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Structured Success @structuredsucc@mastodon.social · Jul 25, 2026

The shower can be such an overwhelming place for people with sensory issues, such as autistic folks. Remember! You're allowed to make it a better sensory experience. You can add music, incense, or a galaxy projector. You are allowed to turn the lights off, reduce water pressure, or use a shower chair

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Structured Success @structuredsucc@mastodon.social · Jul 24, 2026

If you only do everything you "should" do, you will never have time for anything else… and you probably won't even finish everything you "should" do. It's just not possible. So why feel guilty for not finishing all of the things you (and others) tell yourself you should do?

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Structured Success @structuredsucc@mastodon.social · Jul 23, 2026

It's not childish to adapt child-focused ADHD strategies to work for you as an adult. Visual schedules, sticker charts, token economies, and other strategies get talked about as if they are only for kids, when they could help so many adults as well

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Structured Success @structuredsucc@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2026

Anything worth doing is worth half-assing. I promise. Seriously, if doing something perfectly is going to improve your life or functioning, half-assing it is still going to improve your life or functioning 9 times out of 10

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Structured Success @structuredsucc@mastodon.social · May 28, 2026

Doomscrolling checkpoint. Please deposit one fact about your special interest that people always get wrong in order to proceed

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Structured Success @structuredsucc@mastodon.social · May 04, 2026

Having a flaky working memory, as ADHD'ers do, means we NEED to do something to externalize that.

This could be the much maligned advice to "write it down," but it could be visual cues in our environment, or practising memory techniques.

However, you also have to be willing to forget things sometimes.

If we don't purge tasks/notes from our memory systems, it's going to eventually become overwhelming. This is true whether that system is writing things down, visual cues, or "I'll remember it"

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Structured Success @structuredsucc@mastodon.social · Apr 27, 2026

Decision paralysis can actually be a major contributor to impulsivity for ADHD'ers.

A lot of energy and stress can build up behind this decision when we get stuck on a decions, and this can suddenly give way to a big, bold, or exciting move, smashing through paralysis with the power of impulsivity

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Structured Success @structuredsucc@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026

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It can also make us really confused when things unexpectedly change because our thinking can adapt super quickly and we need time to re-process These struggles with cognitive flexibility impact decisionmaking in both of these ways. We can get lost choosing between extreme options, sometimes not even seeing the moderate options in between. AND if there's an unexpected change, such as a price change, we can freeze entirely as we reprocess

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Structured Success @structuredsucc@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026

Cognitive flexibility, or the ability to adapt our thinking as circumstances change, is so important to decisionmaking.

Unfortunately, this means that folks who struggle with cognitive flexibility [such as ADHD, autistic, many other neurodivergent folks] can really struggle here

Struggling with cognitive flexibility often means getting stuck in black-and-white patterns of thinking, where we see things in all-or-nothing terms.

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Structured Success @structuredsucc@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

Habits are triggered by environmental cues, either internal or external.

Willpower, especially for ADHD'ers, isn't a sustainable cue!

To give our habits the best chance to stick, we need to use cues that are consistent, sustainable, and relevant to us or we don't stand a chance

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Structured Success @structuredsucc@mastodon.social · Apr 23, 2026

Me, doing the things that I need to survive:

My ADHD: This is boring.
You're BBBOOORRRRIINNNNGGG

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Structured Success @structuredsucc@mastodon.social · Apr 23, 2026

For ADHD'ers, future plans often need a sense of urgency to to feel real to us. This sets us up for an all-or-nothing approach to events, where we feel we have to do everything right this moment or it will never happen.

This tricks us into so many unsustainable behaviours, it's not even funny

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