Cherry ADHD

Cherry ADHD I am a mum with ADHD and help raise awareness of how ADHD can impact adults and provide strategies. [email protected] for collaboration requests.

21/12/2025

Can you relate? Also Why is it ESPECIALLY that on those nights I never actually in fact go to bed early?? Why do I do that to myself?

The ADHD urge to have 4 drinks… I’ve only ever seen these posts with 3 drinks but am I the only one who from time to tim...
21/12/2025

The ADHD urge to have 4 drinks…
I’ve only ever seen these posts with 3 drinks but am I the only one who from time to times likes to quadruple parks herself? I usually have 3 drinks but sometimes you’ll see me with 4 as well lol
And yes I know most of these drinks are empty because weirdly when I’ve have several at once I am much more likely to finish them.

There’s a comment I see constantly whenever ADHD is mentioned, and it’s based on several false assumptions that need cor...
21/12/2025

There’s a comment I see constantly whenever ADHD is mentioned, and it’s based on several false assumptions that need correcting.

Assumption 1:
“Everyone forgets things, so it can’t be ADHD.”

Correct:
Everyone forgets things sometimes.
ADHD is diagnosed based on chronic, persistent executive dysfunction, not isolated behaviours. Frequency, severity, duration and impact are the diagnostic criteria — not whether a behaviour exists at all.

By that logic, everyone gets sad sometimes, so depression wouldn’t exist.

Assumption 2:
“If lots of people relate, it must just be normal behaviour.”

Correct:
Relatability does not negate a diagnosis.
It simply means the building blocks of the experience are human — while the intensity and impairment are not.

Most people experience thirst.
That doesn’t mean diabetes isn’t real.

Assumption 3:
“Talking about ADHD is making people excuse responsibility.”

Correct:
ADHD does not remove responsibility — it changes what support is required to meet it.
People with ADHD are consistently shown to exert more effort, not less, to achieve the same outcomes.

Explaining a mechanism is not the same as avoiding accountability.

Assumption 4:
“If it were real, everyone who forgets things would have it.”

Correct:
ADHD is a neurodevelopmental condition diagnosed only when difficulties:
• are present across multiple settings
• begin in childhood
• persist over time
• significantly impair daily functioning

This is basic diagnostic criteria, not opinion.

Assumption 5:
“ADHD content makes everyone think they have it.”

Correct:
Education does not diagnose.
But lack of education absolutely delays diagnosis — especially in adults and women, who were historically missed because ADHD was narrowly defined for decades.

Saying “everyone does that” doesn’t make ADHD disappear.
It just reveals a misunderstanding of how clinical conditions work.

You don’t need to agree with ADHD content.
But dismissing a neurodevelopmental condition because it doesn’t match your experience isn’t scepticism — it’s misinformation

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

21/12/2025

What did I miss? 😅🙈

Anyone else? How are you getting on this Christmas period? Are you feeling all over the place or happy regulated and prepared or a mix of all? I feel a mix!

I’m so incredibly happy to know some of these families have started to receive presents from magical FB elves but please...
21/12/2025

I’m so incredibly happy to know some of these families have started to receive presents from magical FB elves but please have a look and see if you are able to help with some last minute miracles - thank you!!! Forever grateful for all the kindness and care this community has been showing and continues to show for one another. Thank you for helping me trying to help them 🧡🙏 ⬇️

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1yrWx1jThgVnIbZulP3jya1Mbh4zI-jHLDXJvofxdK6k/htmlview =0

1) I’m German and didn’t learn English until I was 132) I Lived in Switzerland for 8 years (5-13) and was diagnosed with...
21/12/2025

1) I’m German and didn’t learn English until I was 13
2) I Lived in Switzerland for 8 years (5-13) and was diagnosed with ADHD at 6 (of 7) years old and was medicated briefly until my parents found a ‘source’ that claimed adhd was a trend made up to benefit the pharmaceutical industry. I didn’t learn about my diagnosis until I was 22 studying to become a speech and language therapist
3) I have been living in the uk since 2016 after moving countries and dropping out of the first degree I started to study SLT and be with my partner (now fiance and father of child) who I had been with in a long distance relationship for 6 months
4) we have 2 cats and a dog
5) my partner is a mental health nurse and runs his own care company
6) I was officially diagnosed with adhd in adulthood earlier this year - yes in the uk and many other countries- you need to be reassessed an diagnosed once you’re an adult - even if you’d had a diagnosis as a child before.

What else would you like to know? Where are you from? What’s your story?

Has anyone tried these yet? Sounds good but also I’d probably forget to charge it and then never use it again?
21/12/2025

Has anyone tried these yet? Sounds good but also I’d probably forget to charge it and then never use it again?

Went snorkelling today with my fiance and our 6 year old daughter. What an incredible day. Feeling very very grateful to...
21/12/2025

Went snorkelling today with my fiance and our 6 year old daughter. What an incredible day. Feeling very very grateful to be able to have this experience just before Christmas.

21/12/2025

Everyone accepts adhd until…
What did I miss?

I’m so guilty of this 😅😭 we often have the best intentions and then struggle following through. I’d often even start but...
21/12/2025

I’m so guilty of this 😅😭 we often have the best intentions and then struggle following through. I’d often even start but then never fully finish
Wbu?

This is me, on holiday working until past midnight in bed while everyone else is sleeping. And I CHOSE to do that. I hav...
21/12/2025

This is me, on holiday working until past midnight in bed while everyone else is sleeping. And I CHOSE to do that. I have deadlines coming up an I want to be able to continue doing what I love doing. In order to, I cannot ever truly take a day off. That’s the reality. I can take time off but not an entire day off. I can preplan and make things easier for myself but I can’t completely stop. That’s the decision I made and I’d make it over and over again.

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20/12/2025

I can’t be the only one right… RIGHT?! Maybe next time I should plan to relax and rest when I’ve got important stuff to do lol
Although im pretty sure I’ve tried that already and it resulted in me resting while feeling guilty about not doing the stuff that I needed to do which therefore ended up not being restful at all lol
And yes this is actual footage of me on my planned rest day having decluttered the entire downstairs bit of our house…

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