Intelligence can mask symptoms as you coast on your natural gifts, making the presentation of ADHD very subtle. Many people don’t get diagnosed until college when the deadlines, independence, and pressure lead to a greater presentation of
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“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of it goes: 'Blown from the dark hill hither to my door/ Three flakes, then four/ Arrive, then many more.' You can count the first three flakes, and the fourth. Then language fails, and you have to settle in and try to survive the blizzard”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I don't know what superpower William James enjoyed, but I can no more choose my thoughts than choose my name.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I get that nothing lasts. But why do I have to miss everybody so much?”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I have these thoughts that Dr. Karen Singh call "intrusives," but the first time she said it, I heard "invasives," which I like better, because, like invasive weeds, these thoughts seem to arrive at my biosphere from some faraway land, and then they spread out of control”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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