HeyJaredAuthentically ADHD with Carmen
Hi! I'm Carmen, a late-diagnosed ADHDer, ADHD life coach, and early childhood special education teacher who wants to spread awareness, relate to other ADHDers, and have fun while talking and learning about the difficulties, awesomeness, and new research behind the…
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“I’ll Do It When I Have More Energy” and Other AuDHD Fairy Tales (opens the original)
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Have you ever promised yourself, “I’ll do it when I have more energy”—only to discover that Future You is just as exhausted and now has an even longer to-do list? In this episode of Authentically ADHD , Carmen explores the reality of inconsistent AuDHD capacity and why being able to do something one day does not guarantee access to the same abilities the next. We unpack how ADHD executive-function differences, reward processing, autistic inertia, sensory demands, transitions, interoception, stre
ADHD, Autism, or Both? The Identity Plot Twist Nobody Explained to Us (opens the original)
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ADHD and autism can share features - executive-function struggles, intense focus, sensory differences, social friction, emotional dysregulation - without being interchangeable. This episode explores how the same outward behavior can have different internal causes, why AuDHD often feels like living with competing access needs, and how to respond with curiosity instead of shame. This episode is educational and is not medical advice or a diagnostic assessment. Screening tools can start a conversati
Your Brain Didn’t Forget They Exist—It Lost the Retrieval Cue (opens the original)
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Have you ever forgotten to text someone you deeply love, missed an appointment that genuinely mattered, or lost the important object you deliberately placed somewhere “safe”? It is often described online as an ADHD or AuDHD “object permanence” problem—but that is not quite what is happening. In this episode of Authentically ADHD with Carmen , Carmen breaks down the real neuroscience behind why AuDHD brains lose track of people, plans, tasks, and everyday objects. She explores context-dependent r
My Brain Has Plenty of Goals—It Just Misplaced the “Go” Button (opens the original)
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Why can an AuDHD brain write an entire podcast episode, reorganize a whole room, or research a random topic for three hours—but still feel physically unable to answer one email or move the laundry? In this episode of Authentically ADHD , Carmen breaks down the neuroscience of dopamine, reward anticipation, effort, executive function, and motivation variability in ADHD and AuDHD. We explore why dopamine is not simply the brain’s “happy chemical,” why delayed rewards often fail to create enough mo
The First Bell Is a Nervous-System Event (opens the original)
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Back-to-school season is often presented as an exciting fresh start—but for neurodivergent children, AuDHD families, parents, and educators, the first bell can feel more like a full-body nervous-system event. In this episode of Authentically ADHD , Carmen explores how the transition back to school can affect autistic and ADHD children through sensory overload, executive dysfunction, anxiety, disrupted sleep, social demands, changing routines, and emotional dysregulation. A child may be excited a
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