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Aug 21

If ADHD Isn’t Real Then Why Is My Brain Basically A Piece of Old Cheese Because I Can’t Get My Meds?

HMM? RIDDLE ME THAT. — Listen, I was going to write this a couple of weeks ago when Matt Walsh was being Matt Walsh, which is to say a complete cretin who looks like a Great Value Martin Starr if Martin Starr was also rotting from the inside, which I don’t think he is. Martin…

Mental Health

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If ADHD Isn’t Real Then Why Is My Brain Basically A Piece of Old Cheese Because I Can’t Get My Meds?
If ADHD Isn’t Real Then Why Is My Brain Basically A Piece of Old Cheese Because I Can’t Get My Meds?
Mental Health

8 min read


May 12

Your Next Dog

You’ll love her, but you’ll love her differently. — I don’t remember the first time I heard the phrase “heart dog,” but I’m reasonably sure I rumpled my entire face into my skull so hard that a person standing behind me could have seen the revulsion. There are some words and phrases that I just do not like. They’re…

Dogs

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Your Next Dog
Your Next Dog
Dogs

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·Mar 29

Sometimes, ADHD is just really awkward

Or, why I’m so unbelievably clumsy — “I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time,” my co-worker says nonchalantly on a call. I stifle an eye roll because, in my family, there’s an often-told story about how I actually couldn’t do that. The phrase “walk and chew gum at the same time” is…

Adhd

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Sometimes, ADHD is just really awkward
Sometimes, ADHD is just really awkward
Adhd

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Mar 23

My Eating Disorder Doesn’t Erase My Complicity with Diet Culture

I perpetuated fatphobia. I was part of the problem. — As I tenderly rinse out a glass jam jar — which this time I will not keep because I have an entire cupboard that contains leaning towers of metal lids and rows of glass vessels of various sizes and, if we’re honest, lingering smells — I think about a handful…

Eating Disorders

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My Eating Disorder Doesn’t Erase My Complicity with Diet Culture
My Eating Disorder Doesn’t Erase My Complicity with Diet Culture
Eating Disorders

9 min read


Feb 18

People use the metaphor of snakes shedding their skin all wrong and I hate it

I was a weird snake girl and a pedant. I’m still both, I guess. This was originally published to my newsletter, Mischief Missives, which is free. I also have a newsletter about the history of mental health. You can subscribe to either, if you want. As you are well aware by now, some people were Horse Girls. I say “people” because Horse Girl is…

Personal Development

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People use the metaphor of snakes shedding their skin all wrong and I hate it
People use the metaphor of snakes shedding their skin all wrong and I hate it
Personal Development

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·Jan 27

6 oddly specific things that help me work with ADHD

Some number of years ago, I was working at a job that was OK, but was very strict about coming into the office. The boss loved seeing us all there, knowing where we were, and being able to just “drop in” whenever he had an idea. This was a very…

Mental Health

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6 oddly specific things that help me work with ADHD
6 oddly specific things that help me work with ADHD
Mental Health

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Dec 8, 2022

Doing the same thing but in different places

It’s a weird time to be a writer because there are vanishingly few places to write. A version of this originally appeared in my ~newsletter~ . Every time I move apartments, I take a moment to try to remember my last shower. In the hot, steamy cubicle, trying not to…

Writing

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Doing the same thing but in different places
Doing the same thing but in different places
Writing

4 min read


Nov 25, 2022

The Many Odd Theories of the Cornflake Man

A cereal killer of the human libido Look at this man: Here he is on a bicycle.

Mental Health

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The Many Odd Theories of the Cornflake Man
The Many Odd Theories of the Cornflake Man
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·Nov 11, 2022

ADHD hyperfocus — it’s a glorious thing when you can get it to work

When I was first diagnosed with inattentive ADHD, it was, quite honestly, kind of embarrassing to me. It didn’t fit my internal narrative about myself. I have a bizarrely good memory. I’m aggressively absorbed by my interests and can learn quickly. And when I’m working on something I enjoy, the…

Adhd

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ADHD hyperfocus — it’s a glorious thing when you can get it to work
ADHD hyperfocus — it’s a glorious thing when you can get it to work
Adhd

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·Oct 5, 2022

My ADHD doesn’t look like yours (and that’s OK)

A couple of weeks ago, my partner mentioned that he was frustrated by the fact that we have at least three “chaos” drawers in our home. He’s not wrong, and I’ve thought about it often since he mentioned it. One that has the things that only get recycled sometimes (wine…

Adhd

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My ADHD doesn’t look like yours (and that’s OK)
My ADHD doesn’t look like yours (and that’s OK)
Adhd

6 min read

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