Attention Different | Adulting with ADHD

You Are What You Choose to Remember w/Alexis Schwartz | Firesides Ep. 05


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💡Gratitude is a practice. What you choose to remember shapes your experiences and how you feel about your life 🙏♥️.

What would shift if you trained your brain to hold on to the good moments instead of the painful or difficult ones?

In this Fireside Chat, we sit down with Alexis Schwartz, environmental organizer, planner, and fellow ADHDer. Alexis shares her journey of navigating ADHD from diagnosis in childhood through her adult routines, setbacks, and strength-finding. From externalizing reminders to gratitude journaling, she opens up about what it takes to build sustainable habits and self-acceptance while living with ADHD.

This conversation explores the balancing act of ADHD adulting: how to adapt when routines stop working, why accountability matters, and what radical acceptance looks like when “perfect” isn’t on the table.

✨ HIGHLIGHTS ✨

  • How gratitude journaling reshapes memory and builds a positive inner dialogue
  • Why external reminders (phones, notes, calendars) help ADHDers stay grounded
  • The reality of constant medication adjustments and tolerance
  • The ongoing challenge of finding a work-life balance
  • Why accountability and community support are crucial for ADHD follow-through
  • How learning Spanish became both a personal goal and part of Alexis’s environmental justice work  

This episode is for anyone who wants to rewrite their ADHD story—not by erasing the struggles, but by emphasizing the times when they prevailed.

📺 Watch the full Fireside Chat with Alexis now on Attention Different YouTube:
 👉 youtube.com/@attentiondifferent

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