Have you ever had that odd sensation where something you knew perfectly well yesterday has vanished into thin air today? It’s as if your brain has decided to play a game of hide and seek, but forgotten to tell you the rules. Welcome to the world of ‘wisdom fade’-something that can feel like a particularly cruel trick if you have ADHD.

Before I started coaching the biggest challenge in my mind was not being able to understand why everything seemed so simple for everyone else. It seemed quite hard for me.

Before coaching with Tony I didn't fully understand the different elements of ADHD and how much it was impacting my life … Tony’s coaching sessions feel really relaxed. That helped me to feel comfortable and safe.

Let's get straight to it - the notion that ADHD presents fundamentally differently between genders is flawed. While there are some variations in how symptoms manifest, polarising the disorder around gender oversimplifies its complexity and does more harm than good.

Living with ADHD can be a rollercoaster that leads to frustration and self-doubt. Let's look at why self-compassion is so crucial for adults with ADHD.

One of the most important aspects of managing ADHD is developing greater self-awareness about where we may hit challenges and what we need to do to support ourselves.

This can be a substantial ADHD challenge in itself since it requires - foresight, planning, organisation and probably most importantly of all and often overlooked - permission from ourselves to make our own lives easier.

We hate structure but we need it to function as it has a close relationship with the concept of control. We need to feel we have control.

We know that those with ADHD tend to have a negative bias when it comes to the concept of success. We can be very poor at recognising, embracing, celebrating and owning our own successes, but we can be very good at recognising and owning our failures.

I’ve been thinking of putting Teddy on the wall as a piece of art in a display case in my new place. Sometimes, we have the idea first without really understanding where the idea has come from or why and it’s taken a while to understand some of the things that Teddy represents for me.

In October 2017 the BBC broadcast a Horizon programme presented by the comedian Rory Bremner about how he discovered that he has ADHD. At the end of the programme my wife turned to me. “That sounds a lot like you” she said. “I was thinking the same thing” I said.

‘Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder’ is very commonly misunderstood. The first misunderstanding is that the words appear to be descriptive. The second problem are the words themselves. The word deficit implies ‘less than’ and the word disorder implies ‘malfunction’. The ADHD brain isn’t broken, it is wired a little differently and it’s unique.