Reblog if you distinctly remember what these tasted like 🤦♀️
Y'all. I'm finally getting evaluated for ADHD.
You ever meet a young adult who’s had it rough and in your head you’re just like “I must adopt you”? Must protecc? These Gen Z kids are going to be okay. We’ll make sure of it
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🙃 I had to buy food so now I’m extra poor! If anyone would be able to float a few dollars my way my venmo is fuzzycricket93, I can only repay you in terrible tumblr content and cat photos.
So it was basically like a pre-evaluation with my GP today and they were like “damn bitch you live like this???” and immediately gave me a psychiatric referral 😅
Y'all. I’m finally getting evaluated for ADHD.
I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.
Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.
The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.
I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.
Think of it like TV shows. If they just go on forever… their quality tends to decline significantly. I think more positively about shows that knew when to quit while they were still good. That doesn’t mean something *can’t* or *shouldn’t* be a lifelong thing for you, but if something turns out not to be, that doesn’t mean it was a failure. (Schitt’s Creek vs. Grey’s Anatomy, for example. One of those, the far better of the two shows in my opinion, knew when to call it quits. The other is Grey’s Anatomy.)
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