ADHD Adults - why am I so bad at adulting?

In this third episode of the 'Powerful Possibilities' podcast, ADHD coach Katherine discusses the distinct challenges that adults with ADHD face, such as maintaining a nine-to-five job, forming stable relationships, and maintaining a home. She discusses the negative feedback and lack of understanding these adults often face, especially when they struggle with society's 'adult functions'. She explores the stronger likelihood of adults with ADHD to face executive function problems, lower income, having smaller social networks, and other difficulties. However, Katherine assures listeners that despite these challenges, a fulfilling life is possible with ADHD, it might just look different. She encourages her audience to get an assessment of their unique executive function profile to understand where they are struggling, build individual strategies to manage these struggles, and create a balance between structure and freedom. Katherine also hints at future episodes where these strategies to manage ADHD will be extensively discussed.

00:07 Introduction and Overview🎵 What's up everybody....

00:19 Understanding the Struggles of Adulting with ADHD - Why am I so bad at adulting?...

00:59 Feedback and Reflections on Previous Episodes

Thank you, everybody for your lovely feedback on the first two episodes of the podcast, this is the first time....

01:11 The Challenges of Adulting with ADHD - First question is, why am I so bad to adulting?...

01:41 The Impact of ADHD on Adult Life: Adults tend to be people who have jobs....

02:36 The Role of Executive Functions in ADHD: So I love to do research for blog posts for podcasts, for everything....

03:11 The Importance of Identifying and Addressing Challenges 

03:31 Understanding the Inattentive Presentation of ADHD -  people with inattentive presentation of ADHD who are more likely to be missed when younger....

04:23 The Concept of Adulting - what adulting usually means....

04:47 The Impact of ADHD on Brain Maturation and Adult Responsibilities 

06:19 The Role of Executive Functions in ADHD and Adulting

06:38 The Importance of Research and Understanding ADHD

09:15 The Challenges of Time Management with ADHD

10:08 The Role of Medication in Managing ADHD 

14:09 Understanding Emotional Regulation in ADHD

17:32 Strategies for Managing Executive Functions and Time Awareness

23:19 The Importance of Emotional Self-Regulation 

23:56 The Power of Reframing and Emotional Self-RegulationAnd we have social communication problems....

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