ADHD is a different way of regulating attention, motivation, time, and emotions. This ADHD Learning Hub helps you understand how ADHD shows up in you, with courses, articles, scientific references, and relevant organizations.
🧭 New to ADHD? Start Here
📘 ADHD In Adults: Features and Impact
A big-picture guide to how adult ADHD affects focus, emotions, habits, relationships, and work.
🧠 25 ADHD Symptoms in Adults: Signs That Often Get Missed
A clear, adult-focused overview of common ADHD symptoms that often stay hidden behind coping and masking.
✅ Do I Have ADHD? Self-Reflection Checklist for Adults
A gentle checklist to help you notice ADHD patterns in attention, impulsivity, time, and daily functioning.
🧠 ADHD Executive Function: A Guide to Why Planning, Starting and Switching Tasks Feel So Hard
A deep explanation of executive functions and why they’re inconsistent in ADHD.
🧭 Guide for Late ADHD Diagnosis In Adults
What late diagnosis can feel like, what changes after it, and how to move forward with clarity and support.
👩 ADHD in Women & Girls: The Hidden Struggle
Why ADHD is often missed in women and girls, and how masking and internalizing can hide symptoms.
ADHD | Sensory Overload Courses
ADHD | Sensory Overload Articles
🔬 ADHD Core Traits & Science
🧠 ADHD Subtypes in Adulthood: Inattentive, Hyperactive-Impulsive and Combined
Explains the three main ADHD presentations and how they can look different in adults.
🧭 Guide for Late ADHD Diagnosis In Adults
What late diagnosis can feel like, what changes after it, and how to move forward with clarity and support.
🌟 ADHD Strengths and Cognitive Advantages
A strengths-based look at creativity, intuition, pattern detection, and high-drive moments in ADHD brains.
🎨 ADHD Creativity: Why ADHD Brains Think Differently
How novelty-seeking, associative thinking, and emotional intensity can fuel creative output.
✨ ADHD Intuition: Why You Sense Things Before You Understand Them
Why you can “feel” a pattern or outcome quickly, even before you can logically explain it.
🎯 ADHD Hyperfocus: What It Is and How It Works
How hyperfocus forms, why it’s not fully controllable, and how to use it without burning out.
🔬 ADHD Science: What Research Reveals
A research-informed overview of what we know about ADHD mechanisms, outcomes, and treatment approaches.
📚 10 Landmark ADHD Studies That Shaped Our Knowledge
A guided tour of major ADHD research milestones and what they changed in the field.
🧠 The Neuroscience of ADHD Time Perception
Explains why time can feel distorted in ADHD and what brain systems are involved in timing.
🧩 Autism vs ADHD in Adults: Overlap, Differences and What It Means For You
A practical comparison of overlap and differences to help you understand which traits point where.
🧬 Autism, ADHD or AuDHD? Understanding the Overlap and the Differences
How overlapping traits can blur categories, and how to think about your profile without oversimplifying.
🎯 ADHD Time & Executive Functioning
🧱 The ADHD Activation Energy Problem: Why Starting Is Harder Than Doing
Why task initiation takes disproportionate effort—and how friction, uncertainty, and emotion block “start.”
⏳ ADHD Procrastination: The Start-Barrier Cycle (and How to Start Anyway)
Breaks down the procrastination loop and offers concrete “start anyway” strategies.
🧺 ADHD Housework Paralysis
Why chores become invisible/overwhelming and how to reduce overwhelm with simpler entry points.
🧊 ADHD Paralysis: Why Your Brain Freezes
What “freeze” looks like in ADHD and how overload, stakes, and emotion shut down action.
🔁 ADHD Transitions: Why Task Switching Feels Physical (and How to Make It Easier)
Why switching tasks can feel like body-level resistance—and how to build smoother transitions.
⏱️ ADHD Time Blindness: Why Time Feels Difficult to Track
Why “now vs not-now” dominates ADHD time sense and how that affects planning and deadlines.
📅 How ADHD Time Blindness Challenges Show Up in Daily Life
Real-life examples of time-blindness in routines, appointments, transitions, and estimates.
😮💨 The Shame Around ADHD Time Blindness
How repeated lateness and “forgetting time” turns into shame—and how to reframe it.
🗓️ ADHD Time Strategies That Actually Work
Practical tools and routines for time awareness, time estimation, and getting started on time.
📱 ADHD Screens and Dopamine: How to Use Technology Without Falling Into the Scroll Trap
Why screens hook ADHD brains and how to set up guardrails without relying on willpower.
🥱 ADHD Boredom: Why It Hurts and How to Build a Dopamine Menu That Doesn’t Backfire
Why boredom can feel physically painful in ADHD and how to build healthier stimulation options.
🎧 ADHD Emotions, Nervous System & Overlaps
🧠 Emotion Regulation in Autism and ADHD: A Nervous System View
How dysregulation works through the nervous system and why “calm down” advice often fails.
🧭 Proprioception & Interoception in ADHD & Autism
How body-sensing differences affect awareness of hunger, fatigue, tension, and “I didn’t notice until it hurt.”
🌊 ADHD Nervous System Dysregulation: Why Your Body Feels Unpredictable
Why your body can flip between wired and exhausted, and how stress and stimulation amplify it.
🔥 ADHD Stress Intolerance: Why Stress Hits You Harder
Why small stressors can create big reactions in ADHD—and what helps reduce the load.
🫥 ADHD Emotional Permanence: Why People Feel “Gone” When They’re Not in Front of You
Why connection can feel fragile when someone isn’t present and how to protect relationships from that gap.
🧨 ADHD Emotional Flashbacks: When Past Pain Feels Present
How intense emotions can pull old experiences into the present and what grounding can look like.
😰 ADHD Anxiety: When the Mind Never Fully Rests
How ADHD fuels worry loops through uncertainty, missed cues, and constant mental scanning.
😶🌫️ ADHD Social Anxiety: Why Social Interaction Feels Stressful or Unpredictable
Why social interaction can feel unsafe or unpredictable in ADHD and how nervous systems learn “social threat.”
🌧️ ADHD and Depression: Understanding the Overlap
How ADHD can increase depression risk through burnout, shame cycles, and chronic overload.
🧩 ADHD and Trauma: Understanding the Overlap
How trauma and ADHD can mimic or amplify each other—and why safety and regulation matter.
🌀 ADHD OCD Tendencies: Understanding the Overlap
How compulsive patterns and ADHD can interact, and why anxiety-driven control can increase.
💔 Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria: Why Rejection Hurts More with ADHD
Why rejection can feel physically painful and how to reduce spirals after perceived criticism.
🫧 Dissociation, ADHD Spacing Out or Shutdown? Understanding the Differences
How to tell apart zoning out, dissociation, and shutdown—and what each one needs.
⚡ ADHD and Pain Sensitivity: Why Pain Feels Different
Why pain can feel stronger, harder to ignore, or strangely delayed in ADHD.
🎧 ADHD Sensory Processing & Overload
How sound/light/touch and busy environments drain ADHD brains—and how overload builds.
🧵 ADHD and Textures: When Everyday Sensations Feel “Too Much”
Why texture sensitivity can trigger stress, avoidance, or irritability—and what accommodations help.
💥 ADHD and Anger: Why Reactions Feel Fast and Intense
Why anger can spike quickly in ADHD and how to slow the chain reaction without self-blame.
🌙 ADHD in Perimenopause: Brain Fog, Anxiety, and Executive Function Changes
How hormonal shifts can intensify ADHD symptoms like fog, overwhelm, and emotional volatility.
🩸 ADHD and PMDD: Why Symptoms Spike Before Your Period (and What Helps)
Why the premenstrual window can worsen ADHD and which supports can reduce the spike.
🧬 Hormones and ADHD: How the Menstrual Cycle, Perimenopause and HRT Affect Symptoms
A structured overview of how estrogen/progesterone shifts influence attention, mood, and executive function.
🤝 ADHD Relationships, Parenting & Social Life
💞 ADHD and Relationships: Patterns in Love and Conflict
Common relationship dynamics in ADHD—misattunement, overwhelm, repairs—and how to communicate better.
🎯 ADHD Hyperfocus in Relationships and Work
How hyperfocus can create intensity early on, then drop-off—and how to build steadier patterns.
🫥 ADHD Loneliness: Why You Feel Alone
Why ADHD can create disconnection through forgetfulness, shame, and social fatigue—and how to reconnect.
🎭 ADHD Masking in Social Life: Why It Exhausts You
How “performing normal” drains energy and increases burnout risk.
🎭 ADHD Masking: What It Is and How It Affects You
A deeper explainer of masking strategies, why they form, and how they impact identity and mental health.
👨👩👧 Parenting With ADHD: Executive Function, Emotional Reactivity and Realistic Supports
How ADHD affects parenting load and what realistic, guilt-free supports can help.
💞 Neurodivergent Love: Relationship Dynamics Across ADHD, Autism & AuDHD Pairings
How different neurotypes pair together in love—and how to reduce misinterpretation and conflict.
🧩 Navigating Neurodivergent Neurotypical Relationships
How ND/NT relationships can clash around expectations—and how to build translation, repair, and trust.
💼 ADHD Work, Study & Finances
💼 ADHD Career Tips For Job Success
Practical ways to choose roles, structure tasks, and advocate for what your ADHD brain needs at work.
🏢 ADHD at Work: Why Office Life Drains You
Why offices overload ADHD (noise, interruptions, switching) and how to protect focus and energy.
💳 ADHD Impulse Spending vs Dopamine Spending
The difference between true impulse buys and “dopamine chasing”—and how to interrupt both patterns.
💰 ADHD and Finances: Executive Function, Impulse Spending and Money Shame
Why money management is hard in ADHD and how to build systems that reduce shame and friction.
🎓 50 Tips for High School with ADHD & Anxiety Symptoms
Practical school supports for attention, stress, planning, studying, and social overwhelm.
🌙 ADHD Sleep, Energy & Daily Rythms
🌙 ADHD Sleep Dysregulation: Why You Can’t Wind Down
Why your brain stays “on” at night and what helps shift from activation to shutdown.
😴 ADHD Sleep Problems: Why Falling Asleep Takes So Long
How delayed sleep, racing thoughts, and sensory restlessness keep ADHD brains awake.
🛌 ADHD Bedtime Procrastination: Why You Stay Up Even When You’re Exhausted
Why sleep can feel like “giving up control” and how to make bedtime easier to start.
🫁 Sleep Apnea, ADHD and Brain Fog
How sleep apnea can mimic or worsen ADHD symptoms like fatigue, fog, and irritability.
🌊 ADHD Motivation Cycles: Why Energy and Drive Come in Waves
Why motivation is interest- and emotion-driven in ADHD—and how to plan for the wave pattern.
🧰 ADHD Tips and Tools
🧑🤝🧑 Body Doubling for ADHD: Why It Works + 10 Ways to Use It Today
Why “someone there” regulates attention and initiation—and easy ways to use it immediately.
🧰 100 ADHD Daily Life Tips
A broad menu of small, real-world changes for routines, home, relationships, and energy.
🎯 100 ADHD Focus Tips
Quick focus strategies that reduce friction and increase “task contact” without willpower battles.
🎬 Top 25 Movies That Accurately Portray ADHD Symptoms
A curated list of ADHD portrayals, with notes on what they capture well in real ADHD experience.
ADHD | Scientific References
🧠 ADHD General & Prevalence
Faraone, S. V., et al. (2021).
The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 evidence‑based conclusions about the disorder
Large consensus paper summarising what is firmly known about ADHD: nature, course, causes, brain findings and treatment.
Thomas, R., Sanders, S., Doust, J., Beller, E., & Glasziou, P. (2015).
Prevalence of attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review and meta‑analysis
Global meta‑analysis estimating ADHD prevalence at around 7.2 percent in children and adolescents.
Willcutt, E. G. (2012).
The prevalence of DSM‑IV attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a meta‑analytic review
Classic meta‑analysis summarising ADHD prevalence across many studies and methods.
Mahone, E. M., & Denckla, M. B. (2017).
Attention‑Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Historical Neuropsychological Perspective
Reviews how our understanding of ADHD has evolved, including executive function, delay aversion and brain imaging work.
🧬 ADHD Genetics & Neurobiology
Faraone, S. V., & Larsson, H. (2019).
Genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Explains ADHD’s high heritability and what large genetic studies reveal about risk variants.
Demontis, D., et al. (2019).
Discovery of the first genome‑wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Landmark GWAS identifying the first robust ADHD risk loci and genes.
Demontis, D., et al. (2023).
Genome‑wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains
Updated mega‑analysis expanding ADHD risk loci and connecting them to brain development and cognition.
Shaw, P., et al. (2007).
Attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder is characterized by a delay in cortical maturation
Imaging study showing that cortical maturation, especially in attention‑related regions, is delayed in children with ADHD.
🎯 ADHD Executive Functioning
Nigg, J. T. (2005).
Neuropsychologic theory and findings in attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder: the state of the field and salient challenges for the coming decade
Major review tying ADHD symptoms to executive functions, motivation, state regulation and timing.
Toplak, M. E., Jain, U., & Tannock, R. (2005).
Executive and motivational processes in adolescents with Attention‑Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Examines how executive function and motivation jointly contribute to difficulties in teens with ADHD.
Hart, H., Radua, J., Nakao, T., Mataix‑Cols, D., & Rubia, K. (2013).
Meta‑analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of inhibition and attention in ADHD
fMRI meta‑analysis showing consistent fronto‑striatal and fronto‑parietal differences during inhibition tasks.
Noreika, V., Falter, C. M., & Rubia, K. (2013).
Timing deficits in attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): evidence from neurocognitive and neuroimaging studies
Reviews evidence that many people with ADHD have difficulties with timing, time estimation and temporal foresight
🎧 ADHD Sensory Processing
Ghanizadeh, A. (2011).
Sensory processing problems in children with ADHD, a systematic review
Summarises research showing that sensory over‑responsivity and under‑responsivity are common but under‑recognised in ADHD.
Jurek, L., et al. (2025).
Sensory Processing in Individuals With Attention‑Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Compares sensory profiles of people with ADHD to typical controls, showing increased sensitivity, avoidance and sensory seeking
🌊 ADHD Emotional Regulation
Shaw, P., Stringaris, A., Nigg, J., & Leibenluft, E. (2014).
Emotion dysregulation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Review proposing models of how ADHD and emotion dysregulation interact at neural and behavioural levels.
Graziano, P. A., & Garcia, A. (2016).
Attention‑deficit hyperactivity disorder and children’s emotion dysregulation: a meta‑analysis
Meta‑analysis showing that children with ADHD have significant difficulties with emotional reactivity and modulation.
Martel, M. M. (2009).
Research review: a new perspective on attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder: emotion dysregulation and trait models
Argues that ADHD can be understood partly as extreme temperament and trait patterns, especially negative emotionality and low control.
Bunford, N., Evans, S. W., & Wymbs, F. (2015).
ADHD and emotion dysregulation among children and adolescents
Integrates evidence linking ADHD, emotion regulation difficulties and functional outcomes across development
ADHD | Organizations
🤝 ADHD Advocacy & Practical Support
🧠 CHADD – Children & Adults with ADHD
Leading nonprofit with education, advocacy, local chapters, and practical resources for all ages.
🧭 ADDA – Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Adult-ADHD focused nonprofit with webinars, peer groups, virtual programs, and coaching-related resources.
🇬🇧 ADHD UK
UK charity offering reliable information, awareness work, and support navigation for people affected by ADHD.
🌏 ADHD Australia
National advocacy and education charity working on awareness, policy, and better access to ADHD support.
🇨🇦 CADDAC – Centre for ADHD Awareness, Canada
Canada’s national ADHD charity focused on awareness, education, and advocacy for individuals and families.
🇪🇺 ADHD Europe
European umbrella organization representing ADHD advocacy groups and amplifying ADHD awareness across Europe.
🧑🤝🧑 ADHDadultUK
UK registered charity providing peer-led support, resources, and community for adults with ADHD.
🧩 ADHD Foundation – The Neurodiversity Charity (UK)
UK charity offering lifespan neurodiversity support, training, and resources (including ADHD).
🎒 Understood
Nonprofit resource hub for learning and thinking differences (including ADHD), especially helpful for families and educators.
📰 ADDitude Magazine
Expert-led articles, webinars, and practical strategies for ADHD across life stages.
🏥 ADHD Public Health & National Care
🏥 CDC – ADHD
Public health information on symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and data/resources.
💼 NHS – ADHD in adults
Trusted overview of adult ADHD, including getting a diagnosis and management options.
🧒 NHS – ADHD in children & young people
Trusted overview of ADHD in children/teens, including symptoms, diagnosis, and support.
📘 NICE – ADHD guideline (NG87)
UK clinical guideline covering recognition, diagnosis, and management of ADHD.
🧠 NIMH – ADHD
National Institute of Mental Health resources on ADHD, research, and treatment information.
🎯 ADHD Research & Professional Bodies
🔬 ADHD Evidence Project
Curates and translates high-quality ADHD research into evidence-based conclusions and summaries.
📊 EBI-ADHD (Evidence-Based Interventions for ADHD)
Interactive evidence matrix comparing treatment benefits and tolerability across interventions and age groups.
📘 European ADHD Guidelines Group (EAGG)
Produces evidence-based clinical recommendations for ADHD in Europe.
🌐 EUNETHYDIS – The European Network for ADHD
European research network supporting high-quality ADHD science and collaboration.
🌍 World Federation of ADHD (WFADHD)
Global federation bringing together regional associations to disseminate ADHD education and improve outcomes.
🇦🇺 AADPA – Australasian ADHD Professionals Association
Professional association supporting ADHD education, policy development, and evidence-based practice.
🧑⚕️ APSARD
Multidisciplinary professional society promoting ADHD research and evidence-based education/practice.
🧩 CADDRA – Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance
Professional alliance producing Canadian practice tools and resources for ADHD care.
🧑💼 ADHD Coaches Organization (ACO)
Worldwide professional membership organization for ADHD coaches and coaching standards/resources.
🧑🤝🧑 PAAC – Professional Association for ADHD Coaches
Professional body defining competencies and credentialing standards for ADHD coaching.
🎓 ADHD Congress (World Congress on ADHD)
International congress focused on disseminating ADHD science and clinical knowledge.
