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I’m about to finish my associate’s doing this exact thing! I’m an adult student that went back in my mid-20’s, and I’ve been able to pay for the first two years of college completely without loans because the tuition was so much cheaper, and it gives me access to specific transfer… Read More

My therapist break-up was thankfully more gentle, but no less necessary. I started to realize towards the end that we were getting into things that were out of her realm of expertise, and I started to self-diagnose and realize she was misinterpreting things that were actually signs… Read More

When your professor wants to know wayyyy too much. I had a geography professor for an online course email everyone a week before the semester even started and demand we all send him our personal phone numbers, home addresses, personal emails, “available hours”, and that we “get a… Read More

Man, scrolling random BuzzFeed articles at 4am really sends me to weird algorithmic places

I was 22 and jogging in my neighborhood in the middle of the day. Guy in front of me bent down pretending to tie his shoe until I passed him, then he followed me for three blocks and two turns. I was close to my apartment but didn’t want to show him where I lived, so I jogged past… Read More

A lot of these are just things that people with ADHD or autism do without realizing it’s a “red flag”. 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, etc. They may be signs that someone has difficulty with social cues, not necessary signs that they’re a terrible person.

Lmaoooo 13-16 I’m dying what 13yo picks cranberry Brie and Brussels sprouts 😭💀 im almost 30

Being a “gifted” kid meant my ADHD went undiagnosed until adulthood because I didn’t struggle in class like ADHD kids are “supposed” to. Even now, in my late 20’s, half my family doesn’t believe the diagnosis because I’m “too smart for that” (as if that has anything to do with it).… Read More

As someone who went from fairly skinny in high school to fat as an adult, the shame of being seen by people that I knew “back then” is overwhelming sometimes. I hate posting any photos on social media or going back to my hometown, because I can’t shake the feeling that anyone who… Read More

I had been working in a call center at a large credit union for almost 5 years when COVID hit. I always knew my job was sometimes a little predatory with sales, and customer service is always mentally taxing, but it was a job with benefits. Then COVID brought out the true colors of… Read More