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When ADHD partners have conflicting organizational needs

My partner and I are both ADHD and we've been trying to figure out household systems for three years but what works for their brain completely overwhelms mine and what I need feels like chaos to them. We're starting to wonder if we're just fundamentally incompatible when it comes to creating a life together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two neurodivergent people are discovering that their individual coping mechanisms may be mutually exclusive, threatening their ability to build shared systems.

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