You crave routine, and you get bored of it by Wednesday.
You want to go deep on one thing, and your mind keeps jumping to five others.
You need quiet to think, and silence makes your brain go looking for something, anything, to grab onto.
If you have AuDHD, autistic and ADHD wiring in the same brain, you live with these contradictions every day. As a therapist, I hear about them constantly, from clients and from readers here. Most of what people have been told about them is about the cost: the exhaustion, the abandoned systems, the feeling that their brain argues with itself.
That cost is real. And there’s another side to it.
The same pulls that create friction in daily life are remarkably close to what creativity researchers describe as the engine of original thinking. Learn to work with them, and some of your hardest days can become the source of your best ideas.
Why friction can become fuel
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