The ADHD Partner Survey is the largest, most comprehensive survey on Adult ADHD. But it’s not not solely relationship issues.
In 64 questions, I asked 164 partners of adults with ADHD about everything from employment to experiences with treatment to health conditions. Their own and their ADHD partners.
The results informed my first book and are excerpted in the first-ever chapter on couple therapy I wrote for Russell Barkley, PhD’s clinical guide.
Why did I survey the partners and not the adults themselves? Great question! I explain that in the first post, along with the reasons for conducting the survey: About the ADHD Partner Survey.
Seeking support as the partner or other loved one of an adult with ADHD (diagnosed or not yet), check out my long-running group, ADHD Partner
The ADHD Partner Survey queried respondents on a range of topics, including:
Adult ADHD, when left unrecognized and poorly managed, can affect parenting in some predictable ways. Most of these ways involve the ability to organize (time, stuff, goals) and remember (household rules and routines), and follow
If you or your partner has ADHD, the signs would be obvious, yes? The signs of Adult ADHD would show themselves at the very beginning of the relationship, yes? Well…..no. Not exactly. It might be
Do you remember the traits that attracted you to your ADHD partner — and vice-versa? That was a question in my ADHD Partner Survey. In this post, I’ll share the findings from a few
“I wish I’d known earlier about Adult ADHD.” That came through loudly as the recurring theme of responses to the ADHD Partner Survey question: “What do you wish you’d known earlier about ADHD?” [Note: I
How did you learn your partner has ADHD? That was one of 64 questions in the ADHD Partner Survey. Put another way: What was your “lightbulb moment”? These findings from the ADHD Partner Survey detail
What does Adult ADHD look like? In fact, it can look different in each person who has it! Relying on stereotypes can throw us off track. That’s what we examine here in findings from the
In this post, we delve into the write-in responses to this ADHD Partner Survey question: As your relationship continued, did your ADHD partner’s positive traits continue—or continue to be attractive? Predictably, the answers run the gamut.
Perhaps that person you fell in love with, months or years ago, is still right there by your side. But maybe that person, while still physically present, has somehow—inexplicably, strangely, terrifyingly—disappeared! So much confusion clouds
To read the two-part story that accompanies this chart, click here to visit Gina’s Adult ADHD Relationships blog.
