Strengths-based "Kinetic Cognitive Style" instead of ADHD

Excellent post over on Stimpunks Foundation on the term Kinetic Cognitive Style, an approach to describing ADHD in a strengths-based way rather than a deficit-oriented way. (Similar to monotropism to describe autism.)

Before you jump into the post... know that it's long and has a lot of links, which may be visually overwhelming! If you use tabs, you could open some of the links in other tabs to save for later. I'm also going to summarize the key headers below so you can get an overview first.

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The post covers:

1. Description of Kinetic Cognitive Style

2. Another community term, DREAD: Difficulty Regulating Emotion and Attention Divergence

3. Attention and Interest

4. Hyperfocus, Omnipotential, and Flow States

5. Performance, Mood, and Energy

6. All the Feels

7. School and Second-Hand Importance

8. Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

9. The ADHD Nervous System: An explanation of why we act the way we do.

• Why We Are So Sensitive

• Why We Don’t Function Well in a Linear world

• Why We Are Overwhelmed

• Why We Love a Crisis

• Why We Don’t Always Get Things Done

• Why Our Motors Always Run

• Why Organization Eludes Us

• Why We Forget Sometimes

• Why We Don’t See Ourselves Clearly

• Why We’re Time Challenged

1. Medication

2. Medication Access

3. Climbing Your Wall of Awful

4. I Spend, Protect My Energy, Currency

There are many other links throughout to articles, videos, and other resources. Which is great! But again, may be visually overwhelming, so going in with a plan is a great idea for this long meta-resource.

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