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Hacking Your ADHD

Traveling and Invisible Disabilities with Daw Barclay

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8702 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Hey team, this week I’m talking with Dawn Barclay about her book, Traveling Different: Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the Neurodiverse. Regardless of whether or not you have kids, traveling can be difficult when you have an invisible disability, such as ADHD. There are so many things that we have to keep track of, and even when we get there, there are still a host of things that our ADHD can make even more difficult.

Dawn has spent her career working in the travel industry as well as working as a travel writer. She wrote this book as a guide to what she wished she had 20 years ago. In our conversation today we talk about some of the many difficulties that come from traveling with neurodiverse children (and ourselves) and then what we can work on doing to help alleviate some of those stressors.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.

0:09.2

I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.

0:13.0

On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.

0:20.0

Hey, team, this week I'm talking to Don Barclay about her book, Traveling Different Vacation

0:25.4

Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the Neurodiverse.

0:30.8

Regardless of whether or not you have kids, traveling can be difficult when you have an invisible

0:35.3

disability, such as ADHD or ASD.

0:38.4

There are so many things that we have to keep track of, and even when we get there,

0:42.7

there are still a host of things that our ADHD can make even more difficult.

0:47.5

Don has spent her career working in the travel industry as well as working as a travel writer.

0:52.4

She wrote this book as a guide to what she wished she had 20 years ago.

0:56.1

In our conversation today, we talk about some of the many difficulties that come from traveling

0:59.9

with neurodivirish children and, of course, ourselves, and then also what we can do to work

1:04.6

on alleviating some of those stressors.

1:07.1

If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash 137.

1:14.6

All right, keep on listening to find out how traveling doesn't have to be quite so stressful.

1:26.5

So your book is travelinging Different Vacation Strategies for Parents of Anxious, the Influx, and the Nirodiverse, which I think is a great title because it covers a lot of area and it just talks about how we get.

1:40.1

We just need to do things a bit differently.

1:43.0

Yeah.

1:43.9

And so you want to tell me a little bit about the book?

1:48.6

I would love to.

1:49.7

It is what I consider the travel Bible for parents of children with invisible disabilities.

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