About this episode

Caroline Maguire discusses friendship skills for neurodivergent adults and the impulsive friendship cycle often experienced by those with ADHD.

--- Join the Declutter Challenge! Registration is now open through May 15! https://takecontroladhd.com/declutter --- If you've ever given everything to a friendship and been left wondering what went wrong, Caroline Maguire has a gentle but clarifying answer: you probably gave too much, too soon, to someone who hadn't yet earned it. That's not a character flaw — it's the ADHD brain doing what it does when it finally finds someone who sees it. The dopamine hit of new connection can tip straight into hyperfocus, and suddenly you're all-in on a relationship that hasn't had time to prove itself. Caroline calls it the impulsive friendship cycle, and she has spent years helping neurodivergent adults find their way out of it. Caroline is a social emotional learning expert, ADHD coach, and author of the award-winning Why Will No One Play With Me . Her new book, Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults , arrives April 14th — and it's not another book that asks you to fix yourself to fit a friendship model built for someone else's social battery. Instead, she starts with a reframe that carries the whole conversation: our friendship struggles are not a personal failing. They're a…

People in this episode

Host: TruStory FM

Guest: Caroline Maguire

Topics covered

• friendship skills
• neurodivergent adults
• ADHD
• social emotional learning
• relationship building

Keywords

• ADHD
• friendship
• neurodivergent
• social skills
• relationship dynamics

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Why Will No One Play With Me, Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults

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