By Catherine Mutti-Driscoll, PhD
Director of Executive Function Coaching, Hallowell Todaro ADHD Center
It isn’t easy being a mom with ADHD. Once we become mothers, the gendered expectations ramp up, the demands on our executive functioning skills (brain-based skills that help us get things done) skyrocket, and access to downtime becomes almost nonexistent. Women are placed in an unwinnable bind, often told they need to work like they don’t have children and parents like they don’t work.
Adding to these challenges, many women who are moms today weren’t diagnosed and treated with ADHD at a young age, if at all. Many women with ADHD remain undiagnosed as they enter a new and demanding life phase, some only finding out they have ADHD when their child receives a diagnosis. Many undiagnosed women with ADHD coped with their challenges with the unsustainable strategies of perfectionism, people-pleasing, and self-medicating, and as a result, moms with ADHD can easily buckle under the increased responsibility and pressures of motherhood.
So what’s an ADHD mom to do? Here are a few tips.
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