When most people picture ADHD, they picture a bouncing-off-the-walls little boy who can't sit still in class. More recently, that picture has been joined by a new one: TikTok videos listing twenty-two “signs” of ADHD, framed as though nearly everyone might have it. Neither picture is wrong, exactly, but neither one tells you what ADHD actually looks like in adult women. And that gap is exactly…
There is a particular kind of grief that does not have a clean name. It's not the grief of losing someone. It's the grief of watching someone disappear while they're still standing in front of you. Still in the same chair. Still with the same hands, the same face, the same voice, and yet somehow not quite the person you've always known. If you are caring…
A lot of adults carry something from childhood that's hard to name. It's not always a dramatic story. Sometimes it's just a persistent, low-level feeling of not quite being enough, of needing to earn your place in relationships, of knowing how to read a room but not always knowing what you actually feel. Of being great at taking care of other people and genuinely uncertain about…
