Happy ADHD Awareness Month, peeps 🧡 this month, I'd thought I'd make y'all aware that I'm diagnosed with ADHD 🤯

It's been nearly a year and a half since my diagnosis and the clarity that I've received since has been validating: all the times that I could never sit still, had difficulty focusing, struggled with regulating my emotions, got in trouble for impulsivity...all clear symptoms in hindsight. Some days, I grieve that I was never neurotypical and I'll never know what that's like; other days I find it easier to extend grace to myself and embrace this part of me. Taking steps to manage it each day at a time has provided the most solace.

Those Eyy-Aye toy memes were grinding my gears, so I made one mostly for fun but partially out of spite.

Hi, hello, guess what I have been obsessing over for the past two months 🥷🏾🐢🔵🟣🔴🟠

TMNT was ubiquitous with growing up in the late '90s/early Aughts, but I missed out on it – then Mutant Mayhem shoved me down the rabbit hole. Now I've watched TMNT 2012, season 1 of TMNT 1987, and the 1990 movie - and hopefully even more!

For no bluebird crisis reasons whatsoever, I’m taking it back to 2014 and (metaphorically) dusting off my old Tumblr account! I’ve taken the liberty of completely retooling it exclusively for personal art going forward - and I have the 5,000+ reblogs-transfered-to-likes to prove it. As it turns out, deleting six years worth of outdated, link broken and/or irrelevant content is a Herculean effort - or at least a week’s worth. A fun wrist activity nonetheless.

Revisiting my old reblogs reminded me of all the happy and truly hilarious memories I had here, drama be damned. I’ve tested the waters sporadically in recent years and it appears that Tumblr is more lax now than it ever was. I think the grand majority of the toxics weeded themselves out years ago, and this platform is all the better because of it.