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Description & Overview
Love your AuDHD partner without losing your health, identity, or right to fair agreements.
When autism and ADHD co-occur, a relationship can feel full of contradictory needs: a deep craving for novelty mixed with a total dependence on routine, or intense engagement followed by sudden burnout. The AuDHD Partner Handbook offers a practical framework to understand these complex patterns without becoming your partner's reminder system, schedule manager, or conflict buffer.
This guide introduces the Two-System Partnership Map, a practical framework designed to separate your partner's accommodation needs from your own personal limits, keeping both people visible and protected.
What You Will Discover Inside:
The Two-System Framework: How to offer respectful accommodation without quietly taking on full responsibility for the relationship.
Transition & Time Management: Clear ways to plan for schedule changes without stepping into a managerial role.
Sensory & Intimacy Tools: Use a Sensory Access Menu to negotiate a shared living space and discuss intimacy without guesswork or pressure.
Overload & Conflict Navigation: Clear strategies to handle meltdowns and shutdowns while holding firm, enforceable boundaries.
The Whole-Task Ownership Audit: Practical steps to make invisible mental load visible and redistribute household labor fairly.
Includes conversation scripts, decision tools, a Boundary Builder, and a structured four-week starting plan to make daily life calmer and more balanced.