Y’all, I am bursting with opinions and feelings about the ongoing ADHD medication shortage. There’s a lot to say here. About the pharmaceutical industry, about health insurance, about the state of healthcare in the United States generally. However, I’ll save that for another day. Today I want to share a few lessons I’ve learned, because […]
Tag: privilege
Internet of ADHD weekly roundup: August 7 & 14, 2020
It’s another double header! All kinds of stuff in here, from parenting to meds to the “ADHD tax.” Engaging in Your Child’s Play Without Interrupting | Janet Lansbury This gets at something I’ve always really valued as a parent: boundaries. I was interested in the way she talks about children’s perception of our comfort when they […]
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 […]