What’s masking What’s real? Is there such a thing as reality in a world with thin layers that bleed as they peel Are rhymes a high note...

Just because you say so, surfing, light-hearted words

on writing, ADHD

wall to climb, relief, grief over what could have been

Factors I considered I would smile, had an ‘expressive’ face and was viewed as ‘excitable’.

Be kind, love, peace, hope, pain, change, the universe

I blamed me.

Judged, I care, passionate, interrupting, ‘over’-talking, physically painful, shame, a few short words

free flowing, poetic journal, hard on myself, tasks ADHD, spoken word poet-style, rhythm and rhyme

soothe,

ADHD awareness, working hard, exhaustion, masking, trying feeling behind shame. The basket on the water, poetry, child like,

shifting, flowing, invisible bruises from where? high legs and elbow bumps, spaces to not feel my cares

ADHD and shame, poetry on trauma, sometimes I despair at the world

Introduction, notes, poetry, ADHD and internal messaging received, shame, IBS

ADHD women, society’s judgement, my shame

Non - ideal. So, a good response would be..

Responses to adult ADHD diagnosis, poetry journal

late adult ADHD diagnosis

personal moments - spoken word poem Breathtaking, my life, my story, body, rejection sensitive dysphoria, pandemic, key workers

You bend and you flow