Great series Abbey! I also have been diagnosed with ADHD recently and while on therapy one thing that was clear was that I'm always putting way too much pressure on myself to do things I want to do, while not celebrating what I do accomplish. So your point about celebrating things we've done hit right home.
To help me with this I've built TinyWins so that I have somewhere to input anything I want to celebrate whenever I do that thing. It's a fairly simple app but I've found it to really help me give my brain some positive feedback like you said.
I'm planning on building more apps like that in my free time to help our neurodivergent brains with more positivity. I feel like the vast majority of the apps, specially productivity apps, were built for neurotypical brains and they're often too overwhelming at least for me personally. Whenever I build something I feel that is helping me, I'll be putting it out there in hopes it might also help some of our fellow neurodivergent folks with the same struggles.
Looking forward to reading more from you Abbey, keep it up.
Great series Abbey! I also have been diagnosed with ADHD recently and while on therapy one thing that was clear was that I'm always putting way too much pressure on myself to do things I want to do, while not celebrating what I do accomplish. So your point about celebrating things we've done hit right home.
To help me with this I've built TinyWins so that I have somewhere to input anything I want to celebrate whenever I do that thing. It's a fairly simple app but I've found it to really help me give my brain some positive feedback like you said.
I'm planning on building more apps like that in my free time to help our neurodivergent brains with more positivity. I feel like the vast majority of the apps, specially productivity apps, were built for neurotypical brains and they're often too overwhelming at least for me personally. Whenever I build something I feel that is helping me, I'll be putting it out there in hopes it might also help some of our fellow neurodivergent folks with the same struggles.
Looking forward to reading more from you Abbey, keep it up.
I'm very similar and this app so great! Looking forward to seeing what else you build!