So I really didn’t do a real introduction because I didn’t really know if this was gonna be one of them other communities or something or some thing that didn’t work out to help or whatever. But I’m legally blind and have like 9% total vision and I’m colorblind. So I use like speech to text so a lot of my comments may seem rambling because my brain rambles 24 seven no matter how much medication I take. So I just wanted to introduce myself for real this home. I’m 36 before I got bored with school. I finish school at 11. I had my associates at 12 my bachelors at 13 in my masters at 14. But now, unfortunately, since I want to swap career path or I guess I never really went on a career path I kind of gave up to raise the kids. Now I took the LSAT I got a 180 but they don’t wanna take my credits from college because it’s been 22 years so I’m navigating this college life with ADHD and autism while raising ADHD and autistic little ones as a single parent and trying to pick up the pieces of our trauma filled lives. On the bright side, I’m six years sober, one of my children are home from foster care and I’m still fighting for the other, I also have sole custody of my exes two children. I’ve been on this parenting path since I unfortunately was forced into it at eleven. ( I gave birth to twins at the 11 fathered by my foster dad and watch them brutally murdered In Front of me. So I took my next set born at 13 and ran so I’ve been on my own since then). I guess I couldn’t get the normal supports because I was a runaway foster child. So at the moment, I’m in college again because I feel like I’ve lived through so much. There’s no way God put me through all this trauma if I’m not supposed to do something with it. So I feel like I’m gonna be a lawyer. In some way I’m gonna help children, domestic violence, people something I don’t know yet. I’m not doing it for the money. I’m doing it to change lives. I’m challenging myself to become the best me so that I can help other people escape the violence and trauma that I had to go through and become their best selves. It doesn’t all make sense to me yet, but that’s my goal. So anyway, nice to meet you all. I hope y’all don’t mind that I’m transgender and kick me out of the community please I’ve been kicked out of so many please don’t do me like that. Scared to share my truth so because y’all might kick me out, but y’all seem so supportive I feel like I can be honest about my identity with you guys. Hopefully, I’m right. Let’s go team let’s work on us and get better and stronger

Section 2 of the Awakening Assessment just showed me something I've been hiding from myself: I learned to be "the intelligent one AND the invisible one" at the same time. No wonder I'm exhausted. And the part of me that wants to walk the beach in my "few remaining years"? She's done waiting.

Just started the ADHD Awakening Assessment and already realized something wild: my "getting sidetracked" isn't distraction. It's my brain trying to catch thoughts before they vanish. Every task I abandon is actually a rescue mission for something I was about to forget. Twenty minutes in and I'm already seeing myself differently. ---

Biggest insight: I am a fish. I cannot climb a tree. BUT I CAN SWIM! My open loop is: Getting the dishes done. One word for how I feel right now: Doubtful.

Hi, my name is Diana. I was born and raised in northern California. After getting married, I lived in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York for 46 years. A few years after my husband passed, I moved to NE Kansas to be closer to my daughter and her two children. I also have a son and two more grandchildren in western New York. I retired from the New York State Unified Court System 13 years ago. To keep busy, I now watch my youngest grandson on weekends while my daughter works. I also volunteer at the local food pantry a couple of days a week. I always wanted to retire near the ocean, so I'm hoping to move back East within the next couple of months.