My Patients Are Getting ADHD Diagnoses at 40. Here’s What’s Really Happening
Their masking is so effective that even health care providers miss it.
🤯
”When estrogen fluctuates wildly postpartum or during perimenopause, ADHD symptoms often get dramatically worse. Studies show that up to 70% of women report a significant worsening of ADHD symptoms during perimenopause, yet almost none of them were told this would happen”
#ADHD #AuDHD
11.03.2026 10:12
👍 28
🔁 11
💬 4
📌 7
The men obsessed with not being cucks, everyone
11.03.2026 14:52
👍 9
🔁 1
💬 0
📌 0
I like to think they're all lying about their shoe size to him because none of them want to admit to having small feet.
11.03.2026 14:52
👍 0
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Fellow job seekers, how are you balancing the need to, you know, pay your mortgage, with not doing work that makes the world worse?
11.03.2026 13:50
👍 5
🔁 1
💬 2
📌 0
I've started looking heavily into higher ed jobs, too. It's a different set of issues, but it's an environment my ethics feel safer in.
Also, if you know of any good places that are looking for instructional designers or technical writers... 😉
11.03.2026 13:57
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
I am having this exact same issue in my job search. I look up companies, have certain words and phrases that are orange flags to me. I have some hard no's in applying. I'm accepting that I might have to take a lower paying job to stick to what I believe in.
11.03.2026 13:57
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
Journeyman Fiber Arts
Handspun, hand-dyed yarn in natural fibers. Elevate your next knitting or crochet project with yarn that’s already art.
I’m a trans man, a poet, translator, and fiber artist. I wrote a new literary translation of the book of Ruth you can get here:
www.lulu.com/shop/atkinso...
And I sell handspun yarn (like made on a spinning wheel) here: journeyman-fiber-arts.myshopify.com
11.03.2026 12:08
👍 3
🔁 2
💬 0
📌 0
Politicians and pundits trying to aura farm as centrists when they're really crawling into bed with bigots.
11.03.2026 07:51
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
10.03.2026 19:33
👍 2908
🔁 1439
💬 106
📌 64
‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’
‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’
‘Hello’ is not related to either.
Goodbye.
10.03.2026 16:17
👍 6263
🔁 1151
💬 232
📌 149
Every time u have to make a doctor appointment for anything I am reminded of how broken US healthcare is. We really should stop tolerating this. It’s so terrible! And why?
10.03.2026 16:08
👍 947
🔁 54
💬 41
📌 5
As I keep saying, at least I'm alive and that's the important part.
10.03.2026 02:41
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
That's fantastic! I've been having a rough patch of stomach stuff since Christmas, and finally gave in to eating chicken again, which I haven't in ages, after getting diagnosed with severe gastritis. I recalled it as being one of your safe foods, right?
10.03.2026 02:37
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
I'm glad to hear you're improving! I've thought of your health often as I've had my ups and downs.
10.03.2026 02:11
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
Man.
The world fucking is on fire.
So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people.
Live whats left of your only life.
If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul.
Fuck the haters.
10.03.2026 00:42
👍 3776
🔁 1262
💬 16
📌 19
There's an emerging undercurrent in AI skepticism as the EO mandating its use in K-12 education is rolled out and mothers are pushing back on untested tech ed taking over our children's learning.
10.03.2026 01:51
👍 23
🔁 6
💬 1
📌 0
We're well enough! I'm still unemployed, but we're getting along. The kid has a sparkling new ADHD and writing disability diagnosis, but was placed in the enrichment reading program and is tearing through chapter books. How are you?
10.03.2026 01:46
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
I've been wondering where you were!!!
10.03.2026 01:35
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
One of the more mild ones is that he got kicked off the church's cemetery board when they were cleaning up grave stones and he dropped one on his foot and swore to high heaven in the graveyard.
10.03.2026 01:19
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
There are so many stories about my great-grandfather. He was definitely a character, but rarely in a good way. Lots of early 20th century one-main-street-town Pennsylvania Dutch culture lore.
10.03.2026 01:19
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
My dad was just a little kid when his grandmother died, but he remembers his grandfather tearing apart the house, looking for a will, and muttering that "the kid wasn't even his."
10.03.2026 01:14
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
She was pregnant with his best friend's child when my grandfather killed him in a car accident. So, he married her and the child was stillborn. Thus began a very, very, very unhappy decades long marriage.
10.03.2026 01:14
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
The marriage makes a really good case for the benefits of divorce.
10.03.2026 01:06
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 1
📌 0
His mother gave one name in the hospital, his father gave the minister at his christening another name, and because they weren't talking, she didn't correct him.
This is even more funny because my uncle was named to be a jr.
Imagine going from George to Calvin in a day.
10.03.2026 01:03
👍 8
🔁 1
💬 2
📌 0
My grandfather didn't have a birth certificate until he wanted to go to an Ayrshire convention abroad and needed a passport...
Upon receiving his birth certificate, he learned that the name he'd used for over six decades wasn't his name at all, but his parents weren't speaking when he was born.
10.03.2026 01:03
👍 10
🔁 2
💬 2
📌 0
also something happening here (you can see it w/ the price of oil today) that ties into my larger feeling of *too much happening and too fast.* struggling to explain it but it feels like the dynamics of the physical world have been replaced by online ones. you get trump trying to ctrl-z the economy
09.03.2026 22:23
👍 551
🔁 98
💬 11
📌 7
AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?
09.03.2026 23:31
👍 3072
🔁 952
💬 28
📌 5
09.03.2026 21:36
👍 5
🔁 2
💬 0
📌 0
In Bluesky news:
09.03.2026 19:05
👍 55
🔁 11
💬 3
📌 2
i actually think "books should be difficult and somewhat painful to read and you are Bettering Yourself through Struggle" is a worse attitude for mass literacy than "I have specific preferences and like reading a lot of fun stories" tbh
09.03.2026 11:42
👍 719
🔁 98
💬 18
📌 12