had felt good, but it was like the drip coffee back in America versus the espresso made in Europe.
“Sometimes I have all this energy, I'm unstoppable and I can do all these things at once, really fast, and then it keeps going, like a whirlwind and I can't stop it. Then other times I'm so muddled and I can't manage, so confused and angry and upset. I don't understand it.”
― A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir
― A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir
“every time you laugh at the idea of a man dressed as a woman, a trans girl gets more scared to come out”
― Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
― Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
“In reality, it was just people talking to each other, through centuries—carvings on walls, poems, radio waves, TV signals, and the internet—telling stories to show each other what we can survive, the chorus of survivors, of bad women and queers, of teachers and artists, repeating that same thing over and over in all the different languages: Get up, come out: resurrect yourself.”
― Burning Butch
― Burning Butch
“And all is well and beautiful as long as I keep moving. Why do I ever stop moving? Why did we stop moving, us nomads? What compelled us to settle down?”
― A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir
― A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir
“The problem was me.
If you are the problem, then no matter where you go the problem will come along for the ride. Whatever dream you follow, whatever supposedly virgin territory you travel to, and however many times you tell yourself that it's unblemished: if you are the problem there is no escape.”
― A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir
If you are the problem, then no matter where you go the problem will come along for the ride. Whatever dream you follow, whatever supposedly virgin territory you travel to, and however many times you tell yourself that it's unblemished: if you are the problem there is no escape.”
― A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir
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