Editing Scott Adams (section)

==Personal life==
Since late 2004, Adams has had [[focal dystonia]], which has affected his ability to draw for lengthy periods.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050901066.html |title=Scott Adams, Drawing the Line |date=May 10, 2005 |access-date=January 28, 2008 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |first=Samantha |last=Sordyl |archive-date=October 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024211455/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050901066.html|url-status=live }}</ref>  He now draws on a [[graphics tablet]]. He also had [[spasmodic dysphonia]], a condition that causes the [[vocal cords]] to behave abnormally. In July 2008, he underwent surgery to reroute the nerve connections to his vocal cords,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/2008/10/scott-adams-dilbert.html |magazine=The New Yorker |title=An Interview with the "Dilbert" Cartoonist Scott Adams |date=October 29, 2008 |access-date=October 29, 2008 |first=Zachary |last=Kanin |archive-date=November 1, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101053420/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/2008/10/scott-adams-dilbert.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and his voice is now completely functional.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 27, 2006 |title='Dilbert' creator recovers from rare disorder |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15446515/ns/health-health_care/t/dilbert-creator-recovers-rare-disorder |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916015655/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15446515/ns/health-health_care/t/dilbert-creator-recovers-rare-disorder/ |archive-date=September 16, 2015 |access-date=January 7, 2016 |publisher=[[NBC News]]}}</ref>

Adams married Shelly Miles aboard a [[yacht]], the ''Galaxy Commodore'', on July 22, 2006, in [[San Francisco Bay]], in a ceremony conducted by the ship's captain.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 31, 2006 |title='Dilbert' cartoon creator ties the knot |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/07/31/dilbert-cartoon-creator-ties-the-knot/ |access-date=July 1, 2020 |website=[[East Bay Times]] |archive-date=July 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703171711/https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/07/31/dilbert-cartoon-creator-ties-the-knot/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The two had met at a gym in [[Pleasanton, California]], where Miles was an employee and Adams was a customer. Adams was stepfather to Miles' two children, Savannah and Justin, the latter of whom died of a [[fentanyl]] overdose in 2018 at age 18.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/02/dilbert-artist-scott-adams-stepson-dead-after-fentanyl-overdose/ |title='Dilbert' artist Scott Adams' stepson dead after fentanyl overdose |last=Barney |first=Chuck |date=October 2, 2018 |newspaper=[[The Mercury News]] |access-date=August 31, 2019 |archive-date=August 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831190000/https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/02/dilbert-artist-scott-adams-stepson-dead-after-fentanyl-overdose/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scottadamssays.com/my-stepson-died-of-an-opioid-overdose/|title=My Stepson Died of an Opioid Overdose|author=Scott Adams|date=October 17, 2018|work=Scott Adams Says|access-date=November 7, 2019|archive-date=August 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220822171614/https://www.scottadamssays.com/my-stepson-died-of-an-opioid-overdose/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation | work = [[The Daily Beast]] | url = https://www.thedailybeast.com/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-tries-to-sell-interviews-with-gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-survivors | title = 'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Tries to Sell Interviews With Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Survivors | date = July 29, 2019 | last1 = Grove | first1 = Will Sommer | access-date = July 29, 2019 | archive-date = July 29, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190729233546/https://www.thedailybeast.com/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-tries-to-sell-interviews-with-gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-survivors | url-status = live }}.</ref> Adams and Miles divorced in 2014, and Adams said the two remained friends, with Miles moving only one block away after their separation.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Bella|last=DePaolo|title= Dilbert Creator Discovers Single Life and Writes New Rules|url= http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/201409/dilbert-creator-discovers-single-life-and-writes-new-rules|access-date= July 1, 2020|website= [[Psychology Today]]|date=September 20, 2014|archive-date= March 8, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230308195010/https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/living-single/201409/dilbert-creator-discovers-single-life-and-writes-new-rules|url-status= live}}</ref>

On Christmas Day in 2019, Adams announced on his podcast that he was engaged to Kristina Basham,<ref>{{Cite web|date= December 30, 2019|title= Scott Adams Announces Engagement to Kristina Basham|url= https://culttture.com/2019/scott-adams-announces-engagement-to-kristina-basham/|access-date= July 1, 2020|website= Culttture|archive-date= July 1, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200701135858/https://culttture.com/2019/scott-adams-announces-engagement-to-kristina-basham/|url-status= live}}</ref> and later revealed that they had married on July 11, 2020.  Basham, a model and baker, has two daughters and is a vice president at WhenHub.<ref name="Hypnotized">{{cite news |last1=Winter |first1=Caroline |date=March 22, 2017 |title=How Scott Adams Got Hypnotized by Trump |work=[[Bloomberg News]] |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-22/how-dilbert-s-scott-adams-got-hypnotized-by-trump |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170326101433/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-22/how-dilbert-s-scott-adams-got-hypnotized-by-trump |archive-date=March 26, 2017}}</ref> On March 10, 2022, Adams announced on his YouTube podcast that he and Basham were getting divorced.<ref>{{Cite AV media|date=March 10, 2022|title=Episode 1678 Scott Adams: How Russia and Ukraine Can Make a Deal|via=[[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww9iFkoZHAc&t=2662s|access-date=March 10, 2022|archive-date=March 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314201035/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww9iFkoZHAc&t=2662s|url-status=live}}</ref>

Adams trained as a [[Hypnosis|hypnotist]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Adams |first=Scott |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46918467 |title=Dilbert - A Treasury of Sunday Strips: Version 00 |date=2000 |publisher=[[Andrews McMeel Publishing]] |isbn=0-7407-0531-8 |location=Kansas City, Missouri |oclc=46918467 |access-date=August 26, 2022 |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524032049/http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46918467 |url-status=live }}</ref> He credits [[Affirmations (New Age)|affirmations]] for many of his achievements, including scoring in the ninety-fourth percentile on a difficult qualification exam for business school and creating ''Dilbert''{{'}}s success. He states that the affirmations give him focus.<ref name="DilbertFuture" /> He has described a method he has used that he says gave him success: he pictured in his mind what he wanted and wrote it down 15 times a day on a piece of paper.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2012/04/12/can-you-get-rich-by-visualizing-yourself-rich/ |title=Can You Get Rich by Visualizing Yourself Rich? |author=Robert Frank |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=April 12, 2012 |access-date=August 4, 2017 |archive-date=October 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028044835/https://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2012/04/12/can-you-get-rich-by-visualizing-yourself-rich/ |url-status=live }}</ref> This technique is used by Dogbert in a 1989 ''Dilbert'' strip.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Adams |first1=Scott |title=Dilbert comic strip for 11/14/1989 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. |url=http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1989-11-14 |website=dilbert.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403045811/http://dilbert.com:80/strips/comic/1989-11-14 |archive-date=3 April 2013 |date=14 November 1989 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Adams continues to live in Pleasanton, California and is active in the San Francisco Bay Area.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Li |first=Andy |title=Reflections with Pleasanton's Scott Adams |url=https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2018/09/20/reflections-with-pleasantons-scott-adams |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=www.pleasantonweekly.com |date=September 20, 2018 |language=en |archive-date=January 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240123021555/https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2018/09/20/reflections-with-pleasantons-scott-adams |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-28 |title=The Not-So-Pleasant Side of 'Dilbert' Creator's East Bay City |url=https://sfstandard.com/2023/02/28/the-not-so-pleasant-side-of-dilbert-creators-east-bay-city/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=The San Francisco Standard |language=en |archive-date=January 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240123021554/https://sfstandard.com/2023/02/28/the-not-so-pleasant-side-of-dilbert-creators-east-bay-city/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

On May 19, 2025, Adams revealed that he had prostate cancer which had spread to his bones, and that he only had a short time left to live.<ref>[https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1924464966792610224 ‘Dilbert’ Coffee With Scott Adams 5/19/25]</ref>