Miss 1

#blackintech | former expat | traveler | reader | scorpion

[Enomfon Akpan @mydearenomfon]

One of my biggest dreams is to build a company that creates opportunities for women who started later than expected.

Internships and graduate trainee programs for women in their late 20s and 30s. Remote jobs for women in their 40s and 50s.

[Miss 1 @queserasera86]

I have had this same theory for awhile

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

So I have a theory, Neurodivergent people are designed for night but we are constantly glitching because we are forcing ourselves to day.

[✦ 𝓢𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 ✦🪐 @upshine3]

Calculate time in reverse.
That is, if I have an appointment at 4, I start scheduling my whole day in reverse: I have to be there at 4, so I have to leave my house at 3:15 and be ready by 3:10. Getting ready takes 40 minutes, so I have to start by 2:30 at the latest, so I have to shower at 2. For that, I have to finish my chores at home, which I estimate will take about 2 hours, so I have to start at 12, but first I have to eat lunch, so I'll start cooking it at 11... and so on...

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

I did not come up with this, I stole it from the internet but it doesn’t make it any less true.

ADHD is only motivated by 5 things:
- urgency
- challenge
- novelty and play
- interest
- being a contrarian little bitch

The amount of things that I do strictly out of spite should be studied 😅

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

i actually love cleaning the house, but with three conditions:

- start when i want
- take as long as i need
- i have to be alone in the house

[DE'RON 🌞 @deronworld]

still annoyed they didn’t capitalize on the 25th anniversary and release the soundtrack and a vinyl for this masterpiece 😭

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This has a clinical name. Revenge bedtime procrastination. And the ADHD version runs on a completely different mechanism than the neurotypical one.

A neurotypical person stays up late because they want more leisure time. The ADHD brain stays up because it spent every drop of dopamine it had on executive function during the day. Sitting in meetings, managing transitions, filtering impulses, remembering the thing you were supposed to remember. That burns through dopamine the way sprinting burns through glycogen. By 10pm the tank is empty.

But here's where it gets counterintuitive. The exhaustion is physical. The dopamine deficit is neurological. Those are two separate systems. Your muscles want sleep. Your prefrontal cortex is starving for the stimulation it was denied all day because it spent 14 hours on task-switching and impulse control instead of anything that actually felt rewarding.

The phone at midnight is the brain trying to collect what it's owed. Low-effort, high-stimulation content. Scrolling, short videos, rabbit holes. The exact profile of activity that delivers dopamine without requiring the executive function you already depleted.

The sleep researchers call this a "self-regulation failure." It's closer to a debt collection. You borrowed against your own reward system to function all day. The bill comes due at midnight. And the brain will not let you sleep until it gets paid.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

I just think it would be better for everyone if the people who make adhesive for maxi pads and the people who make adhesive for bookstore price stickers switched jobs

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The trailer for Questlove’s Earth, Wind & Fire documentary is out:

[BLH @_RareDefined]

You thought you were doing something when you were burning CD’s when you used these.

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

Neurodivergents will say “I need rest” but what they actually mean is “I need uninterrupted time where no one expects anything from me”

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

I got to talk to Robert Townsend. He called me a young genius and his cinematic son. You can’t tell me nothing right now!!

[🤍 @letitiasdaya_]

i truly don’t even see zendaya when she plays rue like it’s crazy😭😭😭 she’s such an amazing actress

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

The life you want requires the discipline and consistency you’ve been avoiding.

[blue @bluewmist]

When you stop reading books, you start losing verbal dexterity, depth of thought and imagination.
A closed book is a closed mind.
Don't EVER stop reading.

[Deirra @deirradecoded]

Also, buy physical media.

[Taylor Marie 🇬🇾 @_itstaylormarie]

Just found out 62% of workers don’t use their PTO. Not me though. I’m using my PTO, your PTO, their PTO I never cared

[Miss 1 @queserasera86]

THIS

[Ally Ally Oxenfree @AllyMalinenko]

All my mama cared about was that I was reading 😂

[` @lisaawrites]

i believe in re-reading and re-watching your favourite books & movies at different stages of your life.the plot never changes, but your perspective does.

[The Paradox @TheParadoxBand1]

hey that’s us 🤘🏽🖤