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So I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but I'm guessing yes. As I type this, I keep checking my wounds to see if they actually need band-aids -- I recently parted company with a little bit of skin on the palm of my left hand, the back of my left forearm (I'm talented like that!) and my left knee (and even a tiny bit on my right knee... but not nearly so bad as the left). All three of these locations are grotesquely swollen and beginning to turn interesting colours like green and purple… Continue

I thought this was hilarious. Twice now (with a different mindset each time) I have filled out eHarmony's sign-up questionnaire or whatever it's called, just out of curiosity. I was as honest as I could be each time, and both times I got this:

"Unable To Match You At This Time

eHarmony is based upon a complex matching system developed through extensive research with married couples. One of the requirements for successful matching is that participants fall within certain defined profiles. If we… Continue

So I was doing my daily webcomic rounds when I came across this little gem from Randall Munroe's xkcd webcomic. It expresses what I have felt so incredibly many times and have not been able to describe as anything other than "total sensory overload" where there is just too much going on for me to even try to process, and I end up tuning it all out.


I was sitting in the student lounge at my college a couple of mo… Continue

We all do it sometimes. We get absorbed in something, and hours pass in the blink of an eye. The old adage "time flies when you're having fun" is somewhat true, but for many people with ADHD, or for myself anyways, it should read "time flies when you're concentrating on something." It doesn't have to be fun necessarily, just absorbing. For me, if I'm "in the groove," nothing will bring me out of it, short of the phone ringing (very rare in my house!) or an extremely urgent signal from my bladder… Continue

So for the first time in my life, I finished an entire academic semester with full academic supports. I have my digital voice recorder with indexing to help me with my notes in class, I have permission to take notes on my laptop, I have text-to-speech software to help me stay focused while reading, and I have software to help me with the process of planning and organizing things. I have a good quality headset to use with my speech recognition software when writing papers. I have access to an aca… Continue