also, if you don’t value yourself and feel no one values you either, it can lead to believing you can’t hurt people. if you don’t matter to them you can’t hurt them. false beliefs i wasn’t even aware of until only a couple years ago. i did matter and didn’t believe it possible.

When your dog is sitting minding their own business

and they see you looking at them and sit up a bit straighter 💜

Ok I don't identify as struggling with puns/metaphors but this one took me a minute

Sorry I didn't text back! I actually saw your text .025 seconds after you sent it but I didn't want to reply immediately and seem like a total loser whose whole life is being glued to her phone so I decided to wait and then darkness took me and I strayed out of thought and time

This was such a revelation to me, as a 40+ late-diagnosed ADHDer. Never in my life has a 'habit' been something done on autopilot. ALWAYS it's been a chain built from bottom-up logic where I associate X event with Y activity quite consciously... 1/?

I'm not bad at change I just resent having to find all-new management techniques when the old ones took me years to craft AND be quiet about it because no one thinks this change warrants that effort.