Kids + Parents
Help the brain before blaming the behaviour.
School, homework, mornings, bedtime, big feelings, friendships, gaming, transitions — and the parent-child conflict that grows out of all of it.
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ADHDier.
Your brain isn't badly designed.
Your life might be.
Therapist-informed psychology, practical tools + personalised support for living with ADHD.
For kids, teens, adults + the people who live with them.
How is it already 4:17?Starting ≠ knowingDon't just try harder — make it easier to doPut it where you can see itI'll remember that. [Narrator: they did not.]ADHD is more than attentionOpen it, don't finish itDon't just try harder — make it easier to doPut it where you can see itI'll remember that. [Narrator: they did not.]ADHD is more than attentionOpen it, don't finish it
ADHD is more than attention.
It shows up everywhere.
Starting something.
Stopping something.
Remembering why you walked into the room.
Feeling everything at full volume.
Knowing exactly what you need to do and somehow still not doing it.
Losing track of time.
Finding a system that works brilliantly for three days.
Hyperfocusing on the thing nobody asked you to do.
ADHD doesn't stay inside a diagnostic checklist. It comes with you into school, work, relationships, parenting, sleep, money, technology + ordinary Tuesday mornings.
ADHDier is built for that part.
The six pillars
Six places ADHD actually lands.
Every article, tool, question and plan on ADHDier is organised around these six. They're not symptom clusters — they're the parts of life where the friction shows up.
All six pillars
01
Attention
Where your mind goes.
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Starting + Doing
Knowing isn't always doing.
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03
Time + Memory
The invisible stuff is harder to hold onto.
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04
Feelings
Sometimes everything arrives at full volume.
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05
Life Systems
Make the environment do some of the work.
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Connection + Self
ADHD happens between people, too.
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Teens
Your brain. Your life. Your way through.
Deadlines, motivation, phones, sleep, friends, rejection, identity, independence. Written for you, not about you.
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Adults
ADHD didn't disappear when you grew up.
Work, home, money, life admin, relationships, parenting, burnout, late diagnosis and the ordinary Tuesday that somehow got away.
Explore AdultsThe philosophy
Don't just try harder.
Make it easier to do.
Most useful ADHD support isn't about effort. It's about reducing friction, externalising memory, changing environments, making tasks visible, building better cues, removing unnecessary steps and protecting sleep. The goal isn't to turn an ADHD brain into a neurotypical one. It's to make life work better for the brain you have.
The ADHDier ecosystem
You + your ADHD brain, in the middle of it.
Seven parts that talk to each other. What you answer in one place changes what you're shown in the others — and everything recommended is something that actually exists here.
- 01 UnderstandADHDier AssessmentA structured look at how attention, starting, time, feelings, systems and connection are actually working for you. Not a diagnosis — a map.
- 02 Check inWhat's hard right now?Two minutes on today. You get somewhere useful to start rather than a reading list.
- 03 Get a planPersonalised ADHDier PlanBuilt from your answers: what's going on, why it makes sense, and the smallest next move.
- 04 Try somethingTools + ExperimentsSmall, specific, low-friction. Designed to be abandoned without guilt if they don't help.
- 05 Understand moreJournal + ResearchLong-form writing that starts with life, then explains the psychology. Plus research without the jargon.
- 06 Go deeperCoursesSubstantial, beautifully made learning for when a single article isn't enough.
- 07 Keep what worksMy ADHDierYour external brain: saved tools, boards, plans and a Come back to this shelf that actually resurfaces.
From the Journal
Start with life. Then the psychology.
task initiation — 9 min read
Why can I do something for six hours but not start a five-minute task?
The size of a task and the difficulty of starting it are almost unrelated. Here's what's actually happening in the gap.
time perception — 8 min read
Time blindness: how it can be 4:17 already
For a lot of ADHD brains, time isn't a background hum you can feel passing. It's information you have to actively go and check.
sensitivity to criticism — 10 min read
When criticism lands like a physical blow
Rejection sensitivity is widely discussed in ADHD communities and much less settled in the research. Here's what we can and can't say.
One thing to try
Small enough to actually happen.
Tiny interventions, easy to abandon if they don't help. No moralising, no streaks.
The whole library2 min
Open it, don't finish it
Open the document, the email, the book. Read the first line. You are explicitly allowed to close it again.
1 min
Put it where you trip over it
Place the thing you must not forget physically in your path — floor, doorway, on top of your shoes.
5 min
Move the start line
Ask what has to happen before the task can begin. Do only that today.
3 min
Make the first step stupidly small
Shrink it until it sounds ridiculous. One sentence. One drawer. One question.