Ep. 102 — ADHD Confidence and Complex Kids: “Specialists Living in a Generalist World”
About this episode
The episode discusses building confidence and navigating the challenges of parenting complex kids with ADHD.
This week we kept sitting in Chapter 3 of The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids and somehow ended up talking about adulting, perfectionism, boundaries, and why confidence feels like something you have to build brick by brick. It started with a Maya Angelou quote about success being liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. And honestly, that one hits different when you are parenting a complex kid or trying to reparent yourself with an ADHD brain. Megan shared the story of her “I Love Me” book, which began during a really hard season when she realized she did not even like herself. What started as a way to survive slowly became something softer. Over time it turned into proof that joy could exist without perfection. And then, ten years later, she added a page just because it made her happy. No fixing. No compensating. Just joy. Which is funny because sometimes the most radical thing you can do as a neurodivergent human is glue down a slightly crooked photo and let it be crooked. Then the conversation shifted to being a specialist in a generalist world. What happens when your ADHD brain does not write in five paragraph essays and the world insists that it…
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