something clever

Ashley. 23. she/her. queer. geek. social activist. theatre kid. seattle

[theprincessleia-deactivated2021]

incorrect star wars quotes - princess leia, pt. vii

[healingsuggestions]

you’re healing, slowly but surely. you will move on from this, there is light in your soul and your heart, you will make it. 

[kriegsrhetorikinspace-blog]

trauma is not defined by the traumatizing thing that happened.

trauma is defined by the reaction of the person who experiences it.

if you are traumatized by something, then the thing that happened was traumatic.

if you are severely traumatized by something, then the thing that happened was very traumatic.

it does not matter if other people experienced the same thing and were less or not at all traumatized by it. because the only thing relevant for judging the severety of trauma is your reaction to it.

[lithographarry]

Gimme

[team-joebama-deactivated2019033]

28 year old Barack Obama, in his first Vanity Fair appearance after becoming president of the Harvard Law Review

[veryfunnymemes]

[gotitforcheap-deactivated201611]

[just-a-skinny-boy]

Yes thank you google, how did you know that the very first option I wanted was a Starbucks that’s two and a half thousand miles away good job google

[officialbrony]

don’t worry though, there’s light traffic

[sciencealert]

Mm, windows. Not sure why this bunny is licking a window, but it’s too adorable not to share.

Image: Tertywerty/Imgur http://ift.tt/24BI7LD

[tastefullyoffensive]

[drpepper2]

Me

[sufnlower]

It's Different for Girls with ADHD

“Dr. Ellen Littman, author of Understanding Girls with ADHD, has studied high IQ adults and adolescents with the disorder for more than 25 years. She attributes the under-diagnosis of girls and women—estimated to be around 4 million who are not diagnosed, or half to three-quarters of all women with ADHD—and the misunderstandings that have ensued about the disorder as it manifests in females, to the early clinical studies of ADHD in the 1970s. “These studies were based on really hyperactive young white boys who were taken to clinics,” Littman says. “The diagnostic criteria were developed based on those studies. As a result, those criteria over-represent the symptoms you see in young boys, making it difficult for girls to be diagnosed unless they behave like hyperactive boys.”

ADHD does not look the same in boys and girls. Women with the disorder tend to be less hyperactive and impulsive, more disorganized, scattered, forgetful, and introverted. “They’ve alternately been anxious or depressed for years,” Littman says. “It’s this sense of not being able to hold everything together.” 

Further, while a decrease in symptoms at puberty is common for boys, the opposite is true for girls, whose symptoms intensify as estrogen increases in their system, thus complicating the general perception that ADHD is resolved by puberty. One of the criteria for ADHD long held by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, published by the American Psychiatric Association, is that symptoms appear by age 7. While this age is expected to change to 12 in the new DSM-V, symptoms may not emerge until college for many girls, when the organizing structure of home life—parents, rules, chores, and daily, mandatory school—is eliminated, and as estrogen levels increase. “Symptoms may still be present in these girls early on,” says Dr. Pat Quinn, cofounder of The National Center for Girls and Women with ADHD. “They just might not affect functioning until a girl is older.” Even if girls do outwardly express symptoms, they are less likely to receive diagnoses. A 2009 study conducted by at The University of Queenland found that girls displaying ADHD symptoms are less likely to be referred for mental health services.”

This is so important. [source]

[clittyslickers-deactivated20250]

oh man

[563a-qua]

@le-mighty

[daeint]

how do girls in girl groups not fall in love with their group members 

[wwhat-evenn-deactivated20171123]

apparently its called “being straight” idk i dont really understand that way of life

[thishartominefeelz]

Never heard of it.

[pipistrellus]

i like in hamilton how they tell us that the islanders all chipped in to make sure that hamilton could go to the mainland and Make Something Of Himself like HE IS TOO TALENTED TO REMAIN HERE

but then much later its like… “he used to give 6 hour long speeches” and ur like… ok… sure. “would you like to donate to a good cause ma’am” “what cause” “sending alexander hamilton to another continent” “heres my life savings”

[jessicaillinoischicago]

#buy my silence for $8000 a month

[floatinggoathead]

[floatinggoathead]

look at this dipshit

[youaremyeverlovin]

she fetched the WHOLE TREE!! !!!

[usbdongle-deactivated20200531]

tacky kitsch is the real backbone of united states culture. roadside attractions, weird diners, buildings shaped like objects, restaurants with like a shark or a car sticking out of the roof, lawn flamingos – this is the true heritage of the west

[slightly-oblivvyous]

Shoutout to everyone who has listened to me dump completely irrelevant information at them so my ADHD brain can process its own thoughts.

[cuntbreath]

Felix le chat