Distributed Accountability

A collaborative support strategy where responsibility for remembering tasks, meeting deadlines, and maintaining organizational systems is shared across a network of people rather than resting solely on the individual. For ADHD students, distributed accountability manifests through class Discord servers where someone always mentions upcoming deadlines, group chats that function as memory safety nets, and online communities that provide passive exposure to important academic information. This approach compensates for the impaired working memory and organizational challenges associated with ADHD by externalizing memory demands to social networks.