Bite‑sized wisdom for navigating ADHD, menopause, hormonal chaos, and midlife plot twists with humor, honesty, and feral determination.
✨ Why I Start Five Tasks at Once: The Kat‑Brained Art of Glitter‑Powered Task Switching I’m building this scoop shop, right? Cute idea. Fun project. Totally manageable. I decided cute little soap bars were the place to start. Just soap, totally normal, reasonable activity. But my brain? My brain said, “Just one thing? Cute. Anyway…”…
When a Small Comment Feels Like a Storm: Living With Rejection Sensitivity 🪶✨ The Quiet Intensity No One Sees Rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD) is one of those sneaky little gremlins that can hijack your whole day while everyone else is just… vibing. One tiny comment? Thunderclap. A neutral text? Suddenly sounds like “We need to…
When Your House Feels Like a Boss Battle: Sensory Overload at 2 A.M. (aka: The Witching Hour of Nope) 🪶✨ The Sneaky Ways Sensory Overload Shows Up When You Should Absolutely Be Asleep It’s 2 a.m. You should be dreaming. Instead, you’re awake, feral, and suddenly aware that your entire house is too loud, too…
🌱 When You Can’t Start Anywhere… Start With Dinner There’s a version of spring where I’m already halfway through my garden prep by now — beds cleaned out, weeds handled, rhubarb patch looking like a respectable citizen instead of a crime scene. This is not that version. Right now, the flower bed looks like it’s…
Object Permanence in ADHD: Or, Why I Forget You Exist Until 4 A.M. For most of my life, I genuinely thought I was just a forgetful, disorganized disaster goblin who probably wasn’t cut out for human relationships. People I adore would move away, coworkers I loved would leave a job, and from the outside it…
⚡ The Social Battery of a Menopausal ADHDer: Why Mine Is Basically a Tamagotchi on Low Power Mode Some people glide through social situations like they’re powered by solar energy.Meanwhile, I’m over here running on a 1998 Tamagotchi battery that’s been left in a drawer too long, blinking “LOW POWER” every time someone says, “We…
🛒🔥 ADHD Impulsivity + Menopause: The Feral Shopping Saga (Now With Survival Tips) ADHD impulsivity was already a problem, but menopause said, “Girl, hold my coffee,” and now my life is basically one long Amazon Prime fever dream. Packages show up on my steps like I’m running an underground black‑market zoo. I don’t even question…
🪶✨ Crow Brained Decision Fatigue: How to Balance the Strange Weight of Small Choices My grandmother loves to remind me that when I was little, any time I had to make a choice, I would immediately dissolve into tears because I simply could not decide. And now, as a well‑adjusted, well‑rounded adult in my 50s……
🌙 The Feral Midlife Survival Guide 🌑 Welcome to the Feral Era (It’s Not a Crisis — It’s a Transformation)If you’ve recently found yourself crying at a commercial, rage‑cleaning at midnight, forgetting why you walked into a room, or whispering “what fresh nonsense is this” at your own body… welcome to midlife. This midlife survival…
