Just finished the first section of my ADHD Snapshot and realized something. I've known my brain worked differently since I was a child, and the belief I've carried that "I don't know many things" might not be about intelligence at all. It might just be how my brain stores information. Going deeper.

just wondering. after a post I just read here, would it be worth compiling a softer book list that we all have found helpful in supporting our neurodiverse brains? I have bought many books ( a friend of mine says she can retrace parts of my life with whole sections of them). Knowing what I know now, many would have not walked out of teh shop with me or made it into my Amazon basket. what do you think guys (includes ladies, need to find a better term, oh I know, Pips?)

As promised, here are a few reads that stayed with me over the years. Not because they were “nice books”. But because each one left a fingerprint on how I think, feel, and move through life. Psycho-Cybernetics (Maxwell Maltz) This one taught me that self image runs everything. If you keep “seeing yourself” as the person who quits, procrastinates, or disappoints, you will keep living that loop. Change the inner picture, and behavior starts to follow. The Untethered Soul (Michael A. Singer) Big reminder: you are not the voice in your head. You are the one who hears it. When I really started practicing that, the mental noise lost a lot of power. The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle) I read this while traveling in Thailand and I applied it immediately. It was honestly bizarre how quickly you can feel the difference when you stop living inside “later” or “what if” and return to the present. It was one of the first times I experienced peace as something practical, not philosophical. The Expectation Effect (David Robson) This gave me a grounded, research-backed way to understand something we all feel: what you expect shapes what you experience. He uses practical examples and data around placebo and nocebo effects, where positive expectations can improve outcomes and negative expectations can worsen them. Mastery (Robert Greene) This book helped me connect the dots back to childhood. Greene argues your “Life’s Task” often leaves clues early on, in what you were naturally drawn to before the world told you what was “useful.” What hit me most is how many masters went through a real shift after years of apprenticeship. A phase where they stopped copying and started experimenting, and something more intuitive and original switched on. He uses biographies of people like Darwin and Einstein to show that pattern. Reality Transurfing (Vadim Zeland) This one goes deeper for me than “just think positive.” The idea that stuck is reducing “importance.” The more you overcharge a goal with pressure, identity, or desperation, the more you create inner tension and weird resistance. Another concept is “pendulums,” basically dramas or group energies that try to hook your attention. When you stop feeding them with emotional charge, you get your energy back and you move cleaner.

D1: Biggest insight/what landed: Its not that I necessarily have 1 open loop, but multiple. There's this resounding echo of my inner dialogue where, we are aware that there's these bleeding shame, guilt, fear of being seen, rejection open wounds that have yet to heal(after all these years but thats the work we're doing, takes time), so the not enough, not ready yet, I'm behind, not wanted stories I tell myself my right mind know this is all false, yet there's somewhere buried deep a belief of these things. The work for myself is to shake that sh*t up, detach, rewire, reprogram, relearn and somewhere along the way trick my brain into *knowing* I'm worthy, capable, and can do hard things and actually acknowledging the evidence that has shown itself throughout the years to counteract those rooted beasts. My open loop is: chipping away at my school classes one godforsaken lesson(at minimum) at a time. One word for how I feel right now: hopeful🙃 and delulu

Just started the ADHD Awakening Assessment and realized the "Just Do It" thing I've battled my whole life isn't a discipline problem. My brain runs on interest and momentum, not willpower. Every planner and program I "failed" was built for a different operating system than mine. 🙏🏻💜🙇🏻‍♀️😌