do you think we get to learn everything when we die or are the colors that exist between colors gonna be shrimp-only knowledge forever

Seeing people the same age as you doing awesome things with their life

What people think ADHD is like; *bouncing off the walls, screaming, constantly wired*

What ADHD is actually like; it took me 30 minutes to get up and put an energy drink in the fridge for tomorrow only to discover that I had already put one in there this morning

Ernie Bushmiller - Nancy, 1981

happy pride 

real talk my mom never invaded my privacy, always knocked and waited for my “come in” instead of barging into my room, never tried to read my texts or journals or notes, and I always came to her with sensitive subjects; to the point of telling her I lost my virginity the /day/ I lost my virginity

what I’m saying is: respect your kids’ privacy and they will come to you with shit you’re worried about them doing

take it from someone raised the opposite; not respecting your kid’s privacy and rooting thru all of their shit, making them feel paranoid etc, will just turn them into a very good liar who withholds everything/makes up convincing stories and is really good at hiding things from you right under your nose.

to my girls who have trouble in school

it might not surprise you to know that how mental illness is diagnosed is sexist.

most baselines for mental illnesses and the symptom criteria for diagnosis are based on studies of Caucasian males. this includes developmental disorders, like ADHD.

whether it’s a result of gender norms or of biology, girls with ADHD (all 3 types, including what was formerly called “ADD”) typically present symptoms differently than boys. for example: whereas boys might jump out of their seat and be very disruptive in class, girls might display hyperactivity through more subtle means, such as fidgeting and, especially, excessive or loud talking. once they get older, boys start having trouble completing assignments on time because, for example, at midnight on the night before it’s due, they’ll abandon a project to go to something else. girls, however, typically will not abandon projects - instead, they might just have a lot of trouble finishing them, or have a brand new idea for how to do the project at midnight, scrap everything and start all over. but they get it done - making it harder for teachers to notice they’re struggling.

because they’re often better at completing schoolwork and behaving in class than boys, the symptoms of ADHD often don’t catch up to girls until high school, college or early adulthood - when, suddenly, they cannot finish projects the night before and need to plan in advance/time manage - and they realize that they can’t.

i’m speaking here as a mental health worker and someone who has ADHD myself - if you’re a girl in high school or college who’s been struggling a lot, and that description rang true, consider a visit to a psychiatrist. you may have ADHD, and talk/medication therapies can actually change your life.

feeling a lot of love today for wlw with adhd that wasn’t diagnosed until adulthood and are now recovering from the experience of growing up with the compounded complications of self-hatred and internalized homophobia and misogyny while also being unable to name nor deal with the sense that there was something ambiguous but terribly wrong with you

me as your neighbor: *in my garden at 10 pm using a flashlight to pick basil*

bisexual culture is being very specific with the men you’re interested but having absolutely no type when it comes to girls because they’re all so beautiful

I ALMOST CRASHED ON THE FREEWAY BECAUSE I REMEMBERED THIS AND WAS LAUGHING SO HARD

EVERYONE NEEDS toWatCH THIS IM cRYIGN

OH MY GOD WHAT IS LIFE.

I was laughing so hard I was crying not kidding rn

This appeared again and I didn’t even need to watch it to start laughing

Why is this so funny

i know every single word to this video up by heart

this makes me so happy

that Relatable™ mental illness feel when you can’t tell if your workload is unreasonable or if you’d actuallly be able to handle this if you had a functioning fucking brain

Tadhdfw you can’t even feel grateful when people offer to help you with something because you’ve grown to always assume that they only do so because they think you can’t handle anything by yourself