ADHD Awareness Month · October 2026

Practical Thoughts from anADHDSocial Worker

Real stories. Practical tips.
Crew wisdom for neurodivergent practice.

Day 01 · Daisy

Meet the Inbox Monster this month…

He feeds on distraction and grows on delay. You will see him again.

Weekdays open as diary entries. Each weekend becomes one double-spread visual and mini-game.

Separate what you can actually observe from the explanation you are already attaching to it.

Create space for more than one explanation. Curiosity interrupts premature certainty.

Ask the person what helps, what gets in the way and what the situation is like from their perspective.

Change communication, environment, process or demand where the existing approach is creating an avoidable barrier.

Did the adaptation actually help? Keep what works, change what does not and avoid turning flexibility into another rigid rule.