I’ve rewritten this intro about five times now.
Each version tried to sound smarter or cooler or more stable than I actually feel.
But this one is mine.
This blog is where I’ll come to breathe out. To say the things I keep inside my head.
To tell stories from my life—raw and real and tangled up in joy and grief and growth.
I’m a woman with autism and ADHD. That fact touches everything I write, even when I’m not writing about it directly.
This blog isn’t about being perfect. It’s about being.
Some days I might share art. Some days I might ramble about masking or perfectionism or the strange comfort of watching plants grow.
Other days I might just need to say, “Today was hard.”
That’s all welcome here.
So if you’re reading this, thank you. I hope something here makes you feel a little more seen.
Hi Kayla Sue 🙂
I just found your blog via one of your posts (which showed up as a search result — I have very idiosyncratic search methods 😉 ).
IMHO, you write very well — *extremely* well! 😀
You also seem to understand categorization and tagging very well.
And maybe also teaching, neurodiversity, and other stuff people might find interesting.
I have a hunch that you also understand language quite well. You may be aware of how messy it can get, the labels and such. I sometimes refer to that jazz song — “you say potayto, I say potahto — LET’S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF!”
What I want to say is: IDGAF about neurodivergence — mostly because I know there are lots of people who will get upset about how to define it or whatever.
I do not doubt that you may very well be helping a lot of people who *are* interested. I prefer to use words + language that almost everyone understands, can agree upon, etc. Of course this is also easier said than done. Plain and simple can be confusing, too.
I think being confused is a sign that you care, that you care to wonder, that you want to find out, etc. Apparently, some of the smartest people to ever walk the planet were also quite confused at times (for example: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bob Dylan, Socrates, OMG this list could be endless 😛 ).
Whatever, never mind!
🙂 Norbert
Thank you for your feedback. I greatly appreciate it.