Gabor Maté’s “Scattered Minds”: ADHD & TCKs

I devoured this book. Maté writes about the human mind in relational, rather than mechanistic, terms. He writes about ADD and ADHD and the term ‘scattered’ that he uses to describe this cohort seems to me very apt. It also happens to be the term used most...

Third Culture Kids and AD(H)D

Before I sat down to write about Third Culture Kids and ADHD, I made a herbal tea (some concoction I had made for me ages ago to help regulate my energy levels – it’s probably out of date now) and jumped up and down in the kitchen for a few minutes, eating...

Performing Identity & the props we use

How do you feel about the idea of ‘performing identity’? For many people, performance is associated with ‘faking it’, ‘inauthenticity’ or even, ‘drama’. It can feel jarring to consider identity as performance. And yet...