`Long post warning — but I think some of you will relate to every word of this.
I got my ADHD diagnosis later in life. And like a lot of women who get diagnosed late, the first thing I felt wasn't relief. It was grief.
Grief for every planner I'd abandoned by day three. Every morning I'd started with good intentions and ended in shame. Every system I'd tried and failed.
And then I realised — the planners weren't built for me. They were built for neurotypical brains and handed to the rest of us as if we just needed to try harder.
So I built one that actually gets it.
It has a Morning Brain Dump (because you can't plan from a cluttered brain), a Time Map with buffer zones built around time blindness, a Dopamine Task Menu where you sort tasks by brain energy instead of willpower, a Focus Sprints page with flexible timers, and — the page I'm most proud of — an RSD Check-In.
An actual dedicated page for Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. Because nobody else has built that and we deserve it.
I've just listed it on Etsy if anyone wants to take a look. Not trying to be salesy — genuinely just sharing something I made because I needed it and couldn't find it anywhere.
https://glitchinggracefully.etsy.com
And if you don't want to buy anything, that's completely fine too.
I'd just love to know — what's the one thing every planner you've tried has got wrong for your ADHD brain?