Sorry, I Missed This: The Everything Guide to ADHD and Relationships with Cate Osborn

Laura Mears-Reynolds, founder of ADHDAF and an award-winning community organizer, joins Cate to talk about online communication, building connection, and staying in touch when you have ADHD. They dig into rejection sensitive dysphoria and miscommunication, object permanence with people, time blindness in relationships — and why online community can be genuinely life-saving. Plus: the great voice memo debate, and why your calendar reminder system for friends is not sociopathic.

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ADHDAF

Feeling unsafe with ADHD (Laura Mears-Reynolds’ story) | ADHD Aha!

Building ADHD community | Sorry, I Missed This

For a transcript and more resources, visit Sorry, I Missed This on Understood.org. You can also email us at [email protected].

Exciting news! Cate’s new book, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults, is out now. Packed with practical strategies and insights, it’s a must-read for adults with ADHD. Check it out!
Understood.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people with learning and thinking differences, like ADHD and dyslexia. If you want to help us continue this work, donate at understood.org/give

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Content warning: This episode discusses self-harm. 

What does it actually take to finish a book with ADHD? 

Cate sits down with Erik Gude, her co-author of The ADHD Field Guide for Adults, to unpack five years of starts, stops, and persistence. They get into taking advantage of accessibility options and overcoming the shame of looming, unfinished projects to get this one done. 

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Listen: Infinite Quest (Cate and Erik’s podcast)

Listen: ADHD and procrastination

For a transcript and more resources, visit Sorry, I Missed This on Understood.org. You can also email us at [email protected].

Exciting news! Cate’s new book, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults, is out now. Packed with practical strategies and insights, it’s a must-read for adults with ADHD. Check it out!
Understood.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people with learning and thinking differences, like ADHD and dyslexia. If you want to help us continue this work, donate at understood.org/give

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As we know, Reddit is full of messy love stories, and we have thoughts. 

From gaslighting and age gaps to the weird magic of “new relationship energy,” we read posts that make us laugh, cringe, and wonder — can memory be used as a weapon in a relationship?

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Listen: ADHD and dating

Listen: Is it love or is it dopamine?

For a transcript and more resources, visit Sorry, I Missed This on Understood.org. You can also email us at [email protected].

Exciting news! Cate’s new book, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults, is out now. Packed with practical strategies and insights, it’s a must-read for adults with ADHD. Check it out!
Understood.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people with learning and thinking differences, like ADHD and dyslexia. If you want to help us continue this work, donate at understood.org/give

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Division of labor between partners isn’t easy for anyone. Add ADHD and suddenly dishes come with shame. Trash becomes a crisis. And rest starts to feel sketchy. 

Cate sits down with KC Davis to unpack the messy, deeply human reality of sharing work at home. They talk about resentment, perfectionism, time blindness, trust, and why keeping score almost never fixes anything.

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Listen: Managing expectations in relationships

Read: How to Keep House While Drowning (KC’s book)

For a transcript and more resources, visit Sorry, I Missed This on Understood.org. You can also email us at [email protected].

Exciting news! Cate’s new book, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults, is out now. Packed with practical strategies and insights, it’s a must-read for adults with ADHD. Check it out!
Understood.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people with learning and thinking differences, like ADHD and dyslexia. If you want to help us continue this work, donate at understood.org/give

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Have you ever stayed up all night replaying a meeting in your head? Or obsessed over an email? Or questioned every instinct you have? If making decisions feels like a full-time job, this one’s for you!

We’re talking with Dr. Mark Schrime, a surgeon with a PhD in the science of decision-making. Hear about the exhausting cycle of analysis paralysis, second-guessing, and decision fatigue that’s a reality for many people with ADHD. 

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Listen: Analysis paralysis

Read: ADHD and analysis paralysis

For a transcript and more resources, visit Sorry, I Missed This on Understood.org. You can also email us at [email protected].

Exciting news! Cate’s new book, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults, is out now. Packed with practical strategies and insights, it’s a must-read for adults with ADHD. Check it out!
Understood.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people with learning and thinking differences, like ADHD and dyslexia. If you want to help us continue this work, donate at understood.org/give

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