Two are halves of one

[orpheuslament]

i need a poem to slice me clean in half & then i will be ok i think

[boymiffy]

and when will there be a friday when i AM in love? When.

[everyonehasamnesia]

As someone recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, one thing that’s been helping me grapple with the intense shame I have over all my “wasted potential” is accepting that potential doesn’t exist and never did.

This sounds so harsh, but please bare with me.

I procrastinated a lot growing up. I still procrastinate today, but less so. And yet, I got good grades. I could write an A+ paper that “knocked [my professor]’s socks off” in the hour before class and print it with sweat running down my face.

I was so used to hearing from teachers and family that if I just didn’t procrastinate and worked all the time, I could do anything! I had all this potential I wasn’t living up to!

And that’s true, as far as it goes, but that’s like saying if Usain Bolt just kept going he could be the fastest marathon runner in the world. Why does he stop at the end of the race??

If ANYONE could make their top speed/most productive setting the one they used all the time, anyone could do anything. But you can’t. Your top speed is not a speed you’re able to sustain.

Now, I’ve found that I do need to work on not procrastinating. Not because the product is better, even, but because it’s better for my mental health and physical health to not have a full, sweating, panicked breakdown over every task even if the task itself turns out excellently. It’s a shitty way to live! You feel bad ALL the time! And I don’t deserve to live like that anymore.

So all of this to say, I’m not wasting a ton of potential. I don’t have an ocean of productivity and accomplishments inside of me that I could easily, effortlessly access if I just sat down 8 hours a day and worked. There’s no fucking way. That’s not real. It’s an illusion. It’s fine not to live up to an illusion.

And if you have ADHD, I mean this from the bottom of my heart: you do not have limitless potential confounded by your laziness. You have the good potential of a good person, and you can access it with practice and work, but do not accept the story that you are choosing not to be all that you are or can be. You are just a human person.

[i-am-not-a-guardian-deactivated]

if you would be so kind as to reblog this if you feel insecure about your writing skills.

[belovedtaylor]

men will never know what it’s like to be a 70s al pacino ocean vuong in the mood for love “let me stay tender-hearted despite despite despite” succession mary oliver louise glück dog day afternoon sylvia plath pride and prejudice “yes i do believe in love at first sight but i also believe that you would love absolutely anybody if you knew their story” the social network phoebe bridgers the orange dead poets society tumblrina maurice 1987 rina sawayama ada limón before sunrise npr tiny desk concerts “you didn’t know me at thirteen / i wish i did” soup richard siken portrait of a lady on fire “it’s rotten work / not to me not if it’s you” andrew garfield stan

[studentlifeproblems]

[mauxanhduong]

[image description: a tweet by user @/CHIPANIMUS that reads “What happens in your head when you do 27 + 48? PLEASE respond I’m tryna see something”. end id.]

[vanish-cherry-deactivated202509]

i stack them on top of one another as if i was doing it on paper and visualize it that way lol

7+8 = 15, carry the 1

2+4+1 = 7

75

[skeletonsunkencity]

I add 40 extracted from 48 to 27

27 + 40 = 67

Then i add the remaining 8 to 67

8 + 67 = doesn’t happen in my head

So what i do is add 3 from 8 to 67 to make it evenly 70

Then i add the remaining 5 left from 8 - 3, to the 70

Then 70 + 5 = 75

I KNOW ITS LONG BUT HAPPENS FAST ENOUGH THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.

[polkadotmotmot]

Tanja Softic - 49 Notes on Being There, 2016

[4am-reflections]

there’s something about you that makes me want to be better. i look at you working so hard and achieving all of your goals and it makes me want to do the same. i want to be the best version of myself for you because you look at me and i know i can be.

4am

[disabilityhealth]

Anyone willing to help me dispose of a body? 

 It’s mine btw

[soidowhatido]

Listen Up Philip (2014)

[skeletonsunkencity]

someone: hi

me: are you sure

[foxerdoodle]

“What’s your sense of humor like?” Me:

[theniftyfox]

My therapist tells me I’m hard to read for some reason

[leidgott]

[skeletonsunkencity]

brain: you're depressed today

me: what?

me: why?

brain: no reason you just are

me: but...

brain: no buts. cancel all your plans and isolate yourself until I tell you you can do otherwise

[br-o-ken-poetry]

And before you know it, life has changed. It has become a blur - of late nights spent alone in unmade beds. Of hands trembling, lips shaking, avoiding people’s eyes and questions. It shows in the dark bags beneath your eyes and the way your nails crack a little easier than they used to - but you’re fine, you tell yourself. Nothing is wrong so how can anything be wrong? You’re fine. You’re fine…

broken thoughts (via br-o-ken-poetry)

[there-will-be-violence-deactiva]