Gentle, Practical Advice for AuDHD Life.
Welcome to AuDHDly Specific — a soft space for people with ADHD, autism, or both.
This blog shares practical tips, personal stories, and low-pressure guides to help you work with your brain, not against it. Whether you’re navigating executive dysfunction, food noise, masking burnout, or just want clothes that don’t drive you mad, you’ll find something here that feels like a deep breath out.
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AuDHD: Different Diagnoses, Shared Neurotype?
There is a growing conversation happening in neurodivergent spaces. What if autism and ADHD are not just coexisting conditions, but different expressions of the same underlying neurotype? Not identical. But maybe not as separate as we have been told. The comorbidity statistics are hard to ignore. Between fifty…
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The Dog Walking Bum Bag That Changed My Life and Saved My Pockets
A love letter to hands-free dog parenting, sensory-friendly storage, and never holding a warm poo bag again. There are moments in life where you find something so weirdly perfect for your needs that it feels like fate — or at least a well-timed Amazon recommendation. For me, that…
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How to Make a Fitness Challenge Actually Work for You (When You Have AuDHD)
Because typical fitness advice doesn’t account for boredom, sensory hell, or executive dysfunction. I used to love the idea of fitness challenges. That first week where everything is shiny and new? Sign me up. Then week two rolls in and suddenly I’m resenting the thing I was obsessed…
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AuDHD Shutdowns vs Meltdowns
What They Feel Like and Why It Matters Why we need to talk about this Shutdowns and meltdowns are common in AuDHD (autism + ADHD), but they’re often misunderstood, mislabelled, or missed entirely. These aren’t tantrums or dramatic outbursts. They’re nervous system responses. And understanding them changes everything.…
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An Info-Dump About Saffron – And How She Changed My Life
Because she’s more than just a dog. This is your warning, this post is emotional, mushy, chaotic, and very dog-heavy. But if you know, you know. Some animals aren’t just pets, they become anchors. Saffron is mine. Who is Saffron? Saffron is my retired guide dog. She’s a…
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Things I’ve Stopped Forcing Myself to Do (And Life Got Better)
Permission to stop pretending you’re someone you’re not. There’s a long list of things I thought I should be doing, because “normal” people do them, because influencers swear by them, or because some part of me thought they’d make me a better human. Spoiler: they didn’t. Here’s what…