I'm taking a deep breath with you. You know I've followed along as an observer and a student of yours for years. Everything you have transparently discovered about yourself as you teach, chosen to share in your newsletter down the road, and the things you will never share... it all equals to the same Mar who leaves me feeling related to just the same. You and I have a lot of differences when you look at our lives from the outside, but I somehow don't feel much of a gap in who we are as humans.
I was recently diagnosed with ADHD at age 42 and felt very similar about it, due to the shame behind why I lack basic skills like organization, taking physical care of myself, etc. Take heart in knowing this writing reached a fellow "tornado person" who needed it.
"The skill of writing long form requires an ability, or rather a willingness, to zoom in and to zoom out over and over again. To see the whole picture of the project from a bird’s eye view, and then to be a little beetle crawling beneath each sentence to see if it makes any sense."
Would anyone like to book club the synchronous masterpieces that are Mar and Anna Fusco's newsletters today? I am shooketh as the kids say, in the best way.
Just received my own bipolar and ADHD diagnoses. thank you Mar.
“To be willing to dive bomb into whole sections to get the worm, or scurry under words and devour and spread them out as fuel for the next piece of truth that spills out. “
I was diagnosed with ADHD last year at the age of 45. Now I’m mostly working on not depending on a diagnosis to make me feel better about and less annoyed with myself so often.
I'm taking a deep breath with you. You know I've followed along as an observer and a student of yours for years. Everything you have transparently discovered about yourself as you teach, chosen to share in your newsletter down the road, and the things you will never share... it all equals to the same Mar who leaves me feeling related to just the same. You and I have a lot of differences when you look at our lives from the outside, but I somehow don't feel much of a gap in who we are as humans.
As always, thanks for sharing. xo
I was recently diagnosed with ADHD at age 42 and felt very similar about it, due to the shame behind why I lack basic skills like organization, taking physical care of myself, etc. Take heart in knowing this writing reached a fellow "tornado person" who needed it.
"The skill of writing long form requires an ability, or rather a willingness, to zoom in and to zoom out over and over again. To see the whole picture of the project from a bird’s eye view, and then to be a little beetle crawling beneath each sentence to see if it makes any sense."
I love the way you put this!
Would anyone like to book club the synchronous masterpieces that are Mar and Anna Fusco's newsletters today? I am shooketh as the kids say, in the best way.
Just received my own bipolar and ADHD diagnoses. thank you Mar.
“To be willing to dive bomb into whole sections to get the worm, or scurry under words and devour and spread them out as fuel for the next piece of truth that spills out. “
THIS line!!!!!
I want the spaciousness but also the specificity of knowing what I am!!!!
So beautiful, thank you.
Marlee, I hope you are okay! Sending you big love ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜
the last two lines! chills!
reminders for yourself as much as for everyone else here. thank you.
Every single part relates to me so much, thank you for sharing and being vulnerable. I need to body-double, too. Bipolar, C-PTSD and ADHD here!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful reflection. Thank you!!!
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I was diagnosed with ADHD last year at the age of 45. Now I’m mostly working on not depending on a diagnosis to make me feel better about and less annoyed with myself so often.
With you in so many ways. Tears. Thank you. Hugs from VT.