You know that important thing you’ve been trying to remember all day? Good news: your brain remembered it. Bad news: you’re driving. Or showering. Or lying in bed. Or listening to your kid’s teacher talk and trying very hard not to pull out your phone.

In this episode of Control Alt Think: Conversations with Neurodivergent Minds, Amy Voros and Megan King talk about the very specific experience of remembering things at exactly the moment you can’t actually do anything about them. Because apparently working memory has a schedule, and it did not consult us.

Megan shares her literal version of “put a pin in it”—pressing her fingernail into her finger and refusing to let go until she can get back to the thought. Amy connects the experience to working memory, task switching, and what happens when our brains finally stop focusing long enough for all those other thoughts to wander back in.

Naturally, this leads to possible scaffolds: notebooks by the bed, digital reminders, morning routines, waterproof paper…and the discovery that children’s bathtub crayons may actually be an executive function tool in disguise. Sometimes there’s a system. Sometimes there’s just, “Ah, it’ll come to me.”

They also get into the dangerous little bargain of, “If it’s really important, I’ll remember it”—followed immediately by Megan’s brain essentially saying, “Challenge accepted.” Because nothing says reliable productivity system quite like remembering the tax thing while driving down the road.

There may not be a brilliant solution in this episode. Mostly, there’s working memory, weird physical reminders, strategic scaffolding, terrible timing, and two neurodivergent people realizing that yes, apparently we all remember The Thing when we are least capable of doing The Thing.

#ADHD #Neurodivergent #WorkingMemory #ExecutiveFunction #ADHDProductivity #ADHDTips

Ever made a decision that looked completely impulsive to everyone around you?

Excuse me. There was research. There were spreadsheets. There were scenarios. There may have been a three-hour internet rabbit hole that started with one innocent question. This was anything BUT impulsive.

In this episode of Control Alt Think: Conversations with Neurodivergent Minds, ADHD coach Amy Voros and Megan King, Parent Focus Coach, explore the neurodivergent need to know all the things before moving on—or, sometimes, just because the brain has decided that THIS is the thing we need to know everything about now.

They talk about research rabbit holes, analysis paralysis, collecting random information, planning for every possible outcome, special interests, and the strange experience of looking like you're "winging it" when you've actually already run 37 different scenarios in your head.

They also dig into what happens when this need for information is misunderstood. What looks like procrastination might actually be processing. What looks impulsive might have been quietly planned for months. And what looks like constantly changing your goals might actually be adjusting them as new information comes in.

And sometimes? You don't need the information for anything at all. Your brain just wants to know.

So if you've ever opened one tab to look something up and emerged hours later knowing an alarming amount about a topic you didn't care about yesterday… welcome. You're among friends.

#ADHD #Neurodivergent #AnalysisParalysis #ExecutiveFunction #Neurodiversity #ADHDBrain

Why is it that a task you've been avoiding for three days suddenly becomes completely doable the second another human being is involved? Apparently, other people might actually be useful.

In this episode of Control Alt Think: Conversations with Neurodivergent Minds, ADHD coach Amy Voros and Megan King, Parent Focus Coach, talk about collaboration—and why getting things done together can sometimes feel suspiciously like cheating.

From body doubling and external accountability to folding laundry, cooking, recording a podcast, and tackling projects together, Amy and Megan explore why another person's presence can make a task feel easier, more interesting, and occasionally even… fun. Rude, honestly.

But somewhere along the way, the productivity conversation takes a very on-brand rabbit hole into relationships. What if doing things together isn't just helping neurodivergent brains get things done? What if it's also one of the ways we connect? Amy and Megan unpack shared interests, task-focused communication, co-regulation, and why some of our strongest relationships might be built while we're busy doing something else.

So, is collaboration a productivity strategy? Body doubling? Relationship building? A clever way to trick your brain into folding the laundry?

Yes.

#ADHD #Neurodivergent #BodyDoubling #ExecutiveFunction #Neurodiversity #ADHDCoaching