Enetarch - Leadership

I’ve always felt that indifference is a huge obstacle of positive change, and we are powerful together if we keep caring. About injustice, the world, each other. Life is tough, and some days you barely have the energy to care for yourself- I get it. But please, please, let’s continue to care deeply about inequality and justice. I don’t think the world can be a better place until we make it better for all of us.

For everyone in the US, if you haven’t already, register to vote and sign up for a mail-in ballot if you’re planning to! If you want an easy and inexpensive way to help more, I’ve signed up to write letters to encourage people to vote this election at votefwd.org! I know a lot of people feel too defeated to vote, but your vote matters so much, more now than ever. We can all make a difference together.

Call for Videos

I'm not sure if it's ADDitude Magazine or a member of their FaceBook Group that is working on this project, but I think it's a great idea. Let's begin recording what ADHD is like and build a documentary on ADHD.

The initial call was for objectives for the video. What should the video show about ADHD? Since, I'm maintaining a blog on Working With ADHD, here are some suggestions I thought should be included.

How a single event can redirect an ADHDr making us look scattered and kaotic, distracted and disconnected, overwhelmed or hyperfocused

How events change an ADHDrs feelings in real time.

How unlike an NT we can't shunt emotions

That there are 3 types of events ADHDrs deal with .. external, internal monologue, and internal sensations which can't be consciously felt, yet affect us emotionally

How ADHDrs can ride off someone else's emotional high to work on a project

How ADHDrs are motivated by positive events

How ADHDrs avoid negative events

How a negative event causes ADHD thought depression storms

How a single strong positive event can terminate a thought depression storm

How externalizing things helps us remember

How using emojis helps us see what emotion we are assigning to tasks

How reframing a task or event can allow us to do the task

How getting a running head start w positive events can allow us to see a negative task as a challenge

How life gets better as you begin curating positive events

How ADHDrs are willing to accept greater challenges and responsibilities as well have positive outcomes

How ADHDrs have associative memories

How ADHDrs study

How ADHDrs are spontaneous yet unable to complete a project

How ADHDrs feel frustrated and restricted by their disorder

How ADHDrs become exhausted by just trying

How ADHDrs become time blind

What an ADHDrs inner monologue is like

How an ADHDrs mind matures over time, thus motor control develops at a different rate than executive function.

How we are Hyper Aware of everything happening around us, even if we don't react.

Why ADHDrs have so few friends.

How .. Out of Sight, Out of Mind .. Works

Why / How it is hard for an ADHDr to commit to time tables

How ADHD isolates and ADHDr

What it's like to live in an ADHD house filled with projects and organized clutter

How ADHD makes ADHDrs feel

How NTs view us

How NTs feel about the excuse of ADHD

My recommendation for video clips ..

Keep them to 1 or 2 topics listed above.

Keep them to 2 to 3 minutes in length.

Focus on showing / demonstrating the topics of ADHD.

Read what others are suggesting at ...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/additudemag/permalink/10161679442767837

Post your videos to group ..

https://www.facebook.com/groups/additudemag/

Building Community

If you want to build a community you are proud to call home in, then demonstrate what good behavior is, and spank those who exhibit bad behavior.

And, I do mean .. litterally ... Spank. It's still allowed at all ages, for all genders.

6 Fortune Cookies

You and your little one will go shopping again at the grocery store.

You will buy 6 different colored fruit drinks or KoolAid mixes and berries

You will buy wooden sticks, plastic wrap, rubber bands, and small tupperware glasses.

You will dump the different fruits and drinks into the tupperware containers

You will have your little one cover each container with plastic wrap and rubber bands

You will poke holes through the plastic with wooden sticks and use them for handles

You will place the tupperware containers in the freezer

And, you will enjoy them in 2 hours =)

Issues

We need to teach people how to discuss issues, discuss how an issue affects them, and discuss solutions.