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Content from people who learn and think differently
We have differences like ADHD, dyslexia, learning disabilities, anxiety, and more. Here’s our advice for how to thrive in school, work, and life.
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Explore topics
🎒 School tips
10 tips for staying focused when learning from home
A guide to having hard conversations with your teacher
📚 Classroom highs and lows
Teachers never understood me—and that’s OK
Corona versus my college fall semester
👨🏻💻 Job tips
3 helpful articles for job hunting during the coronavirus pandemic
Office lingo? Allow me to translate
💼 Career compass
40+ career examples of people who learn and think differently
4 jobs, ADHD, and a big transition
🤔 What am I good at?
🤣 Funnies and memes
ADHD memes
How I feel when I write a paper
⚡️ Life hacks
How I beat my social media habit (and how you can too)
How to build confidence when you know you’re different
😬 Anxiety
8 ways I manage anxiety from my learning disability
Anxiety Mimi started with math but became much more
🗣 Motivate yourself
Perspectives: Why should people talk openly about learning differences?
How self-advocacy helped me fight for my rights in college
🤯 Life is hard
This is what job hunting with ADHD feels like to me
Needles on my brain dyslexia art
🗞 In the news
💪 What ____ is like
6 surprising ways dyslexia affects me
I’m finally letting go of the shame of ADHD and learning disabilities
👩🏽⚕️ The D word (diagnosis)
The story of my ADHD evaluation in college
Perspectives: How did you find out you learn and think differently?
Contributor spotlight
- In the workforce
- DJ/artist, software developer; a blend of nature and technology
- Differences: ADHD, anxiety, hyperthyroidism
- In grad school
- Passionate about advocacy, education reform, and community
- Differences: Dyslexia, dyscalculia (math), ADHD
- In college
- Camp counselor, theater addict
- Differences: ADHD, processing speed, dysgraphia (writing)
- In college
- Premed student, philosophy enthusiast, table tennis fan
- Differences: ADHD
- In the workforce
- Muay Thai fighter, freelance artist, loves to create
- Differences: ADHD, OCD, anxiety, physical challenges, avoiding self-sabotag
- In grad school
- Expert in all things self-advocacy
- Differences: Dyscalculia (math), anxiety
- In the workforce
- Published author, advocate for better representation of queer people of color
- Differences: ADHD, dyslexia
- In the workforce
- Writing books since 2008, avid comic book and cosplay fan
- Differences: Dyslexia, anxiety
- In the workforce (Understood staff)
- Aspiring comedian
- Differences: ADHD, OCD
- In the workforce (Understood staff)
- Obsessed with 3D animation, bass player in a band (The Ophelias)
- Differences: ADHD, trouble with math
- In the workforce
- Candidate for public office, freelancer writer, passionate about education reform
- Differences: ADHD
- In the workforce
- Preschool teacher; loves watercolors, cooking, and writing poetry
- Differences: Dyslexia, processing speed
- Starting college
- Focused on becoming a world-class journalist, enjoys sports and video games
- Differences: ADHD, autism, social anxiety