Hi, my name is Nancy from Louisville, Kentucky, USA (where it's Derby🏇Time!). I am 20 years divorced. I'm also newly retired, thanks to having been termed from my last job by a manager who kept placing new hoops to jump through in my path, just to trip me up. (I don't trip easily, mind you. But my meticulous documentation of her behavior made her scared of me.) Yes, it was a toxic workplace in general. But before I realized I was being targeted, my RSD didn't help the months I spent documenting, defending, overexplaining, and feeling psychologically unsafe! 🤔) My career & life experiences are all over the map - not by choice, but mostly because of hurdles and roadblocks caused by my elevated JUSTICE barometer, and defense of defenseless underdogs! (READ: my concerns and whistle-blows were dismissed, and I didn't understand why "harming others" seemed to be the daily routine!) Thanks, ADHD. Just officially diagnosed last November. I'm 67. I check all the boxes. Bittersweet, to learn and look back at what "might have been", and to feel fully ENGAGED now, finally approaching an end to my self-sabotage. I always knew I was different, as we all do in here. In my family, I was "difficult, shamed, disruptive, smarter than everyone else (but not in a way they could comprehend, so there was no one to talk to...etc. etc. etc.) Thanks for being my new "tribe". I look forward to sharing. You can ask me questions about: - narcissism survival - domestic violence survival - PTSD I want to get these things from ADHD Harmony: - Community - Sharing - Knowledge from your experiences For fun, I like to: - Be with my grandkids (I'm the super-NaeNae!) and my 3 sons, of course - Listen to and play all types of music - Bring people together for mutually beneficial connections - Cook, bake, plan events, and entertain - Custom crafting of all kinds: creating salvage art, painting rocks that look like characters, large wall/pool murals, sidewalk chalk art, theatrical makeup and props, and the list goes on....

The belief that's been holding me back: justification and excuses, "it's not for me". Where it came from, a few over exaggerated poor exeriences with authority. My new code: "I'm in charge. I am can make it for me!" My Future Self statement: "I am the kind of person who keeps showing up for me and not for anyone else."