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When both partners have ADHD but cope differently

My partner and I are both ADHD and we keep having the same fight about household tasks where I hyperfocus and clean everything obsessively for hours while they can't get started at all, and we both end up feeling like failures in completely different ways.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people with the same neurotype are discovering their coping mechanisms are incompatible and creating mutual shame.

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“Where Are You with Neurodivergent identity — autism and ADHD?”

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