focus a little extra time on just getting organized so you’re more ready to attack tomorrow with all…

For years, I tried to hide my ADHD. I was ashamed of it. I found it challenging to concentrate as effectively as my peers and my fidgeting only worsened my feeling. I felt I had to exert twice as much effort as other “neurotypical” persons, while still receiving subpar results. I thought that if I…

As an adult with ADHD, my relationship with exercise is simple. I hate it. It’s a decades-old demon I pretty much gave up defeating. My best friend, Doug Snyder, shares my struggle. So how did we manage to exercise regularly over 250 times in 2022 and 150 times the year before? The short answer is,…

Today we pay tribute to a woman who was special to so many people. Her recent death is a loss not only for her family but for the whole world. Marlene Snyder, PhD, was a national and international champion for two great causes: ADHD and bullying. She was a farm girl who grew up to…

Up until his recent passing, Joseph Biederman (CHADD Hall of FAME, inducted 1995) was an explorer, teacher, and champion of the clinical science of ADHD. The way we understand mental functioning is built on the work of a vast number of researchers and clinicians like him. These are individuals who have committed themselves not just…

The national rate of preschool ADHD in the United States increased from 1.0% in 2007 to 2.4% in 2016. Although preschoolers with ADHD often do not receive a diagnosis until later, early and effective interventions can blunt the typical developmental progression seen with ADHD (lower academic achievement, for example) and mitigate the need for further…

Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome: What Is It and How Is It Different from ADHD?   Attention difficulties are common in children and adolescents with ADHD. They include trouble staying focused, being easily distracted, rushing through schoolwork, losing materials or being forgetful, and disorganization. Due to these difficulties, children and adolescents with ADHD struggle with starting and…

Is ADHD related to challenges with eating? This research update reviews two recent studies involving samples of young children as well as young adults. The first is a cross-sectional study that found links between ADHD and eating disorder symptoms among university students. In particular, the inattentive symptoms of ADHD were related to body dissatisfaction, bulimia,…

It’s Not Always Your Fault When It Ends Most people who identify as having ADHD have a long, and often complicated, history with friends. We often have an equally long history of feeling misunderstood in social situations because we were “too much” for some people, leaving us feeling that we caused conflict, worried that we…

Since it was first highlighted by Attention in 2016, Building Our Kids Together (BOKS) continues to strive toward its important mission: making physical activity a part of every child’s day. Based on its growing popularity, the program appears to be succeeding. One reason may be how easy it is to bring BOKS to a school,…

We existed as a family for fifteen years before realizing some of us had ADHD. How did we do it? Although life after diagnosis and treatment is not easy, I look back in wonder at what we went through before in staying married, raising our children, and maintaining a family life. Reviewing our life has…