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How ADHD Puts Athletes in the Zone

By Dr. Dale Archer — 2014

Athletes with ADHD tend to perform better in sports that require hyper focus, i.e. short and intense bursts of attention.

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Coming Out Autistic

Transgender or gender-fluid people are more likely to be neurodivergent, and vice versa. Here’s what that’s like.

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Brandy Schillace
2021
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A Note on ADHD and Self-Acceptance

When you let yourself settle into the totality of who you are, when you stop trying to find a replacement for yourself, when you push back against the familiar tangles of shame, you will find that managing your challenges becomes much more simple.

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Michelle Frank
2019
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“I Don’t Need to Be Fixed!” Epiphanies of Self-Acceptance from Adults with ADHD

The path to self-acceptance is long and treacherous for adults with ADHD, many of whom mistake their symptoms for personal faults. Here, ADDitude readers share the moments they realized that they weren’t broken at all—and that their wild, wonderful ADHD brains didn’t need fixing.

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ADDitude Editors
2022
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Eliot Halverson Challenges the Gender Norms of Figure Skating

A three-time U.S. champion in figure skating, Eliot Halverson is Colombian-born, was adopted and raised by a white Minnesotan family and is transgender non-binary.

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Jillian L. Martinez
2021
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She Got ADHD: A Black Millennial’s Journey to Self-Acceptance

“My work never adequately represented my effort or my intelligence. No one saw how often I stayed up late to finish projects or how many used sticky notes were pasted all over my room and planner to remind myself of tasks.”

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Eartha Terrell
2017
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After Not Feeling ‘Queer Enough’ Kept Him Closeted, Pro Wrestler Logan Black Found Camaraderie in Coming Out

Out pro wrestler Logan Black found the response to his coming out ‘overwhelming in the best way.’

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Brian C. Bell
2021
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Which Personality Types Are Most Likely to Be Happy?

We all want more well-being in our lives.

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Scott Barry Kaufman
2017
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If Self-Discipline Feels Difficult, Then You’re Doing It Wrong

Many equate self-discipline with living a good, moral life, which ends up creating a lot of shame when we fail. There’s a better way to build lasting, solid self-discipline in your life.

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Mark Manson
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How Our Brains Can Find Peace in a Crisis

Psychologist Rick Hanson discusses how to strengthen our capacity for wisdom, peace, and enlightenment.

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Jill Suttie
2020
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