New meta-analysis, 18,000+ adults: ADHD links to meaningfully higher anxiety scores. The catch: the gap size depends entirely on who you're compared to. Same anxiety can read as severe or unremarkable depending on the room. Breakdown on Substack. https://tinyurl.com/t8kwc3r9

New study: 15 adults with ADHD and anorexia nervosa. Finding: the conditions interact, not just coexist. Hyperfocus does restriction's job. Malnutrition quiets ADHD just enough to make stopping feel unsafe. Full breakdown on Substack. https://tinyurl.com/46ebwuve

Executive dysfunction is NOT laziness. Lazy is a choice. Executive dysfunction is not. #adhd #autism #neurodivergent #executivedysfunction #squirreldad

New research: grief in autistic and ADHD people frequently goes unrecognized, by the person feeling it and everyone around them, because it doesn't always look like grief is supposed to. Includes grief that starts before a death during caregiving. Breakdown on Substack. https://tinyurl.com/3ebybn5j

Rejection sensitivity dysphoria explained. Not-so-fun fact: 99 of ADHD people have to deal with it #adhd #autism #rejectionsensitivedysphoria #rsd #squirreldad

In all reality, I did it to myself because, in my head, I was gonna be there. Oops. I hate plan changes!!! #adhd #autism #neurodivergent #squirreldad #squirrelgang🐿

Aphantasia is more common in autistic and ADHD people. A 2025 study connects it to reduced emotional awareness and thinner memory recall. If visualization therapy has never worked, there may be a specific reason. Breakdown on Substack. https://tinyurl.com/mbwvhk3y

New research: 76% of adults with ADHD met insomnia criteria. The specific predictor was limited access to regulation strategies. Knowing you're dysregulated and having something that works are two different problems. Breakdown on Substack. https://tinyurl.com/mtnkcucc

Autistic grief is real. It presents as behavioral changes, withdrawal, emotional flatness. It gets called regression. The research calls it disenfranchised grief. There's a difference. https://tinyurl.com/3nvzna4s

The Lancet just mapped the dose-response curve for every major ADHD medication. Most patients have never seen this data. Full breakdown at https://tinyurl.com/m8duh5rd

"High-functioning" measures your performance in neurotypical environments. It doesn't measure what that performance costs. Today's Scholar Series article is free. https://tinyurl.com/yr2jbn4c

Adults with ADHD face nearly double the occupational injury risk at work. New research. Personal story. What actually helps. Scholar Series is live https://tinyurl.com/5yuw6wrj

New neurophysiology research found different brain signatures in males and females with #ADHD. The diagnostic framework was built on boys. The late-diagnosis community knew this. The research is catching up. https://tinyurl.com/mpd8m67p

The ADHD dopamine system is also the pain modulation system. Lower thresholds, altered expression, unreliable interoceptive reporting. The pain is real. The nervous system just has trouble reporting it accurately. https://tinyurl.com/5fs5fme8

Kids with tic disorders had 2.64 odds of school bullying and cyberbullying victimization in a study of nearly 5,000 children. That risk held after adjusting for #ADHD. The tics themselves are the variable. https://tinyurl.com/3muf9jhm

New research finds ADHD traits in childhood predicted more physical health conditions, higher multimorbidity odds, and greater disability at 46. Mediated through smoking, BMI, and psychological distress. All three trace back to the ADHD. The body was keeping score. https://tinyurl.com/zk44dz9r

New research compared ADHD, ADHD + emotional dysreg, ED without ADHD, & healthy controls. Exec dys tracked w/ ADHD. Negative emotionality tracked with ED. The emotional dimension is not ADHD severity. It's a separate system. More in my Substack: https://tinyurl.com/3wa462k9

New research: Higher childhood ADHD traits predicted persistently high distress into midlife. The mechanism wasn't just the neurology. Health exclusion, relational exclusion, & economic exclusion were documented indirect pathways. The system's failure causes the harm https://tinyurl.com/4eucd95m

New research on #ADHD teenagers and extracurricular activities: by ages 15 to 18 the participation gap with non-ADHD peers mostly closes. But which activities you pick matters more than whether you participate. The domain breakdown is the useful part. https://tinyurl.com/593azpyr

I’m still around! The best way to follow my advocacy is thru my Substack articles. #adhd #autism #squirreldad #neurodivergent #advocacy #greenscreen

Over 1.2 million people with #ADHD across 8 countries. Treatment drops hardest at 18 to 19. Same pattern everywhere. The system does not fail these kids by accident. It fails them by design. https://tinyurl.com/5scs7k65

People with ADHD report cannabis helps. The controlled research mostly does not confirm it as a treatment. Both are consistently true across decades of data. The full evidence picture is what almost nobody is telling straight on 420. https://tinyurl.com/mr3sbd9c

43 studies on neurodiverse kids and nature. The mechanism isn't burning off energy. It's that natural environments engage the kind of attention that doesn't cost anything, which is exactly what an #ADHD brain needs after a full day of the kind that costs everything. https://tinyurl.com/4hmaxf6n

My apology to those that I offended. Ok, not really 😏🤪 #abpoli #abpolitics #ucp #cpc #lpc

ADHD plus anxiety isn't additive. It has its own cognitive profile. New research identified the specific control system that breaks down when both are present. Worth knowing if you work with kids, or if you are one grown up. https://tinyurl.com/m2xu28c5

Dark humour in autistic brains is doing three jobs simultaneously: emotional bypass, pressure release, and in-group signal. Research confirms it works. Also confirms it can backfire. Knowing which job the joke is doing is the actual skill. tinyurl.com/yvn3cyff

New research confirms what ADHD brains have been doing intuitively for years. Music isn't a distraction from focus. For a lot of us, it's the only reason focus was possible at all. https://tinyurl.com/7fsm2dk7

The 2022-2023 ADHD medication shortage was caused by supply chain failure, not overprescribing. A 2026 Yale/JAMA study found only 70% of production quotas met because they couldn't get raw materials. 1/3 of US pharmaceutical ingredients came from a single facility. https://tinyurl.com/324h29de

A Stay Free Alberta canvasser came to my door asking me to sign their sovereignty petition. 😆 This isn’t patriotism. It’s grievance politics, xenophobia in a nicer hat, and fantasy economics wrapped in a flag. And bitching about immigrants on treaty land? That’s the irony Olympics. #abpoli

We borrowed the masking framework from autism and applied it to ADHD without validating it. Problem: masking requires the exact executive skills ADHD impairs. ADHD concealment is real. The framework might not fit. New Scholar Series article https://tinyurl.com/bdesu5bc