Why Adults with ADHD Struggle with Friendships (Caroline Maguire)
You meet someone, become instant best friends, and a few months later they're gone. Then it happens again.
Most ADHD advice focuses on productivity, but Caroline Maguire believes we're missing something just as important: friendship. Caroline is a certified ADHD coach and the author of Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults.
In this conversation, Skye and Caroline explore why ADHD brains often rush into friendships, why traditional friendship advice falls flat, and how to build relationships that actually last without burning yourself out.
You'll walk away with a practical way to spot unhealthy friendship patterns before they cost you another connection.
What We Cover
- Why the impulsive friendship cycle happens
- Why traditional friendship advice doesn't work for ADHD adults
- The Ice Cream Scoop Method for balanced give-and-take
- How to spot one-sided friendships early
- Why interest-based activities make building friendships easier
- How to slow a friendship down without ending it
Connect With Caroline Maguire
About ADHD founders for ADHD founders.
Interesting in working together? You can click here to receive a free bottleneck audio session and learn more about what we do. https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/unstuckaudiosession
Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.
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You meet someone, become instant best friends, and a few months later they're gone. Then it happens again.
Most ADHD advice focuses on productivity, but Caroline Maguire believes we're missing something just as important: friendship. Caroline is a certified ADHD coach and the author of Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults.
In this conversation, Skye and Caroline explore why ADHD brains often rush into friendships, why traditional friendship advice falls flat, and how to build relationships that actually last without burning yourself out.
You'll walk away with a practical way to spot unhealthy friendship patterns before they cost you another connection.
What We Cover
- Why the impulsive friendship cycle happens
- Why traditional friendship advice doesn't work for ADHD adults
- The Ice Cream Scoop Method for balanced give-and-take
- How to spot one-sided friendships early
- Why interest-based activities make building friendships easier
- How to slow a friendship down without ending it
Connect With Caroline Maguire
About ADHD founders for ADHD founders.
Interesting in working together? You can click here to receive a free bottleneck audio session and learn more about what we do. https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/unstuckaudiosession
Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.
Subscribe to our Newsletter - https://unconventionalorganization.substack.com/
Follow us on Instagram - @unconventionalorganisation
Visit our website - https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/
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