9-24-2025
Here’s my list of what I’m exploring this week.
Featured Article
15 Things That Annoy the Crap out of Adults with ADHD
By Terry Matlen, LMSW
Here are some things that annoy me – and maybe you:
- Being interrupted while I’m talking. As if I’ll remember where I left off. Riiight.
- Giving me driving directions by telling me to go north for a mile, turn right in 50 yards, then make a left just past the gas station; continue until you see the stop sign, then head east for another 10 miles. Ok, so this was before GPS. Still…the memories haunt me.
- Following a recipe. Period.
- Trying to follow a recipe while your loved one is- in hearing distance- (insert: watching TV, listening to music, rustling the newspaper, or worse: talking to you).
- When someone asks you to divert your attention from whatever activity has you hyper-focused on, to something extremely lame (in your opinion), like why was the electricity just turned off?
- Being invited to a formal wedding. Wait: any wedding. The best one I ever went to had attendees in blue jeans. Unfortunately, no one told me it was informal.
- Restaurant menus with 300 different options to choose from.
- Disney. The long wait lines are more painful than the COVID vaccine. Note: I am PRO VACCINE! Just to be clear….
- People who talk at you, not to you or with you.
- Getting those damn Grammarly popups while I’m trying to write a newsletter.
- People who walk too slow (not including those who must, due to medical conditions.
- People who don’t ask me what I do but talk my husband’s head off about his vocation (he’s in medicine).
- Being asked to volunteer at school when you NEED those quiet hours away from your child to calm yourself down. You can’t win: if you say yes, you’re miserable. If you say no, you feel guilty. Luckily, my kids are grown, but I remember those days.
- Trying SO HARD to get somewhere on time only to find everyone rolling in 15 minutes after you. Or later.
- Forgetting to buy toilet paper when you go to the grocery store to buy toilet paper.
How about you? What bugs you and your ADHD? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
Help Terry!
As I fine-tune my Powerful Women with ADHD group, I’m looking for ideas from you to make it the best program possible- a place for women with ADHD to connect, feel safe, while learning how to work with, not against, your ADHD. See what’s going on now there: www.PowerfulWomenWithADHD.com or jump down and read what I’m offering and some new cool stuff coming up.
Please take this VERY short survey– have your voice heard- tell me what you want and need: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DQGY9RZ.
Thank you!
(WOW! Something BIG is Happening NOW!)
EXCITING UPDATES AT
Powerful Women with ADHD
My/our community is evolving and expanding!
NEW! Starting THIS MONTH, in addition to all the other resources I’m offering, enjoy face-to-face, informal, friendly group sessions with me! I’ll be discussing new topics and opening the Zoom room for Q/A.
Plus: more!
NEW! I’m adding:
- Thursdays with Terry
- Skill Sprints
- Hints and Hacks
- Terry’s Picks
- Weekly Online Meetups by Categories (AuDHD, hormone concerns, ADHD and LGBTQ+, organizing tips to share, etc.)
Got a topic you’d like me to cover? Join the Powerful Women with ADHD group and let me know what you’d like the group and I to discuss.
Finally! An interactive hour for you, me, and other women with ADHD.
Powerful Women with ADHD
Sign up Today at
www.PowerfulWomenWithADHD.
Community Support, Action-based Skills, Working Together to GET THINGS DONE
100% Shame-free Zone.
Questions? Email me at support@addconsults.com
PS: I’m looking for ADHD Coaches who would like to volunteer to monitor my chatrooms, plus Coaches/Professional Organizers, and ADHD experts interested in running a group, especially on skill-based topics, ie HOW-TO: organize, plan, time management tips, social skills, etc.
Great for experience, exposure, and helping women with ADHD.
Email me at terry@addconsults.com.
I will promote you, your work, your website, etc.
Tip from Terry
Can’t figure out where to start on the hundreds of projects you need to tackle?
Ask yourself: What ONE project would make me feel SO MUCH better if I could cross it off my to-do list? Go with your feelings, not the pragmatics. (Unless you’re about to get your car impounded for that bill that’s overdue).
CAN I HELP YOU?
Do you have an ADHD-related problem you’d like help with?
Personal ADHD Consultations with me on Zoom or Email! Hurry- Spots fill up fast.
(PS Consultations are not therapy, but we work together to help you get unstuck and on track.)
Learn more and sign up here.
What I Recommend
How to Keep House while Drowning
by KC Davis, LPC
Some of the strategies included:
- How to see chores as kindnesses to your future self, not as a reflection of your worth
- How to start by setting priorities
- How to stagger tasks so you won’t procrastinate
- How to clean in quick bursts within your existing daily routine
- How to use creative shortcuts to transform a room from messy to functional
Order your copy HERE.
Where to find Terry Matlen:
Website: www.ADDconsults.com
Coaching: www.QueensOfDistraction.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ADDconsults
Twitter: twitter.com/TerryMatlen
Instagram: www.instagram.com/terrymatlen_adhd
TikTok: http://www.tiktok.com/@terrymatlen
LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/terrymatlen/
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/terrymatlen
MY BOOK! The Queen of Distraction
Email: terry@addconsults.com
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