When a colleague asked me recently what my biggest personal awareness about ADHD had been, my immediate answer was regulation. But I realised I wanted to go deeper to explain what that word actually means, and why understanding it has become so important to me. We often talk about ADHD in terms of “concentration”, “organisation” and “forgetfulness”. However, there is also the experience of what happens within us as we try to manage everyday life: how we respond to pressure, h

This ADHD Awareness Month, I would like to talk about reasonable adjustments, not simply what organisations should be doing, but what we can do to understand and communicate our own needs. The Equality Act 2010 places a legal duty on organisations in certain circumstances to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people. For services and public functions, that duty is anticipatory: organisations should be thinking about barriers before a disabled person even comes through t