Family Cooking Together June is Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month — a time when millions of people turn their attention to the aging brain, its vulnerabilities, and its remarkable resilience. At The Society for ADHD, we want to use this moment to address a question that is on the minds of many in our community, particularly those who received a late diagnosis or who are watching a parent age: What happens to ADHD as we get older? And what is the relationship, if any, between ADHD and...

Beach School is out. The schedule has evaporated. The alarms have been silenced. For families navigating ADHD, summer can be a beautiful, chaotic, wonderful, overwhelming time — sometimes all in the same afternoon. Here is the truth: the structure of the school year, as imperfect as it is, provides scaffolding that many ADHD brains genuinely rely on. When that scaffolding disappears in June, executive function challenges can become more visible, emotions can run higher, and parents can find...

Fire June is PTSD Awareness Month, and it brings with it an opportunity to address one of the most clinically complex — and most frequently misunderstood — intersections in neurodivergent care: the relationship between ADHD and trauma. Because the two do not simply coexist. They interact, they mask each other, and they can be genuinely difficult to distinguish — even for experienced clinicians. For the individuals living at this intersection, the confusion itself can be part of the suffering....