HeyJaredMarta Smith - ADHD Untangled
Understanding ADHD through executive function, nervous systems, and everyday life.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 7
- Latest publication
- Sep 14, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 26, 2026
Latest issues
I think I’ve been designing my life for the wrong person (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I am exceptionally good at designing a life for a woman who apparently has no bad days.She sleeps well, gets up when her alarm goes off, drinks water, exercises, eats something containing an impressive amount of protein and arrives at work with both the things she needs and a reasonable understanding of where she put them. She has planned dinner, knows what is happening tomorrow and responds to messages when she reads them rather than mentally replying and discovering three weeks later that appa
I can see the mistake coming. Should I let them make it? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Subscribe now“It took a lot for me to come and sit down here and tell you that you were right. I don’t need you to tell me this again.”Well. That stopped me.My sixteen-year-old and I had disagreed about something earlier that evening. I had questioned a choice he had made, he had defended it, and eventually we had left the conversation there. I wasn’t entirely convinced he understood what I was trying to say, but he was clearly done talking about it and, in a small triumph of re
Before you tell yourself to try harder, ask this (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Subscribe nowThe gap between knowing and doing contains more information than I realised.I know that going to bed earlier would make tomorrow easier.I know that if I put something immediately into my calendar, there is a significantly greater chance that Future Marta will remember it exists.I know that preparing food ahead of time makes the rest of my week calmer.I know that I feel better after I exercise.I know that opening the document is usually the hardest part.
Maybe we are preparing ADHD kids for school backwards... (opens the original)
Read excerpt
My oldest is about to start Grade 11 and the IB Diploma, and there is currently a copy of A Gentleman in Moscow being very successfully ignored in our house.This would be less interesting if he didn’t read, but he does. A lot.Subscribe nowThis summer he has read Sapiens, Prisoners of Geography, The Righteous Mind and The Boys in the Boat. He has now picked up Homo Deus voluntarily, which is perhaps not what most people imagine when they think
I think I’ve outgrown something I built for myself (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Subscribe nowLast year, I built something that made sense to me.ADHD Untangled gave me somewhere to put everything I was learning about ADHD. As a parent, as an educator, as a coach and as an adult who came to understand her own brain much later than she probably would have liked.I wrote about executive function and nervous systems. I wrote about parenting and emotional regulation. I wrote about the invisible work of living with ADHD.It made sense and it still makes sense.And yet, for a w
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.