in a blind bind
“If you have been told that you are late and unreliable more than once, then not only do you lack punctuality, but you also lack decency and seriousness, which is certainly very annoying.” ― Auliq Ice i was always the last in the car in the mornings always my siblings and mother still make half-joking comments about this no matter how early i woke up no matter how prepared i was the night before i was last my tardiness was perceived as a deliberate act of will my tardiness was an expression of my moral failings as a human being i was shamed for always being late possibly subtly possibly not even deliberately let's talk about hyper-vigilance another day but i lived with the shame of Lateness for my whole life because of course, it didn't end did you know that the adhd brain struggles with this very abstract social construct of time we struggle every day with time blindness to varying degrees of course - because we are nothing if not varied we carry the dual burden of being un...