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 […]
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ADHD struggles happen on a spectrum of privilege, too
I intended to write this as a light-hearted post about my childhood report cards. A reader had emailed me to ask about them. They’d seen a few snippets in an old post and wondered: Did I have any more? I did. I do. That email sent me down kind of a rabbit hole. I looked […]