Hello All,
Are there any witches with ADHD? If so, how do you do things differently? How do you organize your self, keep grounded and remember things?
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Hello @IrenaMoonshower! I suspect there are quite a few of us 
I have ADHD (or possible AuDHD) and was only diagnosed recently, in my 30’s. I’m not on any medication for it right now, and try to embrace the chaos in balance with using my practice for structure, ritualization and inner work if that makes sense. Some things that come to mind that are different for me, that might be for you ~
I struggle with practicing “regularly” so I practice when I feel like it. I think sometimes my practice waxes and wanes with my interest, or I find a hyperfixation with something like tarot or a particular deity that may come and go, I embrace that as okay and not a failing.
You may have many other interests or hyper fixations that can incorporate with your practice - music, art, rock collecting, topics you’ve researched deeply in the past.
If there are any things that really work for you in your daily life then definitely look for ways to carry that into your craft. Don’t make it a chore, but things like tracking + rewards, novelty, or challenges (like the ones here) are some strategies I’ve applied to my practice.
Grounding and meditation are huge for me and genuinely very helpful in practice and in every day life.
Meditation is a hard one because I struggle to sit still and empty my mind and just relax. if you’re similar to me in that, then you might try more active or sensory meditations and centering activities. Touch a tree, root your bare feet to the floor, carry a pocket rock fidget etc.
I love Thai Chi Qigong because it is a moving meditation. Things like counting knots on a string or beads on a rosary, focusing on a candle flame, singing bowls, nature bathing etc give them a try!
There is a method of meditation I learned from the book Trees of Power, where you go into something like a thicket or beside a pond etc. (a secluded or liminal natural space) sit down and focus your eyes on one spot ahead of you. Notice everything you can with all your senses without moving your gaze, but explore your peripheral vision as much as you can while looking straight ahead. Eventually your eyes will start to go out of focus but your field of vision will expand and you will become much more aware of movement, differences in patterns, sounds etc. This is a great way to connect with nature, expand your awareness …and trying to notice everything is much more friendly to my mind, than trying to think of nothing!
I hope some of that helps you. And as far as memory and find-lost-item spells there are many, but if you find ones that work I’d love to know! 
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Hi @IrenaMoonshower this is such a good topic to talk about! Thank you for posting!
I´m 52, turning 53 soon, and was undiagnosed for the vast part of my life. Actually I´ve got my ADHD diagnosis only last year. I´ve decided to try medication and it works very well for me.
That being said, obviously I had to work with it and around it for my whole life.
Regarding my witchcraft practice I followed my natural curiosity and hyperfixations and I think, the fact that witchcraft is such a wide field with so my paths kept me going, because there was always something new to explore. So, that´s kind of fun!
Also, I´ve learned about chaos magick and found that this type of witchcraft is a very good place for me to be. As much as I love moon phases or the correspondences of weekdays, when I feel driven for spellwork, I will do it and not wait for the “perfect” moonphase.
Same, same! My mind is just pretty loud all the time. I´m finding guided meditations helpful and witchy coloring pages (with meditation music in my headphones), I like doing art in general for grounding and working in my Book of Shadows can be very meditative for me.
Also Yoga and gentle movement to music is something I will do daily.
I also struggle to do things on a daily basis, but I´m trying my best! I just gotta pay attention, because I can do a daily routine for three months, then miss one day and never get back to it. lol
When I´m missing out on my yoga routine in the morning, I´ll do it in the evening before going to bed.
Life with ADHD can be challenging but also fun! And we truly are the unicorns of humankind. 
Allow yourself to find your own unique ways of practicing, trust your intuition always (because, let´s be honest, it´s ON POINT, right?) and don´t think you´d have to do things like anybody else.
If you don´t know the Book “Rebel Witch” by Kelly-Ann Maddox, I would recommend it! If´s a fun read and shows you ways to work with your ADHD as a witch. 
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I’m not totally sure if I have ADD or not. I know I’m not hyperactive, but I follow different thought streams even while trying to pray. So this is an interesting topic for me!
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I myself is not but my youngest daughter is and she asks me all the time to help her put her binder together to keep it organized and I try to help her learn one different type of magic every couple of days or even once a week so I don’t overwhelm her.
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Brilliant. I bet she enjoys your time together. You’re definitely creating memories to last a lifetime! 
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Its now to where they are actually casting their own spells and have their own alters
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ADD or Adhd presents differently in girls and women as it does in boys and men. This is the main reason, why girls went undiagnosed and untreated for so many years, after boys were already diagnosed.
The hyperactivity, that presents in boys in a physical way, presents in girls and women in an internalised way. Also, because we are socialised differently.
So, women with adhd can experience a constantly loud brain (“inner narrator”, texts, music playing, visuals all at once), difficulties in spatial orientation recognition (which results in bruises, because we´re hitting against something everyday) lack of object permanence (if something is out of sight, it literally ceases to exist) and a really hard time to focus on beginning and ending a task without interruptions (I´m calling them “side quests”).
If you´d want more informations, I´m sure I could find some websites for you! Just say a word! 
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I am so interested because I tend to walk into walls if I’m not paying attention, I get distracted easily, and my brain will not STFU!! And while things out of sight ceasing to exist don’t really happen to me, I tend to put things away in a safe place and lose them forever and ever. Thank you so much for this!
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Here is a website specifically for girls and women with ADHD/ADD
This should provide you with helpful, reliable information.
And then I´ve found this online test - as I understand it, it is for free, but please check for yourself!
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That sounds so much like me 
poor proprioperception - walking into door frames daily, and attention to memory - each item has to be properly visible in its “home” or risks vanishing forever. Combined with executive dysfunction (tied in with a feeling of heavy inertia during task initiation or dread at starting tasks, and a lot of other things) and some sensory issues that I never knew I was dealing with until a particular working environment pushed me over the edge of coping. Another thing is that I can rarely form habits but I do form routines well, if that makes sense. I fully empathize with everything you said!
I definitely encourage you and anyone but especially women or AFAB people who think these symptoms sound familiar look into it more and perhaps discuss it with a doctor. My primary care wasn’t very knowledgeable, so I eventually looked for a therapist with experience in diagnosing and treating people with neurodivergent brains. That’s a word that will come up, Neurodivergent, to describe how we tend to think and process things in a different way than the typical brain does. Or to say, we are the unicorns. But there is becoming quite a herd of us these days!
My own family history is full of men who got diagnosed as young boys in primary school, and women who never did but showed clear signs in the older generations, to women getting diagnosed in our 20s 30s 40s and 50s now.
Treatment has been so helpful, I do still struggle with things but have context and understanding and can use my therapist as a sounding board for what coping strategies serve me and which aren’t currently working. Medication was amazing, though I’m off due to interactions with other meds at the moment. But it is night and day now comparing to wondering for years “why is my brain like this??”
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Thank you so much for the list! I’m gonna try to do the test today. But yeah, this is interesting to me. Thank you!
I’m doing a sleep study for my shrink here in a bit, and I won’t see her again till June. But I’ll mention it to her and to my PCP. I have a good one, even though she’s an NP. If she can’t figure it out, she knows who to send you to.
I would think something as wonderful as a bunch of unicorns would be called something more fanciful than a mere HERD. A flight, maybe? Or a fancy? Yes, a fancy of unicorns!
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They have been called a “blessing” of unicorns.
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Yes, because diagnosis and treatment are finally available! Yay!
I agree! I was called lazy, awkward and stupid so many times in my childhood and youth, it broke my heart that I just could not be like the others. I´ve tried so hard and failed over and over again.
Recently I´ve stumbled upon a post that said: “All your life you´ve tried to be a horse, but no matter how hard you´ve horsed it never worked out. Because you are a goddamn Unicorn.”
This sounds lovley! A “fancy of unicorns” sounds like sparkling rainbow glitter and little bells.
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That sounds good! Better than a herd.
A fancy is for the My Little Pony Unicorns!
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PERFECT PICTURE! You win a gold star and a cookie! 
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Thank you for this. Im 37 and diagnosed with adhd. Mediation is hard, im trying with daily acts with intention. Im going to try some of the suggestions
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I´ve found a quite good article about adhd and witchcraft practice.
As I was reading it, I realized that I´ve managed once again to forget putting out my crystals under the full moon and also didn´t manage to do even the tiniest full moon ritual. 
Ah, well…
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Thanks for the link! That does look interesting. I hardly ever put out my crystals, to tell the truth. I know that the moon can charge them without being seen from my window, but it doesn’t feel the same. You know? So I use smoke and a selenite bowl.
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