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Content Warnings: Religion, food, symbolic cannibalism, symbolic gore, penis mention, Blasphemy, SO MUCH BLASPHEMY, weapons, war mention.  Mind the warnings and your health always comes first. Its a HILARIOUS story, I promise.

As always, all the names have been changed to protect people’s identities.  This is a long one, so Press J now if you want to skip it.

When my dad was a young man and still a practicing catholic, he participated in a small church communion that nearly got him and six other people excommunicated.

Father Patrick ran a small church outside of California Polytechnical and tended to be… rather more liberal in his interpretations of scripture than most of the church was, which made him something of a hit with the local students and liberally-inclined populace.  Pat went to all manner of civil demonstrations, condemned the shit out of the vietnam war and the politics that lead to it and so on.  In January of 1969 a series of incidents lead him to start exploring “nontraditional” means of holding Mass as a means of reaching out to his community and exploring his own faith, which ultimately culminated in the 1969 Easter Mass Incident.

For those of you who weren’t raised catholic, Communion is this ritual where you become one with Jesus by eating a really horrible bland wafer cookie and taking a shot of wine (called hosts), which then *literally* become the flesh and blood of jesus in your mouth, allowing him to become one with you.  It’s big McFucking deal, and you have the opportunity to take communion at every mass.  All this had to be explained to me second-hand because after this and Dad’s 51 days in the army, Dad decided he wouldn’t inflict religion on any children he might have in the future.

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“Hey dad,” Six-year old me asked the first time he told me this story after my practicing friends were talking about getting wine at church. “Isn’t that cannibalism?”

“We’re getting to that.”  He waved.

“How did you forget already?!”

“Sorry, I had to delete some files. I don’t have a big hard drive.”

ADHD can result in difficulty remembering details, following instructions + switching tasks.

The struggle is so, so real. 💾

If I don’t take notes while reading or in a meeting, I will immediately forget nearly everything. I can’t rely on my brain to store things, so I’ve learned to overcompensate by writing everything down.

Asking me to “remember to do” something? I’ll likely forget about it 2 minutes later. My brain just doesn’t make room for things it doesn’t deem that important.

My husband and I can walk out of a movie and I’ll ask “what was your favorite part?” He’ll often reply “I don’t know. I know I liked it, but I already can’t remember the plot or any specific scenes.”

Not everyone with ADHD struggles with this symptom, but just a reminder that if working memory is difficult for you, you’re not alone!

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