There are too many people to thank, but I want to pay tribute to the people who allowed me to talk first.
Category Archives: mental health
ADHD Acceptance Month – Supports and Appreciation
I have hated myself since elementary/primary school age. Now I have become the support I needed.
ADHD Acceptance Month – Hobby Graveyard
ADHD Butterfly Source I have a lot. This is off the top of my head. There’s one thing about me that I really do love, and that is that I will give anything a shot if I want to do it. It’s meant I have quit a lot of stuff, but I’ve also tried moreContinue reading “ADHD Acceptance Month – Hobby Graveyard”
ADHD Acceptance Month – Reactions to Identification
It was a pretty disheartening start, but I have grown into telling people now.
ADHD Acceptance Month – My Identification / Discovery Story
I doubt I was an ADHDer for a long time, I wish I had better education and treatment earlier.
ADHD Acceptance Month – What I Love Being About an ADHDer is…
ADHD is so hard to live with – but it’s the most awesome hyperspeed life – I will die knowing I did everything I possibly could.
ADHD Acceptance Month – Introduction
Let the blogging madness begin…
Dear Childhood Rory
I know you won’t get this till it needs to be written. I wish it could have arrived sooner. There’s some lessons you needed to learn, but they came outside of school. You’re bisexual. Not gay, not straight. You love anyone who loves you back. It’s something you should be proud of, and one dayContinue reading “Dear Childhood Rory”
On Self-Diagnosis, My Story
It’s always disappointing to see the same problems occurring in the media around mental health, and especially neurodivergence. Not only were there a number of factual errors, but the very people meant to help us have made clear their ignorance.
You are not a burden. You have been burdened.
It’s time to put the blame where it belongs – on the system that set you up to fail.