310 ADHD & Friendships, Part 2: The ADHD Friendship Mistakes No One Talks About

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Making and keeping friends as an adult with ADHD can be really hard. We tend to move fast—bonding quickly, oversharing early, and sometimes getting burned. In this episode, I’m sharing two powerful (and practical!) skills that can help you build friendships that feel safer, steadier, and more fulfilling: going slow and listening better. If you’ve ever felt like friendship is either all in or all out, this episode is your gentle reminder that connection doesn’t have to be chaotic. You can take...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast, where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD.
0:13.8	I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD.
0:17.5	Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships,
0:22.8	working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder. I'll help you understand your unique
0:28.9	brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.
0:37.2	Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you're listening to the I Have ADHD podcast. I am
0:43.6	medicated, way over caffeinated, regulated, and ready to roll. I'm telling you, I've had way too much
0:50.9	caffeine. This episode's going to be a doozy. I hope that you can hold on
0:55.0	tight and stay with me. This is part two of how we adult ADHDers can create new, healthy enough,
1:04.0	healthy-ish friendships in our lives. And I feel a little high from the caffeine. I'm not the type of ADHD or that can have caffeine,
1:15.0	copious amounts of caffeine and go to sleep and not be affected by it. I know that there are
1:20.5	people like you out there, people like that who have ADHD consume so much caffeine and
1:27.4	are completely unbothered. That is not me. It's probably
1:30.8	related to why I don't take a stimulant medication for my ADHD. It actually makes me a little
1:37.6	loopy, a little bit too anxious. And that's kind of where I am right now. I got myself a little
1:43.6	ice coffee this afternoon
1:44.8	and I am telling you it put me over the edge. It put me over the edge. So hang on tight. Let's do
1:52.2	this together. We are all in it together. We are going to continue our conversation about how
1:59.0	adults with ADHD can create new friendships, how we can
2:04.1	create new friendships that are healthy-ish, healthy enough, maybe a little bit more healthy
2:09.5	than the friendships that we are currently in. Now, in last week's episode, we went pretty deep
2:16.6	and we talked about why friendships are so hard for us ADHDers.
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