Having an ADHD brain can feel like your thoughts and mental to do lists are tangled balls of yarn.  Some of the thoughts/tasks are from the same ball of yarn, connected in some way, but tangled up in knots and it feels hard to pull them apart.  Sometimes there’s other strings of yarn mixed in there, but it feels like it’s all jumbled up together and really hard to unravel. 

One strategy that can be helpful when feeling this way is to do a “brain dump”.  What’s a brain dump you ask?  Think of it as a mental decluttering process where you take all the thoughts, tasks, and ideas swirling around in your head and transfer them onto paper or a digital device. It's a way to take all of those tangled strings of yarn and roll them back up neatly.

Conversations to have before your student goes off to college. Review a list of suggested conversations parents can have with their students. Written by ADHD Coach & Educator, Bobbi-Jo Molokken.