Alex Partridge

Are there any other phobias?

Are you a leg in or a leg out of the duvet when you sleep?

Leg out.

Leg out, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm a leg out as well.

And the tossing of the pillow, turning it around to get the cold side.

Body doubling.

So body doubling, everyone will recognize the term and know what body doubling is.

If you don't, it's essentially having somebody near you, being in close proximity with somebody, whether that's in person or virtually.

And just being with somebody, you feed off their energy and it gives you enough energy or motivation to start the task and get through something.

It's like an accountability hack, basically.

um but yeah basically very simple i think body doubling is brilliant for all dhd it gives that gives structure it gives visibility i think it feeds into the people pleasing a little bit you don't want to let the person down who's with you and it gives you accountability and i think i advocate body doubling for anyone listening okay yeah body doubling's a really really good one i guess that is that what like a sponsor is in aa and stuff

Someone who, if you're feeling really bad and you're feeling like you just can't do something in AA, the context would be if you can't stay sober, then you get on the phone or you get on a Zoom call with your sponsor and they give you that accountability to...

to not pick up that drink so yeah good advice body doubling body doubling number two number two pay attention to what you do when you are alone we've spoken a lot about self-awareness on this podcast and building self-awareness and i think one of the biggest clues as to who you really are after years of masking which someone with all dhd has done plenty of is really like paying attention what you are doing when there's nobody passing judgment on you what do you watch on youtube

What songs do you listen to?

What computer games do you play?

What books do you read?

Because they're a good indicator of actually who you really are, probably after being confused for many years because you felt like the need to shapeshift and adjust who you are in order to fit in.

So paying attention to what you do when you're on your own is probably the biggest self-awareness exercise that will help steer you into having a lot more self-understanding and making decisions that are better to your overall well-being.