Alex Partridge

Sounds brilliant.

And what was the state of the house like when you got back?

Kelly is your husband and is he neurotypical?

His own ying to his own yang.

And that's what we're going to talk about today.

We're going to talk about five cleaning hacks that don't work for neurodivergent brains, but then also the really helpful part is like, what does work?

Yeah, I feel like a lot of the neurotypical advice assumes that you have some kind of manager going on in your head and not just five raccoons with a whiteboard.

Yeah, gosh.

I mean, if shame was a motivator, I think we'd all have spotless houses, right?

Because everyone's got different cleaning styles, right?

I suppose.

I think mine's like, I'll just have a random burst of energy at an unpredictable time and probably get a little bit done in some areas, but then I'll just lie down for like four or five hours and that'll be my day done.

done can you almost when you're doing it can you almost feel yourself waning because I can kind of feel like you're like oh god the batteries are going to run out soon I'm scared of getting halfway through a task I've made more mess than when I started then the dopamine runs out and I'm looking at a wardrobe that is now in a worse state than when I started and this is it

Absolutely.

Right, Hester, let's get into it.

Okay.

We're going to go reverse chronological order.

So we're going to start with number five.

Yes.

A strategy, a cleaning strategy that doesn't work for ADHD.