Letters
Unhurried, evidence-honest letters on ADHD, the body, food and belonging. Written to be read slowly.
A letter · about 5 minutes
Why a brain like ours forgets to eat
If your eating seems to swing from nothing all day to everything by night, you are not lazy or greedy or failing at something simple. There is a real reason, and it is kinder than the story you have probably been told.
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Different, not broken
You have probably been handed a long list of the things your brain gets wrong. This is a letter about the frame that list was written in, and why changing the frame changes almost everything.
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Eating by the clock, not by hunger
This is a gentle, practical letter about steadying your eating when your body is not always reliable about telling you when to. There are no numbers in it, and there is nothing to earn.
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When the emotional side of ADHD feels hardest
If feelings arrive fast and take time to settle, you are not too much. Emotion-regulation difficulties are common in ADHD, and they also deserve a careful look at the whole context.
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Medication can help, and support may still matter
ADHD medication can be an important evidence-based treatment. Therapy and practical support may still help with needs that remain, alongside review with the prescriber.
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Your nervous system, and a place to belong.
If pressure has not helped, it may be useful to explore interest, stress, environment and connection. These are practical lenses, not a complete biological explanation of ADHD.
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Diagnosed as an adult, the relief and the grief
If you were only recently told you have ADHD, and you have felt both a wave of relief and an ache of grief, both belong. Nothing about you arrived late. The name did.
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The late brain at midnight
If your best thinking, and your worst spiralling, arrive the moment the house finally goes quiet, you are not undisciplined. A brain like ours often runs on a later clock, and there are kinder ways to work with it than force.
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Working with your brain, not against it
If every productivity system has eventually failed you, the problem was never you. Most of them were designed for a brain that runs on discipline. Here are a few designed for ours.
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Food as brain fuel, held safely
There is a real and growing conversation about food and the ADHD brain, and it holds both genuine science and genuine risk. This is an honest map of both, held safely.
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AuDHD, when you are autistic and ADHD at once
If one part of you craves the new and another part needs everything to stay the same, and no single label has ever held all of you, there may be a reason. You might be both.
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Neurodivergent and queer, more than one kind of different
If you are both neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+, you already know it is not two separate stories running side by side. It is one life, lived at an intersection most services were never built to see.
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