Having ADHD means your vocabulary is either:
- toddler-level (“thingy”)
- Pulitzer Prize Finalist (“existential dissonance”)
or a happy little chaotic mashup of both with a little class and a lot of sass.
She helped so many people get sober/diagnosed with bipolar, raised a great daughter, wrote some really good books, raised loads of money for aids research (and let her nursed her friend while he died of aids before they knew the cause)
She was a heroic princess on screen and off
society thinks adhd is a hyper 8 year old boy who can't sit still in class. adhd is a 34 year old woman who hasn't opened her mail in 6 weeks, eats the same lunch every day, and cried in target last thursday because they moved the seasonal aisle.
@lottiespleb Reminds me of this old uber fic, where they havent seen in each other in yeaaaaarssss but "gabrielle" sees this escort that looks like "xena" but who doesnt ever get to touch her. So much angst!!! Love it.
being neurodivergent is having the vision of a CEO, the emotional depth of a poet, and the executive function of a walmart shopping cart with one fucked up wheel that squeaks.
Ive talked about how gothic horror is a fear of the remains of a now dead decadence of the past, ie haunted castles or old haunted mansions. Our modern version of this is evidently empty shopping malls and anamatronic pizzaria arcades
Women: I want to go for a run.
Society: You can't go alone. You'll get raped.
Women: I want to walk to my car in the parking garage.
Society: Alone? You better get someone to escort you, or you'll get raped.
Women: I want to live alone.
Society: You need a gun, an alarm system, a dog and probably a gun for the dog too.
Women: What about going to the park?
Society: Dangerous.
Women: Okay, I'll just go out for a drink then.
Society: Don't take your eyes off your drink. Watch out for predators spiking your drinks. Stay alert at all times.
Women: I was raped.
Society: Are you sure? That just seems impossible.