Can we talk about how exhausting it is to be emotionally intelligent in situations that don't deserve your understanding. To see everyone's perspective when nobody is extending the same courtesy to yours. To regulate your reactions while others express everything without filter or consequence. To be the bigger person so consistently that nobody even acknowledges it requires effort. Emotional intelligence is a gift.
The hardest part of ADHD isn’t starting a habit. It’s doing it perfectly for 10 days, missing one day and your brain immediately acting like you never did any of it.
Making new friends is cool until you realize that’s just more expectations that need to be met on your end like no I’m good. I’m not trynna have to always show up for yet another person outside of myself, selfishly and honestly fr
As independent as I am, I still love to be babied. Acts of service are how I feel loved. I don’t care about money, just lighten my load. I’m too prideful to ask for help, but when you take the initiative and handle things without me saying a word… that means everything.
What a privilege it is to afford a gym, buy healthy food, pay bills, have legs that walk, eyes that see, a brain that functions, work every day, and take our bodies to their full potential.