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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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🎒 School tips
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5 tips for taking better notes in class
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10 tips for staying focused when learning from home
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A guide to having hard conversations with your teacher
📚 Classroom highs and lows
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Math class… the perfect time to write a novel
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Teachers never understood me—and that’s OK
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Corona versus my college fall semester
👨🏻💻 Job tips
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Being open about dyslexia at my job is an advantage
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3 helpful articles for job hunting during the coronavirus pandemic
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Office lingo? Allow me to translate
💼 Career compass
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Quiz: Find your career superstar
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40+ career examples of people who learn and think differently
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4 jobs, ADHD, and a big transition
🤔 What am I good at?
🤣 Funnies and memes
⚡️ Life hacks
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How the Five-Second Rule changed my ADHD life
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How I beat my social media habit (and how you can too)
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How to build confidence when you know you’re different
😬 Anxiety
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A drawing of my anxiety in the classroom
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8 ways I manage anxiety from my learning disability
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Anxiety Mimi started with math but became much more
🗣 Motivate yourself
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Don’t let your pride get in the way of asking for help in school
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Perspectives: Why should people talk openly about learning differences?
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How self-advocacy helped me fight for my rights in college
🤯 Life is hard
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Why this Black boy couldn’t ask for help
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This is what job hunting with ADHD feels like to me
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Needles on my brain dyslexia art
🗞 In the news
💪 What ____ is like
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What ADHD feels like to me
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6 surprising ways dyslexia affects me
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I’m finally letting go of the shame of ADHD and learning disabilities
👩🏽⚕️ The D word (diagnosis)
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