The Practical AuDHD Workbook: The Complete Guide to Managing Emotional Dysregulation, Sensory Overload, Executive Dysfunction, and Reclaiming Focus for ADHD, Autism, and ASD Minds

Autism and ADHD in the same brain don't add up. They pull against each other.

One side wants routine, predictability, the safety of knowing exactly what happens next. The other wants novelty, movement, the next idea. Advice written for ADHD tends to exhaust autistic readers. Advice written for autism tends to bore ADHD ones. If you are both, you have spent years assembling strategies from two sets of instructions that contradict each other — and blaming yourself when neither one holds.

This book starts from that contradiction instead of working around it.

What's inside

• Emotional regulation drawn from ACT, DBT and CBT, adapted for a nervous system that escalates fast
• Sensory strategies for overload — and for the days when the same input isn't enough
• Executive function tools built for task initiation, not willpower
• Rhythms rather than schedules: structure that survives a bad morning
• Burnout recovery, including how to come back without burning out again
• Self-advocacy scripts for work, school, and the people who love you
• Seven real accounts of what living with AuDHD actually feels like

Companion workbook included — 25 printable worksheets

The book explains the tools. The companion workbook gives you the pages to use them on: the Emotion Trace Log, the Sensory Profile, the Energy Map, the Gentle Re-Entry Ladder, and twenty-one more. One worksheet per tool, laid out with wide spacing and no time pressure, because a worksheet you can't stand to look at is a worksheet you won't use. Download code on the last page.

New in this revised edition

A complete References section — every study cited in this book is now listed in full, so you can check any claim for yourself. Author information, publication details, and the companion workbook have all been added.

What this book is, and isn't

It isn't a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or a promise that your brain is secretly a superpower. It's a practical starting point, written in plain language, with its sources shown. Nothing here will apply to every reader — take what fits and leave the rest. If you read three pages and one of them names something you have never been able to explain, that is the book working.

Written for late-diagnosed adults, for people who suspect they might be AuDHD, and for anyone who has been told they are inconsistent when they were simply running two operating systems at once.