July Awry

Let’s talk about ADHD, with a potluck of aids. Bring something (book, article, app, podcast, idea) that helps or has helped you survive on the mean streets of neurotypical land. Goblin.tools was introduced to me by this group, and I use it multiple times a day, especially for work.

Free parking! Insanely cool coffee shop with greater music and bathrooms.

Here’s a brain dump that was originally written by me, but then I put it through the goblin.tools “Formalizer” and selected “more passionate”:

I can't help but wonder why so many people choose to sign up for this group, yet so few actually show up. It’s a feeling that resonates deeply with me—I've been in the same boat, signing up for other groups only to be paralyzed by fear or self-doubt when it’s time to attend. It’s like an unspoken barrier, this overwhelming sense that everyone else knows each other perfectly, that I’ll be the outsider, the one awkwardly trying to fit in. Or maybe it’s the social anxiety that keeps us all held hostage, silently screaming inside while pretending to be fine. I truly believe that most of us here are wrestling with anxiety and depression, because for so long, women/non-binary people like us have been misunderstood, diagnosed with those conditions for years before the world even begins to understand how ADHD manifests in us. It’s a silent struggle, a battle fought behind closed doors, and I feel every bit of that pain. <<<< This tsums up what I wrote, only it’s 500000 times more articulate.

If you’ve been dying to hang out with people who have similar struggles and want to form a community, then please join us at Fan Girl Cafe!!