Married with ADHD

Victoria Strake
8 min readDec 3, 2018
No amount of sticky notes can save us from ourselves. Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash

My wife and I are both officially diagnosed with galloping cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD. This is how we live together.

Overall, there are upsides and downsides to both having the same disorder. Yeah, you heard me, I called it a disorder because that is what it is. I know we’re supposed to pretend that we’re just ‘differently abled’ but what my wife and I have is not some mild case of distractibility, it…

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Victoria Strake

Essayist, former scientist, trans woman. Striving for actionable methods of peaceful revolution — relationships, community, mutual aid, subsistence, science.