Description
💡 Course introduction: Practical support for the overlap
This course is for adults who recognize themselves in the push-pull of AuDHD. You may need structure and still resist it, need stimulation and still get overwhelmed by it, want connection and still need recovery afterward, or understand exactly what matters and still struggle to begin. The goal of this course is not to “fix” you or make you force yourself harder. It is to help you understand the overlap more clearly and build support that actually fits.
A lot of advice is built for autism or ADHD separately. This course focuses on what happens when both patterns interact in the same life, the same day, and sometimes the same moment. Instead of giving one generic answer, it looks at the real friction points the overlap creates and asks a more useful question: what kind of help fits this version of the problem?
🧠 In this course, you’ll learn to
🔍 Notice your main AuDHD friction patterns earlier
🛠 Match support to state, context, and hidden cost
🌙 Take recovery, burnout risk, and capacity shifts more seriously
🧱 Build systems that are more flexible and more restartable
💬 Explain your needs more clearly and ask for more fitting support
Each lesson focuses on one practical part of AuDHD life. Some lessons help you understand what is happening in the moment, like overload, shutdown, emotional spirals, or task-entry friction. Other lessons focus on longer-run support, like routines, work fit, boundaries, provider fit, and building a personal support plan that can actually survive real life.
This course is also meant to work as an overlap-focused base. If one side of the overlap becomes especially important for you, you can use this course alongside deeper support focused more specifically on autism or ADHD. But the main focus here stays on the combined pattern: the contradiction, the switching, the hidden cost, and the kinds of support that often work better when both sides are taken seriously at the same time.
🗺 In this course, we’ll cover
🧭 Lesson 1 — Why AuDHD Support Has to Fit
🎧 Lesson 2 — Sensory Regulation, Overload, Underactivation, and Shutdown
⚙️ Lesson 3 — Executive Function, Prioritization, Transitions, and Restart
🏠 Lesson 4 — Flexible Systems, Routines, and an AuDHD-Friendly Home
💼 Lesson 5 — Work, Study, Deadlines, and Accommodations
💥 Lesson 6 — Emotional Regulation, Self-Trust, and High-Masking Cost
🗣 Lesson 7 — Communication, Asking for Help, Boundaries, and Social Recovery
🔋 Lesson 8 — Capacity, Burnout Prevention, and Recovery Time
🧪 Lesson 9 — Build, Test, and Troubleshoot Your Personal Support Plan
💡 Key takeaways
🧠 AuDHD often needs more precise support than generic advice assumes
⚖️ Mixed needs can both be real at the same time
🛠 Better support usually starts with better matching, not more force
💛 The goal is not perfection — it is a more workable life with support that fits
