Making work visible with our family Kanban
Our family just started using Kanban in the house. Kanban is a project management tool useful for prioritizing tasks as they come up. It’s typically used in work situations like maintenance, where emerging issues might pop up. I’ve been wanting to try Kanban for our household, and finally got it done. …
The human heart, neurodiversity (ADHD), and desire
Aristotle expressed the fundamental human desire as a desire for happiness, and others have expressed it differently over the years. It occurred to me that whether a person is interest-driven [ADHD] or importance-driven [neurotypical] can impact their relationship with this core desire.
ADHD: beyond success and normality
Besides picking up a recommendation to read Mary Robinson, I also learned the word cripistemology. Apparently, cripistemology comes from disability studies and is a portmanteau coining of “crip” and “epistemology.” [ADHD rabbit hole]
Urgency, necessity, and the fairy tale of ‘The Ten Fairy Servants’: an ADHD story
As I look back on my life from the perspective of a late-life ADHD diagnosis, certain experiences stand out. One of these experiences is the eureka I felt when reading the Scandinavian fairy tale, “The Ten Fairy Servants” […] When I first read this story, I saw it as expressing the surprising feeling of finding something easier to do when I learn that it is urgent or necessary.
A Personal View of the ICNUP Framework for ADHD
One of the things I’ve come across recently is Dr. William Dodson’s ICNUP Framework (see part 1 of this video called The Interest Based Nervous System). In this video, Dr. Dodson says that “Boredom and lack of engagement is almost physically painful to people with an ADHD nervous system.”
Reading Challenges of an English Major with ADHD
In a previous post, I wrote that “What I was told as a child was that ADHD caused a deficiency in attention, but in reality my attention follows my interest.” This is mostly true, but it conceals the fact that interests which are too taxing can become less interesting to me.
A 45-year Hiatus in ADHD: from Screening to Adult Diagnosis
When I was in 5th grade [1977-1978], I took a screening test for ADHD. The screening consisted in listening to a tape of a story with tones or beats in the background. The instruction was to keep track of how many beats were heard. […] If I recall correctly, the story was a pointless story about a monkey and maybe a tree. …