The ADHD Skills Lab
The ADHD Skills Lab
Skye Waterson
You Won’t Outgrow ADHD Working Memory, So Build Systems Instead
31 minutes Posted Sep 29, 2026 at 11:00 am.
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You start an email, remember a purchase, open another tab, and suddenly five tasks are each 20 percent done. For adults with ADHD, working memory problems don't necessarily disappear with age. Skye Waterson and Robert Waterson unpack a 2013 meta-analysis of 38 studies on working memory in adults with ADHD. The researchers expected older adults to perform better. Instead, the review found adults with ADHD performed moderately worse on both verbal and visual working memory tasks, with age not c...