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Of course on such an important topic, I would forget to turn off the metronome function in GarageBand while editing the file. I’ve corrected it and so now there is no more annoying rhythmic tapping/clicking. Apologies. This episode is for all of our white neurodivergent listeners. We should have opened the podcast with that, but I’ll say it here. Aimée and I have an awkward, imperfect, incomplete, but important conversation around race and racism. With that here are a lot of links for you to read and sit with, uncomfortably. Find a group of your (white) friends and start having these conversations as well. Read Eloquent Rage by Brittany Cooper and Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom. Listen to Brene Brown with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist. TO START. What Is an Anti-Racist Reading List For? Hockey is not for everyone by Akim Aliu Georgetown Slavery Archive Toronto Police Accused of Pushing Black Woman from Balcony to her Death N.B. police shooting of Indigenous woman leads to questions on ‘wellness checks’ Why posting a black image with the ‘Black Lives Matter’ hashtag could be doing more harm than good The Whites of Quebec Pure Laine: Quebec’s Purity Myth Here’s the transcript.

*Note: We recorded this episode and scheduled to publish it before the world was set aflame. We encourage you to read anti-racist reading lists, as well as to donate to anti-racist causes locally (in Canada and in the USA). We are thinking of our own response, in terms of how to participate in the protests as neurodivergent individuals. But until then, please enjoy the regularly-scheduled episode. We have our second guest! This conversation equally could have gone on for two-plus hours, but I have a meeting I had to get to. Welcome Dr. Julie Alexander! Aimée and I are so grateful for how open and honest Julie was, and sharing her lists, her wedding, and her strategies for writing with us. We all learning a little bit, too, about the things we struggled to let go of, but also the things we will always carry with us. Here’s the transcript!  

You ever hate something that everyone else raves about, like loud parties or, IDK, Las Vegas? You’ve come to right place, where quiet fun is celebrated, and we can admit, in a safe space, that we’re not the problem if we think something isn’t as awesome as everyone else does. I am, however, on team LOUD FUN. Big thanks to Kelly for talking with us, and you’re welcome back anytime. TRANSCRIPT.

I basically got this shirt immediately after recording these episodes (thanks FB algorithm for listening in and suggesting this shirt to buy!). Kelly is back again, and we keep talking about how we’re, well, weird. But that’s ok. We’re reclaiming the word for ourselves, and celebrating our neurodiversity. TRANSCRIPTS!

LOOK WE HAVE A GUEST! That’s Kelly J. Baker (aka @kelly_j_baker on Twitter). She also has colorful hair and glasses, like us, and is also an Opinionated Lady on the Internet, like us, too! I laughed a lot during our two hours of recording. Here’s part one of three of our conversation. Come laugh with three very Opinionated Ladies on the Internet Who Also Have Brightly Colored Hair and Glasses! TRANSCRIPT!

Look, I don’t usually self-promote here, but, if you could: Given the current situation in the world, if you buy one of my two self-published books, I will donate the proceeds to Hope for College. Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. Today’s episode, the last of the pre-recorded ones, picks up where we left off in the last episode, talking about stories – the narratives we write and re-write about ourselves, but also the stories we long to hear about ourselves, or at least about people who are “like” us in important and recognizable ways. As always, there are transcripts.

I know, I know, I keep calling it Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria. But you can read a bit more about it and how it specifically impacts people with ADHD. It really was one of those moments where so much of how I reacted (and how my kids reacted) made much more sense once I found out about RSD. This episode is probably my most personal one. If you’d like to read me laying my heart out, here’s the transcript.

When you’ve been unknowingly living with ADHD for as long as Aimée and I have, getting the diagnosis and then taking medication can radically shift your identity as well as how you are productive. In this episode, that’s exactly what we talk about – what is still hard or newly hard now that we have our diagnosis and are taking out medication. As always, help yourself to the transcript.

Listen to us, all young and naive and not sheltering in place, confined to our homes, working remotely, trying to homeschool our kids. This, this was how S2 was supposed to start. And let this remind of a time before COVID-19, when 2020 held out hope for a new year. As opposed to *waves hands around* whatever this is. Anyway, we reflect back on what recording S1 meant to us, as well as what we were hoping (and still hope) to talk about this season. And, who knows? Maybe we will! TRANSCRIPT GOODNESS!

Yeah, it’s existential despair time over at All The Things ADHD. But fear not, we have advice on how to get over the malaise that we’re privileged enough to be experiencing as life settles into this new normal that isn’t normal, especially when confronted with the mundane normal activities from the recent past. We’re all living in ADHD time now, folks. And we’re here to help. Transcript!

As this little podcast that could surpasses 5k downloads, Aimée and I talk about how we’re managing working from home with ADHD and…other people in our space. From workspaces to dress challenges, we share what is working for us right now. Hopefully it will also work for you. And, maybe, we’ll start being able to… Read more S1.5 E3: Surviving Working from Home

So, we had a long talk about teaching and learning and Universal Design and accessibility and our pedagogical philosophies and how all of this intersects with what is happening right now, with all of our schools moving online for distance delivery. Transcript is right here!    

Hey everyone. No cover art today. Just a very special episode, the start of a series of very special episodes as we try to adapt and adopt to the ever-shifting new normal we are all experiencing. Here’s a link to the transcript. Stay safe and well everyone.

Welcome to 2020! This is our last episode of the first season of the All The Things ADHD podcast. I hope you enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed making them. In this episode, we finally conclude talking out our (ok, my) feelings about Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. I got a little emotional doing… Read more S1 E13: Tidying Up, Pt. 3

In this, the second part of our conversation about Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Aimée and I talk about the very specific academic “stuff” we’re attached to, including getting into that whole non-debate about how many books we’re supposed to have. The transcript is kinda tidy… Happy New Year, and thanks for listening! Look below… Read more S1 E12: Tidying Up, Pt. 2

In the coldest of cold takes, but releasing just in time for the holiday gift-giving extravaganza, Lee and Aimée talk about Netflix’s reality show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. In this episode, we talk about our gut reactions to the show, as well as starting to dig into our own relationship to stuff and the… Read more S1 E11: Tidying Up, Pt. 1

(The above-quote from Aimée did in fact inspire the title of this episode.) A challenge we all face, neurotypical or not, is how to effectively work together, to collaborate, to spend time in a shared space together. For people with ADHD, it can sometimes be even more of a challenge because of how our brains… Read more S1 E10: Playing Well With Others

We literally spend 20 minutes talking about all of the open tabs on our web browsers. Listen at your own risk. NOW WITH A TRANSCRIPT! Look below the episode for ways to subscribe! Or go to Subscribe to Podcast!

…only because Gender Identity and Affective Labor as a title isn’t as catchy. But, we are also talking about what we do to help ourselves get through the day as stress-free as possible. I avoided using the word “productive” as to not allow our worth to be reduced to what we produce. Because neoliberalism and… Read more S1 E8: ADHD Tips and Tricks

Mundane tasks are the bane of the ADHD brain. Lee and Aimée discuss the struggles they both have with paying bills – not because there is no money, but because it’s just so damn repetitive and boring. And we forget. A lot. All the time. Kinda like why I’m scheduling all these posts in one… Read more S1 E7: Money Troubles