Sobbing uncontrollably reading through a dissertation about the college experience of students with ADHD. It is like reading a report about my life that just says over and over "My experiences are real. My hardships are real. I am not lazy, I am not dumb. My struggles were not my fault, and they were not a moral failing. The failure was with the system, not with me."
Here's a line that got me in particular:
"Hotez et al.(2022) compared the health, academic, and non-academic capacities of a nationally representative sample of U.S. first-year college students with ADHD and without ADHD. Students with ADHD self-reported lower academic aspirations and more feelings of depression and overwhelm, ranking themselves lower in their general emotional health. The fact that students with ADHD scored in the highest 10th percentile for many non-academic traits, such as artistic ability, computer skills, creativity, public speaking, social confidence, self-understanding and understanding of others, compassion, and risk-tasking, suggests that this population has strengths that are frequently underappreciated in academia."
(the paper is a thesis called "Understanding the Collegiate Experience for Students With ADHD" by Gia Long, 2022)
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sometimes I think about this lil section from one of their DC Pride stories and I cry <3
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BOO
SKETCHY!!!??!?!
HELLO!?!?!?!?!?!??!!??!?!!?
THIS IS!?!?!?!?!? GORGEOUS!?!?!? WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE TO DESERVE SUCH LOVELY ART!!!!!
IM SOBBING AND SLAMMING MY HANDS ON THE FUCKING TABLE I CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO FORM WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE SHOT OF PURE DOPAMINE THAT JUST ROCKETED INTO MY BRAIN!!!!!!!! SKETCHY!!!!!!!! SKETCHY WHEN
WHEN
I
GET
YOU!!!!!!!!!
WHEN I FUCKIN GET YOUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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it's the way ty's hand is like longingly holding onto kit's hair for me~~~
god they're so in love i'm sick (with heartbreak)
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oh god my birthday is so soon ( monday )
gonna be 19 babey !!!!!!! older than goro ever got Haha ( haha.... hah )
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Yeah…so I just got to the scenes of Ai di blowing out the birthday candles by himself…y’all-
Im literally SOBBING
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i’m not crying YES OF COURSE I’M FUCKING CRYING
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i just kinda wanna be ooey gooey about free! for a second.... i always get so sad when ppl who didnt stick with it still harp on it as just being fanservice and “the gay swimming anime” bc like. sure, it is both of those things, but also. you literally cannot deny that the story is something so deeply human and personal and loving.
like, it’s about doing what you love, but making sure it’s good for you, and that it’s what you really want to do. it’s about finding purpose in your life and in the things you enjoy, and the connections you make with other people. and how those connections will forever shape you, for better or for worse, and if you want it to be for the better, you have to put your own foot forward and take it into your own hands.
and it’s about how nothing that you love ever comes to an end. those bonds, those memories, will last forever, and they will always be there to help you.
it was so popular in 2013 when it first aired bc it was “the gay fanservice anime” of the year, but man, the story as a whole... like the actual story is so lovely. and i think it’s such a shame that the general view of it is so closed-minded because the general public didn’t stick with it past season 1. allow the love and whimsy of unshakeable friendship into your heart!!!
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i was hurled back into my hunter x hunter phase just a moment ago when i came across hisoka and kurapika’s official songs (AKAKU. AKAKU. AKAKU. MOESAKARU).. i had such a raging crush on kurapika and killua back in the day, you wouldn’t even believe.
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