“I’m trying to relax.” “This can be a chill trip.” “It’s only one night.” When I heard myself say these words last weekend, an alarm sounded in the back of my mind. I tried to ignore it. After all, it was only one night. We would leave Saturday morning to visit out-of-town relatives and return […]
Author: Jaclyn Paul
How academic ability masked my obvious ADHD as a kid
This is the first in a series of posts about my journey from ADHD-oblivious, to ADHD-curious, to where I am today. See the full series here. I could’ve gotten an ADHD diagnosis in high school. Maybe even sooner. I could’ve avoided years of stress, anxiety, shame, and overwhelming emotional highs and lows. Instead of wondering […]
Is “time blindness” an ableist term?
Every once in a while a gentle reader shoots me a comment or an email about my use of the term time blindness. I once saw my work reshared with a content warning re: my use of the term. They explained time blindness was a more commonplace and accepted descriptor for ADHDers’ time perception impairments […]