Special Torture (or how to grin and bear it)

Category Archives: education

Neurotypical Failure

July 15, 2025 | ADHD, ASC, autism, DysAuDHD, dyscalculia, dyslexia, education, health, life, mental health, neurodivergence, pain, school, selfcare, Uncategorized | Permalink

The Moon from Mystical Moments Tarot by Catrin Welz-Stein For most of my life, I’ve felt like a failure. A rather fair-to-middling one, I grant you—I did have loads of privilege and a cussed determination to fall back on—but a failure nonetheless.  Let’s get right to it. I started struggling—and failing—young. My entire academic life […]

Dys-issues

May 20, 2025 | ADHD, dyscalculia, dyslexia, education, life, neurodivergence | Permalink

Hoo Nelly. So, for reasons I’ll go into later, I have been trying to learn some stuff A few weeks ago, I took a deep dive into relearning some rules about sentence structure and punctuation. It was challenging. It took loads of repetition and practice to lock in some of the grammar rules that I […]