Motivation & Executive Functioning
Neurodivergent individuals experience motivation differently. Explore insights, tips, and support for managing motivation, sleeping, eating and executive functioning to thrive with your unique brain.
Motivation and What Gets in the Way
Time blindness
Managing motivation
Chores
If you have questions or want support, please reach out to me and we can get started.
Motivation & What Gets In The Way
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Time Blindness & Procrastination
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Managing Motivation
Video:
Journal Articles:
"No way out except from external intervention": First-hand accounts of autistic inertia
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Managing Chores
ADHD and Cleaning is Perpetual Challenge
KC Davis has tons of great things on her website.
How to Keep House While Drowning. It’s a must for any ADHDer
Shortcuts to a Cleaner, Less Cluttered Home
Videos:
Coping with clutter when you have ADHD
Books:
How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis. It’s a must for any ADHDer
How ADHD Affects Home Organization: Understanding the Role of the 8 Key Executive Functions of the Mind by Lisa Woodruff
If you have questions or want support, reach out to me and we can get started.
Sleeping
Videos
The dream completion technique for nightmares. (Particularly helpful with PTSD)
How to get sleep when you have ADHD
Executive Functioning
What Is Executive Function? 7 Deficits Tied to ADHD
Executive challenges in autism & ADHD
The Spectrum of Executive Function
Worksheet
The Spectrum of EF and Where I Struggle
Planners:
EF Assessment:
Executive Skills Questionnaire–Revised
App Suggestions:
Executive Functioning Wheel with Apps
Helpful Technology Tips by Bobbi-Jo
Focus Mate (Body doubling to get work done)
Journal Article:
Managing Hyperfixations
Special Interests & Hyperfixations
In defense of special interests
Videos:
Special Interests and Hyperfixations, what are they?
What is a “body double,” and how does it help?
Smart but Scattered Guide To Success- Dawson & Guare
Podcast:
Neurodivergence in Society
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Social Justice Passion
Why we are social justice warriors
The Identity Theory of Autism: Values are not opinions to Autistics. We are our values.
Why Am I So Sensitive? Why ADHD Brains Can’t Just Ignore Unfairness
ADHD and an Unusual Sense of Fairness
Journal Articles:
Justice and rejection sensitivity in children and adolescents with ADHD symptoms
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Religion & Spirituality
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ND Movement
Darkest Before Dawn: Autism, Ableism, and the Rise of the Neurodiversity Movement
Autism Is an Identity, Not a Disease: Inside the Neurodiversity Movement
Clearing Up Some Misconceptions about Neurodiversity
The holistic model of disability
Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm
Podcasts:
Episode 213: Not a Disease - Understanding Autism as Difference
Journal Articles:
Questions? Need Support?
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I am continuously adding to this page as I get new information so come check back to see new additions. If you have any resources that you have found helpful but are not listed please email me as I would love to add them: henry@therapyforpetpeople.com
Please forgive any typos or broken links. As an ADHDer it’s a challenge for me to keep up but I am making it a priority as this page is truly a labor of love. Be sure to forward the link to others in your life who may benefit from this information. Bring some food and water as this is a deep deep dive into all things neurodivergent.