What is ADHD...and How Does it Affect me? An Executive Functioning Workbook
ADHD isn’t really an attention disorder.
Its more of an executive functioning disorder.
If we’re interested in something, we can pay attention (hyper-focus) for hours and hours.
But when not motivated to engage, we find focus and attention incredibly difficult. This often doesn’t help in school, and there are times when we cannot even focus on things we enjoy.
We are often smart and creative, but cannot organise ourselves – internally and externally – to be able to perform for others.
Due to our executive functioning issues, everything takes so much more effort than it does for neurotypical people, this can lead to burn out. It can also lead to us being emotionally dysregulated, which in turn leads to us collecting label as being poorly behaved, lazy and disruptive.
The good news is we can train ourselves to strengthen our executive functioning skills. It does take time and effort, and the first steps are to know our own executive functioning profile. That is the aim of this workbook.
ADHD isn’t really an attention disorder.
Its more of an executive functioning disorder.
If we’re interested in something, we can pay attention (hyper-focus) for hours and hours.
But when not motivated to engage, we find focus and attention incredibly difficult. This often doesn’t help in school, and there are times when we cannot even focus on things we enjoy.
We are often smart and creative, but cannot organise ourselves – internally and externally – to be able to perform for others.
Due to our executive functioning issues, everything takes so much more effort than it does for neurotypical people, this can lead to burn out. It can also lead to us being emotionally dysregulated, which in turn leads to us collecting label as being poorly behaved, lazy and disruptive.
The good news is we can train ourselves to strengthen our executive functioning skills. It does take time and effort, and the first steps are to know our own executive functioning profile. That is the aim of this workbook.
ADHD isn’t really an attention disorder.
Its more of an executive functioning disorder.
If we’re interested in something, we can pay attention (hyper-focus) for hours and hours.
But when not motivated to engage, we find focus and attention incredibly difficult. This often doesn’t help in school, and there are times when we cannot even focus on things we enjoy.
We are often smart and creative, but cannot organise ourselves – internally and externally – to be able to perform for others.
Due to our executive functioning issues, everything takes so much more effort than it does for neurotypical people, this can lead to burn out. It can also lead to us being emotionally dysregulated, which in turn leads to us collecting label as being poorly behaved, lazy and disruptive.
The good news is we can train ourselves to strengthen our executive functioning skills. It does take time and effort, and the first steps are to know our own executive functioning profile. That is the aim of this workbook.
