Women and ADHD - - Saturday 22nd August 2026 - ADHD & Technology: Help or Hindrance?
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External brain, helpful sidekick, demanding little rectangle… or all three?
Technology can remind us where we need to be, help us organise our thoughts, connect us with people who understand, provide instant information and even find the things we have lost.
It can also swallow three hours without asking, place an entire shopping centre in our hands, keep us scrolling long past bedtime and create the uncomfortable feeling that we should always be available.
For our August Women & ADHD session, we are exploring our complicated relationship with technology.
Has technology made life with ADHD easier, or has it created a whole new collection of distractions, demands and dopamine traps?
We will be chatting about:
- The apps, gadgets, accessibility tools and digital strategies that have genuinely changed our lives
- Reminders, calendars, trackers and timers, including when they work and when they simply become part of the wallpaper
- Online shopping, gaming, social media and the pull of “just one more”
- The pressure to reply, react and remain available 24 hours a day
- AI, instant answers and having endless information at our fingertips
- Data, misinformation, online safety and increasingly convincing scams
- How devices designed to connect us can sometimes leave us feeling disconnected
- Whether technology supports our executive functioning or quietly creates more work
- How we managed before smartphones, and whether we actually did!
Research does not offer a simple “technology is good” or “technology is bad” answer. It suggests that the relationship between ADHD and digital media can work both ways, and that problematic patterns of use may matter more than screen time alone. Technology can also offer useful support, but no app, device or strategy works for every person or every ADHD brain.
This will be a curious, honest and non-judgemental conversation. We are not going to tell anyone to delete their apps, throw away their phone or complete a digital detox. Instead, we will share experiences, compare ideas and explore how we might make technology work for us, rather than constantly finding ourselves working for it.
Bring your favourite app, clever shortcut, life-changing gadget, digital disaster story or unanswered question. You are also completely welcome to bring nothing more than yourself.
Our Women & ADHD sessions are open to women aged 16 and over who have an ADHD diagnosis, are awaiting assessment, identify with ADHD experiences or are simply curious about how their brain works. No diagnosis is required.
Come and join a room full of women who understand that the same phone can be a lifeline, an external memory, a source of connection and the reason we suddenly have six parcels arriving tomorrow.