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📖 Recommended ADHD Books That Won’t Bore You

Let’s be honest: most ADHD books lose us by chapter two. They either talk down to you, drown you in theory, or forget that your attention span is already fighting for its life. 🧠📚

So here’s a list of ADHD-friendly reads that are fun, practical, shame-free, and genuinely engaging—whether you’re newly diagnosed, self-identifying, or just trying to understand your gloriously neurospicy brain.

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🎯 ADHD & Perfectionism: How to Let Go (A Bit)

You’ve got 47 tabs open, 12 tasks half-started, and one project you haven’t touched in three months—because if it can’t be perfect, what’s the point?

Welcome to ADHD perfectionism: a weird fusion of high standards, fear of failure, and the haunting feeling that everyone else is somehow doing it better.

This isn’t just a mindset. It’s a nervous system pattern. Let’s look at what’s really going on—and how to shift it just enough to breathe.

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❌ How to Say No Without Spiralling

You want to say no. You know you should say no. But your brain panics, your body goes cold, and somehow you’re nodding yes while screaming internally. 🧠🔥

Sound familiar? That’s not just poor boundaries. That’s rejection sensitivity, fawning, and a tangled mess of emotional conditioning.

This post dives deep into the psychology of why saying no feels so hard with ADHD—and how to do it without guilt, panic, or a post-refusal shame spiral.

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✅ The ADHD Checklist: Signs, Struggles & Strengths

You think ADHD is just about being distracted? Missing deadlines? Fidgeting?

Ohhh no, my friend. Buckle up. This checklist goes deeper—into the weird, hidden, and absolutely under-acknowledged ways ADHD shows up.

If you’ve ever felt like something was off but couldn’t explain it… this list might hit a little too hard. (In a good way.)

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🏠 ADHD-Friendly Routines for Working from Home

Working from home sounds like a dream—until you realise your brain has no idea what day it is, what time it is, or where your pants went. 🧠💻

ADHD + WFH can turn your living room into a productivity black hole. But the answer isn’t strict routines or forcing a 9-to-5 mindset.

This post gives you unexpected, brain-friendly ways to build rhythms that reduce chaos, increase focus, and still leave room for snacks, hyperfixations, and mid-day existential detours.

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🗂️ How to Use Notion Without Getting Lost in It

Notion is powerful. Customisable. Aesthetically pleasing. And also—completely overwhelming if your brain is already juggling 97 tabs, 6 snack urges, and one existential crisis. 🍿🧠💥

This isn’t your average Notion tutorial. This is a survival guide for ADHD brains who want to use Notion to function, not spiral into an endless loop of dashboards, pages, and Pinterest-level perfectionism.

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😭 Why You Cry at Emails: Emotional Regulation for ADHD

One email. Just a few words. And suddenly your whole body tightens, your face burns, and you’re on the verge of tears.

You’re not dramatic. You’re emotionally dysregulated—and you’re not alone.

For ADHD brains, emotional reactions often hit faster, harder, and louder than seems “logical.” Especially when the trigger is vague, abrupt, or even well-meaning.

This post isn’t just about inbox meltdowns. It’s about why small things feel big—and what’s actually happening behind the flood.

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🚽 How to Deal With Overstimulation (Without Hiding in the Toilet)

Your brain is buzzing, lights are too bright, people are too loud, your shirt tag feels like a fork—and suddenly, you’re fantasising about locking yourself in a bathroom stall just to breathe.

That, my friend, is overstimulation.

It’s not just sensory. It’s emotional. Cognitive. Physical. And when you’ve got ADHD, your nervous system has a lower threshold for “too much.”

This post is for when you’re already overwhelmed—not in a perfect world where you remembered to meditate and meal-prep. These are on-the-spot, under-the-radar tools to get you through real-life chaos.

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📚 Study Tips for ADHD Brains That Hate Studying

You open your notes, blink once, and suddenly it’s two hours later and you’ve learned nothing—but you do know every single fact about sea otters.

If studying feels impossible, you’re not broken—you just need a different approach. ADHD brains weren’t built for long lectures, colour-coded binders, or memorising things the traditional way.

Here’s a collection of genuinely helpful, psychology-backed, not-so-basic study tips for the neurospicy mind. Let’s get weird, effective, and actually doable. 🧠✨

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👯‍♀️ The Body Double Trick: Focus, Together

Ever notice how you can’t start your task alone, but suddenly everything gets done when someone else is in the room—doing literally nothing?

That’s not weird. That’s the body double trick. 👯‍♀️🧠

Popular in the ADHD community (and completely underrated outside of it), body doubling is a simple, science-backed technique that helps you stay focused just by having someone present while you work.

Let’s unpack how it works, why it works, and how to use it even if you don’t have someone physically nearby.

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