Esther Kidd

“Mom chose to wean me off the Ritalin, inspired none by the lack of general information provided to her about the drug itself or how it might affect me long-term. I came back to the living world more irritable and angsty than I'd been before, more skeptical too, offended that I seemed to be the only one who knew that I had physically and spiritually lost time.”
― Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

“Time is an anarchy.

There are whole sections of years that have, in my mind, disappeared, time revealing its tricks to me like a cocky necromantic. The gaps are caverns of absence, temporal wormholes, where all I can recall is the sensation of being stretched between many different dimensions of crisis at once.”
― Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

“Things are going to be hard for you because your brain works differently from other people's. Know that now. There's nothing wrong with you. Smoothing happened to you that changed your chemistry and now your brain is different. Do you understand what I mean?

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I'm sorry, but you have to show the work, she says. You have to do it yourself. Do you understand me? she asks.”
― Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

“Study the sky but never love it. It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty