Growing up hearing “Wikipedia isn't a valid source” and then entering a workplace where people say “just ask ChatGPT” is a surprisingly strange timeline
Autistic person here, people think I’m antisocial but I’m not. Solitude is how I recover from masking, constant noise, and being overstimulated. If I don’t get enough time alone, I don’t just get tired I completely shut down.
The smartphone really revolutionized the waiting room. Oh I get 20 minutes to look at my phone? Don’t mind if I do. The only problem is sometimes when I’m looking at my phone at home my home starts to feel like a waiting room and I realize it is and I’m just waiting to die
there’s something sooo beautifully ironic about how many hoops you have to jump through to get ADHD medication when my ADHD is literally the Bad At Doing Tasks Disorder
ADHD is the shame of being "gifted" as a child and useless as an adult. Everyone expected so much from you. And now you can't even fold laundry without a body double, a timer, and an existential crisis. The gap between your potential and your output isn't just frustrating. It's humiliating.
They always hit you with: “You don’t have to remind yourself to brush your teeth, right?”
…Right?
With ADHD, every single night it’s still a full conscious decision. I have to negotiate with my ADHD brain like it’s brand new info.
heated rivalry fandom literally got social media fics on spiritual level
but we have to acknowledge THE founding father which is United States v. Barnes, 617 F. Supp. 2d 143 (D.D.C. 2015)
Musical theater has to be one of the worst forms of music to love bc there’s so few people in the world who you can nerd out with about how the bootleg of Raul Esparza singing Franklin Shepard Inc is one of the best performances ever captured
The nerdiest people you know are freaking out about niche a cappella musical theatre songs being sung by the most insane assortment of theatre turned tv/movie stars you can think of and I think that’s just beautiful