The monotropic neurotype that is Autism + ADHD holds strengths and challenges. Typical advice often doesn't work for us.
Your AuDHD host, Mattia Maurée (they/them), shares research, lived
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The monotropic neurotype that is Autism + ADHD holds strengths and challenges. Typical advice often doesn't work for us.
Your AuDHD host, Mattia Maurée (they/them), shares research, lived
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The podcast currently has 92 episodes available.
Thinking seasonally about gratitude in the context of..... everything happening right now.
It's easy for my brain to want to solve every problem in the world.
But I don't want to do the opposite of becoming entirely insular and only focusing on myself.
I've found gratitude to be a way I can be more deeply interconnected (and in my case, add more reasons to want to live).
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AuDHDers often end up partly or fully self-employed. It can be due to desire, or out of necessity.
Either way, this episode covers some tips to think about before starting. It may also be helpful if you've started businesses before and fallen for some bad advice (which I have).
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Feeling worried about the future? Uncertainty can be especially difficult for Autistic nervous systems.
Today I go into more detail about WHY & HOW safety in the body can be a foundational practice for healing and wellness.
At the end, I share the audio of a practice that is also on YouTube here if you'd like to follow along with visuals.
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Sam Cooper is an AuDHD coach and generally awesome human. When we met in person, we bonded over having worn the wrong size shoes for years, which led to the title of this episode.
Sam shares about building a small business, and the upsides and downsides of a coaching business in particular.
Sensory needs and discovering support tools.
They also have an incredibly compassionate approach to their own journey.
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Zann's artist business is one of the easiest things she's ever done. And it's not even her main passion!
Her deeply relatable history includes ten years of feeling like failure soup. It didn't feel like progress or learning, just failure. But it ultimately led her to figure out what does NOT work.
She shares amazing ideas and practical advice.... this will be a great one to listen to more than once!
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If you struggle to figure out what to focus on with bigger goals, you're not alone! Here's one approach I've come up with for my own annual goals in particular. And some thoughts on decision making, since that's part of it.
Wish List for bday (or whenever)
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I failed my first driving test! On a technicality! Ah, the frustrations of begging to exist in structures not built for us.
Three quick stories about bureaucratic bullshit in a single week, and how it fits into my own big ball of yarn.
It's okay that the stuff that's hard for us is probably never going to be fun or easy.
We need support and RESOURCES that work for us! More on finding good resources in the episode... librarians are often a great place to start.
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The autistic / AuDHD self-discovery journey can feel like finding out that you've been hammering screws this whole time. You never learned how to use the right tools. You may not have been given the right tools at all!
A few thoughts on the grief inherent in the process, and how to equip your personal toolbox now that you know what's up.
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Weeks and months are staples of scheduling systems. But they tend not to work well for me as units of time.
My personal ideal is two days on, two days off, though that's impractical. Instead, I talk about the various workarounds I've found, including intentionally scheduling rest (and how if I don't have time for that, I need to decrease demands).
If weeks don't work well for you, how can you find what does?
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This episode is about both why it's so hard to get help as an AuDHDer,
and some of the broad steps I see working for us.
It can help to have a view of your "big ball of yarn" i.e. complex and interrelated problems or life areas.
It can also help to start addressing your sensory needs, core needs, and just live your life while you take a break from big processing.
Please take care and be gentle to yourself!
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