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Why is the ADHD industry so obsessed with executive function and ADHD? Executive functioning skills can easily be hacked or outsourced, and here are some ADHD tips to help.

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Please consider supporting my Patreon   / martarose   , where I am doing research for a book about why I believe ADHD and autism should not be considered pathologies. In particular, I am taking a critical look at science behind the concept of "Executive Function" and its misuses in the ADHD and Autism Industries. All of my content is available to all patrons, no matter the tier, and you can support me for as little as $1/month.

This channel looks at the ways the ADHD industry had made the particular neurodivergence we call ADHD even more disabling by hyperfocusing on certain deficits in ways that shame and traumatize people with ADHD, while at the same time ignoring the many ways our brains are uniquely creative and brilliant.

This video looks at the ways the industry's focus on executive functioning skills contributes to this disabling of the ADHD brain, while at the same time acknowledging that executive function deficits can themselves be disabling. However, I believe that to the extent executive functioning deficits are disabling, they can fairly easily be hacked or outsourced, and this video offers 6 (plus a bonus!) specific and practical ways people with ADHD can minimize the ways executive functioning deficits interfere with a healthy, happy, and productive life.