ADHD is having five basic needs competing for your attention, all feeling equally urgent, and somehow ending up doing absolutely nothing. You need to eat, pee, reply to that text, and do laundry, but your brain refuses to rank the tasks, so you just stand there buffering like a computer from 2003.
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We live on a planet where fireflies turn darkness into a light show and whales communicate across vast oceans. How can we witness wonders like these and still treat Earth as disposable? We’re not just destroying ecosystems; we’re risking the loss of extraordinary things we barely understand.
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There was something refreshing about a hiring process where you could walk into a business, talk to the person in charge, show that you were willing to work, and leave with a start date.
Now you can spend three weeks interviewing for a job that pays $15 an hour and still receive an automated rejection email.
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Imagine if enough people got tired of endless price increases and started buying DVDs, Blu rays and physical copies again. We could genuinely bring back neighborhood video stores and turn movie night into something you actually had to leave the house for. The old rental era had a charm that streaming never managed to recreate.
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The funniest part of replaying games from childhood is experiencing how much your problem solving skills have improved
The swordfish has no natural enemies except the penfish which is thought to be mightier.
I just heard someone refer to autistic burnout as a workplace injury and I… 🤯
Signs your ADHD is stronger than your autism: You avoid social situations and then randomly talk to a stranger for 30 minutes.
When I eat too much, I drink pineapple juice because I feel like my digestive system is digesting the food from the bottom, and the pineapple juice is digesting the food from the top so then there’s less food for me to physically digest
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Sometimes the elders weren’t the glue that held the family together. Sometimes they were the mask that hid how dysfunctional everyone was.
Sold a rug yesterday on marketplace . Today the buyer sent me a picture of it in his home. It looks perfect. What a sweet thing to do
One time my roommate was reading a horror mystery. He got halfway through, got so scared he threw the book into the sea. I bought the exact same copy, soaked it in seawater, and slipped it back into his drawer.
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being late-diagnosed autistic is realizing that “i’m easygoing” meant “i have no idea what my needs are.”
I wish people knew how awful ADHD limerence is. ADHD brains are so dopamine starved that people can make them so happy that they get addicted to them. It’s the same mechanics of an alcoholic, it becomes an obsession.
It’s absolutely devastating. It’s awful.
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Eldest daughters will say “don’t worry, I’ll figure it out” with absolutely no plan because historically somebody had to
My autistic nephew who speaks few words just told me, “I love you uncle John” crying for days 😭
You know what burnout looks like sometimes?
Getting irritated because someone asked you a completely reasonable question after you've already answered 47 unreasonable ones that day.
“My nerves bad”
- a Black multigenerational neurodivergent battle cry
ADHD PEOPLE DON'T NEED A JOB.
They need a business where they set their own hours, their own rules, and their own dopamine schedule.
As a Neurologist I need to tell you that how you speak about yourself wires your neural pathways 🧠 and shape your identity. Use empowering words when talking about yourself.
