25. Navigating workplace conflict with ADHD 🌶️ 🤐

Your ADHD Besties

Hi very beautiful neurodivergent brains!

This week, we’re watering our fake plants and celebrating our birthdays like the indulgent little princes we are!

Dilemma 1: Our lovely listener Kerri feels like she comes across as intimidating, and it’s triggering her RSD. We chat about advocating for ADHD in the workplace and embracing your unique intensity while also showing your softer side. Remember, two things can be true: you can be passionate and intense and also a kind/gentle person!

Dilemma 2: A cute little Bimbo Marshall comes out of the woodwork with a question about phone calls and the stress of feeling disconnected to the person on the other end, almost like she’s talking to a disembodied voice. We discuss the challenges of emotional processing and body language on calls, and why many ADHDers find emailing and texting way easier than chatting on the phone.

We dive into some practical tips for how to escape those moments when you’re feeling “chat-trapped” and mananging the overwhelm of keeping the conversation going like calming your nervous system right before the call, using social scripts—like chatting about the weather to ease into the conversation and Grace gives the 'untip’ of calling when the background noise is terrible and just blaming it on that!

Ireggy Seggy: It’s time for “ADHD or NAYDHD: The Zoo Edition”! Expect possum testicles, kangaroo gazing, tortoise tickling, and our new obsession with the Aye-Aye!

Recommendations:

• Grace recommends: MCo Beauty Grip Primer Link and Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Primer Link.
• Tara recommends: An insightful article by her hero Christy Harrison on evaluating the quality of science behind supplements Link.

We will be back in your insanely gorgeous ears next THURSDAY

and until then DON’T RSD

LOVE!

Tara and Grace xxx

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