Get on the Ball!
“A chair is a very difficult thing,” concluded Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the great modernist designer and architect. It needs to be strong enough to support a person’s weight, and it must allow the sitter to assume a comfortable position for his or her chosen task - reading, writing, watching TV. And if you ever intend to move it, it needs to be made of materials light enough to allow that to happen.
Mies wasn’t even thinking of ADHD. In addition to the basic requirements, he didn’t consider the people who want — or need — to combine their sitting with bouncing, spinning, wiggling, or leaning back and forward.
If you, like me, are an ADHDer who has to spend a lot of time at a desk, sitting at a standard-issue office chair can be torture. You may have been the kid in class who endlessly twisted and turned on your chair in math class. Or you may have driven your parents crazy at the dinner table because no matter how much they pleaded with you, you just could not sit still. And now you have a job that requires you to sit at a desk, looking at a screen, for the better part of eight hours a day.
Maybe you need something different to sit on. Read more
