AuDHD Therapist-Written Workbook | Autism ADHD Self-Understanding, Sensory Regulation, Executive Function & Burnout PDF (Digital Download)

Do you sometimes need routine and resist it at the same time? Seek stimulation and then become overwhelmed? Focus deeply but struggle to switch, begin, or recover? When autism and ADHD-related needs interact, everyday life can feel confusing and inconsistent—even when you are trying very hard.

This workbook offers a compassionate, non-shaming way to understand that push-pull. It is designed for adults with diagnosed, suspected, or self-identified co-occurring autistic and ADHD traits who want clearer language for their experiences and practical support that respects both sides of their needs.

Created by Caroline Aaron, MSW, LICSW, this therapist-written resource combines plain-language education, realistic fictional composite examples, worked examples, guided reflection, and practical tools. It explains why a strategy may help before asking you to use it, and it includes low-energy options for days when capacity is limited.

Inside the workbook, you will explore:

* Autism, ADHD, overlap, uncertainty, and the AuDHD push-pull
* My AuDHD Operating Map for noticing what helps and what increases friction
* A three-minute capacity check and one-support experiment process
* Routine and novelty, attention, task starts, transitions, and executive-function needs
* Sensory access, overload, regulation, and recovery planning
* Emotions, grounded self-compassion, masking, and autistic burnout
* Communication, processing-time, repair, advocacy, and support-request scripts
* A difficult-day plan and one-page personal support card
* My AuDHD Push-Pull Patterns Quiz, a 12-item, four-domain, non-diagnostic quiz that helps you notice your strongest current pattern and choose one support to test
* A personal path forward, selected sources, and a hopeful closing

You will receive two complete printable PDF editions:

* One 90-page full-color workbook
* One 90-page low-ink workbook
* US Letter size, 8.5 × 11 inches
* Instant digital download

The color and low-ink editions contain the same wording, order, exercises, quiz, and page numbers. Print the full workbook or only the pages you want to use. You may move through it in order, begin with the section that fits today’s need, or bring selected pages into individual therapy.

This is a digital product. No physical workbook will be mailed. After purchase, download the PDF files through your Etsy account and print them at home or through a professional printing service.

This workbook provides general education, guided reflection, and support planning. It is not an assessment, diagnostic tool, treatment plan, crisis service, or substitute for individualized medical or mental health care. If you are in immediate danger or do not believe you can remain safe, contact local emergency services or go to the nearest emergency department. In the United States and its territories, call or text 988.

Copyright © 2026 Caroline Aaron, MSW, LICSW / Peppie & Bean Therapy Tools. One purchaser may print this workbook for personal reflection. A purchasing clinician may print selected pages for direct one-to-one use with that clinician’s own current clients. Each clinician requires a separate purchase. The files may not be shared, uploaded, resold, redistributed, rebranded, placed in a shared drive or resource library, or used in a group program.