Everything about cleaning is wrong
The mess is distressing. The cleaning is distressing. Nobody writes 'and here's what to do when both are the problem.'
Dropping the mask.
Field guides for the brain you actually have.
I found out I was AuDHD at 47. This is what I wish someone had written for me.
Latest
The cotton wool days
For years I lay in bed waiting for a grey feeling to pass. It wasn't depression. It was my brain at the bottom of its stimulation range.
The grace they won't give you
Everybody else gets to have a bad day. When I finally have one, it gets logged as evidence.
What we talk about here
The Tug-of-War
When your need for routine and your need for novelty arm-wrestle and you lose either way.
Hormones & Perimenopause
When perimenopause shreds the coping mechanisms you spent 30 years building.
AuDHD Life
Actual systems that work for a brain like ours. Not awareness. Not theory.
Relationships
When you are managing yourself AND another adult AND nobody sees it.
Motherhood
Being a mom with a brain that was never designed for constant sensory input.
Late Discovery
From "what is wrong with me" to "nothing was ever wrong with me" — and the rage in between.