Permission Slips You Keep Waiting For

Grab the Guide ... FREE! If you've spent years thinking the problem with planning is you — too scattered, too inconsistent, not disciplined enough — this guide is FOR YOU! Visit and get started today! --- There's a kind of waiting most ADHDers know well — waiting for someone, somewhere, to say it's okay. Okay to rest. Okay to stop masking. Okay to take the accommodation. Okay to want what you want without justifying it. In this conversation, we get into the permission slips we keep waiting for, often from authority figures who may not even exist anymore. We talk about why ADHDers wait — the research-backed link between years of childhood correction and adult reliance on external validation — and what that has to do with decision paralysis, rejection sensitivity, masking, and the exhaustion of performing a version of yourself that you didn't sign up for. Plus the swan, self-determination theory, and a small concrete first step you can try this week. Links & Notes Download The ADHD Permission Slip! Support the Show on Patreon Dig into the podcast Shownotes Database (00:00) - Welcome to Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast (02:05) - Patreon.com/TheADHDPodcast (03:15) - Your Permission Slips ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Permission Slips You Keep Waiting For is an episode from Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast by TruStory FM.

This episode is 32:19 long.

This episode was published on Jun 4, 2026.

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