How TIIMO Can Help You Manage Your Time and Relieve ADHD Anxiety
ADHD Open Space Podcast
Raise your hand if any of these phrases sound familiar: “Oh, %$#@, it started five minutes ago!” “Wait — that was today?” “This is taking forever. How can it not be over yet?” “Guess I’m just gonna be late…again.” “What was it I’m supposed to be doing now?” If your hand is still down, this article is not for you; go back to reading “How to enjoy your perfectly manageable schedule” or “How to let people without an unfailingly accurate internal clock know how much you pity them” or whatever it is people like you read. One the other hand (the one...
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The 3-Step Foolproof Way to Find Lost Things When You Have ADHD
ADHD Open Space Podcast
drawing by the author using Adobe Fresco #byHumansForHumans #noAI Raise your hand if you’ve ever found yourself rummaging through drawers, wandering through room after room in your house, checking backpacks and briefcases and pockets repeatedly, all while muttering “I know I saw that somewhere…” “That”, of course, is a thing that you did not need when you saw it last. It registered as a blip on your conscious mind — the feeling of “Oh, I see that. Good to know I still have it” without the burden of actually remembering where it is located. Then, a few days/weeks/months...
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Five Things You're Guaranteed to Get at the ADHD Open Space
ADHD Open Space Podcast
Transcript: Welcome to the ADHD Open Space Podcast. My name is Gray Miller, and I will be your host and facilitator as we explore ideas, workarounds, accommodations, and other aspects of being a professional adult with ADHD. ...
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ADHD: The Scattering
ADHD Open Space Podcast
Let me tell you about the winter when the Idea Monster came and sat in his brain and almost kept the last five NaPodPoMo podcasts from happening. And also…about the fun game about ADHD that I’m creating. “Squirrel card, like…Someone sent a thumbs up emoji and you're distracted, lose, you're distracted, so you lose a certain number of emotional regulation tokens. Or you moved houses three months ago and can't find that one box with all the cleaning supplies. Immediately give up on all house related goal cards. So if you were planning on organizing your closet, or doing the dishes, nope,...
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ADHD in Relationships: Interview with my partner, Natasha
ADHD Open Space Podcast
This was a hard one to post, because my partner is loving and honest and so there are parts of this interview that my brain tells me will make you hate me. But authenticity is important, as is trust, and I trust both her and you, my listeners. So here it is in unedited glory.
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How My ADHD Brain Created a Nightmare of Social Anxiety
ADHD Open Space Podcast
After my diagnosis, even my dreams make more sense. Sort of. Note: all people mentioned in this article are fictitious constructs of my subconscious brain. Even the one who is real. Since my relatively recent diagnosis, I’ve been immersing myself in research, anecdotes, podcasts, videos, and social media related to adult ADHD. It’s been quite the revelatory experience, as my perspective of the last fifty or so years of my life changes with this new lens turned on myself. Last night all that knowledge finally seeped into my subconscious and I had what I suspect will only be the...
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The Dangerously Addictive Law of Mobility
ADHD Open Space Podcast
Made for Open Space. But tempting for the world... Here's the thing about Open Space: aside from providing people with the oppor- tunity to share the things they're passionate about, it also provides them with an op- portunity to be responsible. That one law I mentioned? It's known as "The Law of Mobility", and it is pretty simply expressed: If you are not benefiting from or contributing to whatever's going on in front of you, move somewhere you can. Note that it's not called "the opportunity of mobility" or "the you-might-want-to of mobility." It's the Law. It's the only law - as I pointed...
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The Four Principles of Open Space
ADHD Open Space Podcast
Whoever. Whatever. Whenever. It’s Over. That’s what makes it all work. My elevator pitch on Open Space goes something like this: “You know how regular conventions give you a program that tells you who’s going to talk, what they’re going to talk about, and exactly how long they’re going to let you think about it before they’ll stop talking? Open space is the opposite of that. People show up, and we ask them “What do you want to talk about right now? How long do you need?” And then we give them that space.” I’ve found it works pretty well, but some people...
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Why Open Space Events are Tailor-Made for People with ADHD
ADHD Open Space Podcast
Including some thoughts on overcoming impostor syndrome as a professional. I actually wrote an entire article about this on October 25th, 2023, and posted it both to my Medium account and to the ADHD OpenSpace newsletter. What was funny to me is that a few days later on October 29th the threads account of simple. mindful.adhd (who I have enjoyed following). (And by the way, I am, I'm quoting them not through any endorsement on their part of my event. I just found what they said interesting because they are at a conference and they were sort of doing a play by play as they were at...
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The Least Helpful Advice I’ve Ever Been Given About ADHD
ADHD Open Space Podcast
Please stop telling me my brain has a “Special Superpower." “I’m a fish in a forest.” I’m pretty sure at some point I’m going to make t-shirts with this statement. It’s my reaction to the oft-repeated “superpower” trope about ADHD. Here’s a bit of a rant…but I suspect it will resonate. TRANSCRIPT OF MAIN BODY There are two kinds of people when it comes to ADHD. On the one side, there are people like Dr. Russell Barkley, whose research has led him to call ADHD “the diabetes of the psychology”: It’s a chronic disorder that must be managed...
info_outlineYou know how ADHD can cause you to do impulsive things?
Many years ago, but for several years in a row, I decided to try the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge. You try to write a 50,000 word piece (novel, whatever) in a month.
I did it. It felt great. But in succeeding years it got easier, and eventually (surprise!) I got bored with it.
But some friends of mine from Creative Work Hour mentioned they were doing NaPodPoMo in November. That’s “National Podcast Post Month” — challenging you to post thirty podcasts in thirty days.
Now, I’m also an old hand at podcasting (don’t bother looking, it’s gone from the internet now) but I thought it might be fun to do the challenge with a focus on the ADHD Open Space.
For this first episode, there are four graphics that go along with the talk. I will post them below, but they won’t make much sense until after you hear the podcast.
For now, I’ve got several episodes recorded, several interviews/roundtables planned, but I’ve also got plenty of open space (see what I did there?) to talk about things that you want to talk about, explore, or share.
All you have to do is post something - either in the episode comments or, if you prefer, by emailing me at [email protected] . Hope you enjoy the show!
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit adhdos.substack.com