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My ADHD Profile — Strengths & Supports
You've probably heard plenty about what's hard. This is the other half of the truth: the real strengths that come with your wiring, and the supports that let them show. Naming your needs isn't weakness — it's how the strengths get to shine.
My strengths
Tick what fits, and add your own — creativity, hyperfocus, crisis performance, big-picture thinking, empathy, humor, resilience.
- [ ] Creativity and original, connective ideas
- [ ] Hyperfocus on what grips me
- [ ] Calm and sharp in a crisis
- [ ] Big-picture and pattern thinking
- [ ] Deep empathy
- [ ] Humor and resilience
My strengths, in my own words
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Where I shine
The environments, roles, or conditions that fit how you're wired.
Where and when I'm at my best
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My support needs
Stated plainly, without apology — what you genuinely need to function well.
What I need, said straight
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What I want people close to me to understand
What I'd want the people around me to get
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One place to shine: Pick one strength and one place to put it to work this month. A life built around your strengths beats one spent hiding your wiring.
Go deeper
Ready for more? These lessons pick up where this worksheet leaves off.
- Your ADHD Operating Manual, from The Adult ADHD Course. The capstone of the Adult ADHD Course: turn everything into one personal page — your strengths, watch-outs, tools, people, and a one-line reminder.
- What ADHD Actually Is (and Isn't), from The Adult ADHD Course. ADHD isn't laziness or a childhood-only label.
- Self-Esteem, Identity, and Late Diagnosis, from The Neurodivergent Brain. Why misunderstanding erodes neurodivergent self-worth, what late diagnosis really feels like, and how to reauthor your story.