We’re taught to compete and to measure our success against our peers. If we’re not “keeping up“ or falling “low in the ranks,” it is a failure. Continue reading I wasn’t lazy. The system was rigged. – Your ‘honor roll’ wasn’t hard work. It was privilege.
The Art of the Personal New Year: Why I Reset in Spring, Not Winter What I’m “Burying in the Ground” and What I’m Cultivating This Spring I’m going to be 39 this year. My birthday is in about a month (give or take a few days). I am a spring baby, born in Texas in March 1987. Spring is one of my favorite seasons (with Fall close behind). Here, in Texas, Spring has already sprung – and I am loving it! As far as Texas goes, while many of our laws and corrupt government officials and politicians are ass-backwards, the … Continue reading My Birthday is Next Month: Savoring Sunsets While Packing a Go Bag – Turning 39 in a Texas Spring
For years, I thought I was broken. The real problem was a system that couldn’t see my Neurodivergent mind. I wasn’t a bad student. I was a Neurodivergent one.
Continue reading Was I a bad student, or was school bad for me? – What my Autism diagnosis taught me about why school failed me.
Unmasking My Neurodivergence: The Invisible Weight of My Neurotypical Mask and the End of a War With Myself – An AuDHD Late-Diagnosis Story – When “Try Harder” Doesn’t Work Continue reading My Best Was Never Enough – I Was Called Lazy When I Was Trying My Hardest.
I Almost Convinced Myself I Wasn’t ADHD. Then a Deadline Proved Me Wrong. What Does a Healed, Untraumatized ADHDer Look Like? I’m determined to find out.
Continue reading ADHD and Me – Is It Trauma, Autism, ADHD, or… All of the Above?: Years After Being Diagnosed, THIS YEAR I’m Finally Unpacking My ADHD Identity
Getting More Done by Committing to Less, and why I now tackle my hardest work before 9 AM… and the gentle accountability that gets me there.
Continue reading Taming the Tedious Tasks: My AuDHD-Friendly Morning Strategy
I Don’t Fight Winter Anymore. Why I’ve learned to embrace the slow, quiet months—and how it sets the stage for everything that follows.
Continue reading What Winter Teaches Me – Surviving and Thriving in the Slow Season by Harnessing the Quiet: A Strategy for Winter Creativity
My entire life, my memory was like Swiss cheese. Then, after working on my trauma, a switch flipped. I could finally remember my days. That’s when I knew…
Continue reading ADHD, Complex Trauma, or BOTH? – A Fog Lifted: What Happened When I Finally Stopped Dissociating
NeuroDivergent Camouflaging is a survival mechanism used to endure a world that is often dangerous and unkind to those of us who stand out. It is important to note that this camouflaging is done in self-defense and is not intended to be manipulative or deceptive. This Masking can be conscious or subconscious. We may not even realize we’re doing it. Continue reading NeuroDivergent Camouflaging & Pressure to Conform – Book Preview
I knew I was different, but not why, so I could only assume “I was bad” and had “something wrong with me,” making it difficult (or impossible) for me to do what everyone else expected me to do (easily). Not understanding why things were so hard for me made it worse.
Continue reading Late Identified NeuroDivergence: Getting Back in Touch with Myself and My Needs
