Lee Skallerup Bessette

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Assistant Director for Digital Learning @cndls. Writer. I put the E in ENFP. It’s not grit, it’s hope. Proudly size XL. Co-host of All The Things #ADHD podcast

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S6 E11: Maybe Try Writing It Down?

Apr 19, 2024 | allthethingsadhd.com | Lee Skallerup Bessette

Aimée was name-dropped in a new Taylor Swift song, but that isn’t actually what the episode is about. What it is about is thinking (quickly! This is our shortest episode that isn’t just me addressing you and wishing you a sappy new year!) about the difference between reading a book, taking hand-written notes, and what we can learn about materiality and embodiment even though we don’t actually say those two words. Shortest episode, longest sentence?
S6 E10: SPRING ZOOMIES!

Mar 12, 2024 | allthethingsadhd.com | Lee Skallerup Bessette

I swear, it’s only been a few days, and I completely forgot what we talked about for this episode. Finally, Otter.ai Insights proved useful to remind me what happened. We’ve talked about Spring Fever before, almost exactly two years ago. What’s changed? Well, we’re actually a little but better-adjusted and more attuned to how the changing of the seasons impacts us, but also what our potholes towards the road to…not driving ourselves insane are. Following?
S6 E8: Writing the Neurodivergent YOU - The Guidebook, Part 1

Feb 16, 2024 | allthethingsadhd.com | Lee Skallerup Bessette

The title is a mouthful. The podcast actually has some structure, with a build in cut point for part two that doesn’t involve me going incoherent. We have talked a great length about how advice meant for neurotypical people just doesn’t work for us, but how do you go about figuring out what DOES work for you and then making note of it so that you can have your own, personal self-help guide to share with yourself and even others? Oh, and here is the article that inspired Aimée in all this.
S5 E7: Crip Knowledge

Jan 26, 2024 | allthethingsadhd.com | Lee Skallerup Bessette

This was supposed to be what the last episode was about, but we took WAY too long to get here (and I am desperately trying to find where Aimée finally says it in the episode, but then gave up and just said it in the intro I recorded). Crip knowledge. Learn from it!Transcript (where it is called crib knowledge!). Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Deezer | RSS | More
S5 E6: Aimée Gonna Aimée

Jan 19, 2024 | allthethingsadhd.com | Lee Skallerup Bessette

Well, this episode went so far off the rails that it had to be two episodes. Aimée tells the MOST AIMÉE STORY EVER, and we think about how all the things that we were told that were wrong with us maybe weren’t so wrong after all? And, again, sorry if we ignored you on Instagram. Transcript, which AI has yet to be able to figure out really what we’re saying. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Deezer | RSS | More
S6 E5: STOP RESTING SO OTHER PEOPLE CAN STEAL YOUR THUNDER

Jan 9, 2024 | allthethingsadhd.com | Lee Skallerup Bessette

Ahem. We’re back! We rested. And our rest doesn’t look like other people’s rest, but ALSO, we’re finding ourselves resting for VERY different reasons than other people seem to rest, and how we used to rest, which wasn’t very restful at all at all. I realize now that the title might be misleading, that we want you not to rest because while you rest others are stealing your thunder, but almost the opposite?
Universal Design for Whom?

Dec 11, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Lee Skallerup Bessette

At the start of the fall semester of this year, I was responsible for organizing a faculty development event to help faculty prepare for the upcoming semester. We were going to have a larger keynote on artificial intelligence, and then break into smaller groups for more targeted workshop opportunities, depending on faculty interest and need. The main room for our workshops is an experimental classroom with various forms of seating and configurations.
S6 E4: I Shouldn’t Have To Do This

Nov 6, 2023 | allthethingsadhd.com | Lee Skallerup Bessette

Aimée is in a MOOD. We have less time to do the things we are good at because we are being required to do more and more things that we, as neurodivergent people, are terrible at. This may be controversial, but why should have have to do things that we never had to before, were never expected to do, AND are and will continue to be bad at? While we’re focusing on higher ed, I think you will be able to think about this issue within the context of your own profession or job.
S6 E3: Hey Sue, We’re Still Here!

Oct 23, 2023 | allthethingsadhd.com | Lee Skallerup Bessette

Sue, this one is for you. I still didn’t look up what ADHD is in French. Which, MIRACLE. But also we’ve been busy. We talk in this episode about BIG FEELINGS. BIIIIIIIIIGGGGGG FEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS. We have them, you have them, we talk about them. We make no promises about when E4 will drop, but trust us, we’ll be back, and we try really hard to get these out in some sort of timely way.
S6 E2: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Sep 1, 2023 | allthethingsadhd.com | Lee Skallerup Bessette

Since this is our 6th season and 85th episode, Aimée and I decided it was time to reconnect with our past selves as expressed by past episodes, and where we hope we (and you) dear listeners go in the future. We’ve even set an intention already for another episode next week!Also, we need a German word.