Permission Slips You Keep Waiting For

About this episode

The episode discusses the permission slips ADHDers wait for and the impact of external validation on their lives.

--- Register today for our upcoming webinar: Webinar: Stop Starting Over! Why Your Planning Keeps Falling Apart — June 15, 2026, 4 pm PT/7 pm ET https://takecontroladhd.com/gps --- There's a kind of waiting most ADHDers know well — waiting for someone, somewhere, to say it's okay. Okay to rest. Okay to stop masking. Okay to take the accommodation. Okay to want what you want without justifying it. In this conversation, we get into the permission slips we keep waiting for, often from authority figures who may not even exist anymore. We talk about why ADHDers wait — the research-backed link between years of childhood correction and adult reliance on external validation — and what that has to do with decision paralysis, rejection sensitivity, masking, and the exhaustion of performing a version of yourself that you didn't sign up for. Plus the swan, self-determination theory, and a small concrete first step you can try this week. Links & Notes Download The ADHD Permission Slip! Support the Show on Patreon Dig into the podcast Shownotes Database (00:00) - Welcome to Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast (02:13) - Patreon.com/TheADHDPodcast (03:23) - Your Permission Slips ★ Support this…

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Topics covered

• ADHD
• permission
• validation
• self-determination
• decision paralysis
• rejection sensitivity

Keywords

• ADHD
• permission slips
• external validation
• self-determination theory
• decision paralysis
• rejection sensitivity

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Organizations: TruStory FM

Books & works: The ADHD Permission Slip

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