HeatherHopefully
@heatherhopefully.bsky.social
(she/her) MSW, CSW (KY); AuDHD: Adult Dx ADHD, Self Dx Autistic; proud Appalachian (WV); mom of 4; hobby hopper extraordinaire.
I made the mistake of putting it out into the universe that I was "bored" and "didn't have enough to keep me busy" after suddenly finding myself with nothing to do and no job after I finished grad school in December.
The universe answered with:
- high blood pressure that ended my #ADHD meds 1/
The universe answered with:
- high blood pressure that ended my #ADHD meds 1/
March 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I made the mistake of putting it out into the universe that I was "bored" and "didn't have enough to keep me busy" after suddenly finding myself with nothing to do and no job after I finished grad school in December.
The universe answered with:
- high blood pressure that ended my #ADHD meds 1/
The universe answered with:
- high blood pressure that ended my #ADHD meds 1/
And people who FaceTime or hold speaker calls in public should be tarred and feathered.
2001: "I paid $0.99 for this Linkin Park song to be my ringtone."
2025: "I have not had my phone off of vibrate-only for ten years. People who have audible ringtones are psychopaths."
2025: "I have not had my phone off of vibrate-only for ten years. People who have audible ringtones are psychopaths."
February 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
And people who FaceTime or hold speaker calls in public should be tarred and feathered.
Seriously, fuck this administration. My absolute dream job is maybe not happening now because of the uncertainty with Medicaid/Medicare reimbursement.
Trying to stay positive, but I kind of just want to mope and cry about it.
Trying to stay positive, but I kind of just want to mope and cry about it.
February 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Seriously, fuck this administration. My absolute dream job is maybe not happening now because of the uncertainty with Medicaid/Medicare reimbursement.
Trying to stay positive, but I kind of just want to mope and cry about it.
Trying to stay positive, but I kind of just want to mope and cry about it.
I had a random flashback memory while watching X-Files last night. From 8 to 12, I used to keep spiral notebooks FULL of word for word synopsis of X-Files episodes, recalled and recorded immediately after watching the episodes. And I would reread them constantly until the new episode aired,
January 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I had a random flashback memory while watching X-Files last night. From 8 to 12, I used to keep spiral notebooks FULL of word for word synopsis of X-Files episodes, recalled and recorded immediately after watching the episodes. And I would reread them constantly until the new episode aired,
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The AuDHD experience when you get ADHD diagnosed first in my experience, and many others.
January 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The AuDHD experience when you get ADHD diagnosed first in my experience, and many others.
I just earned my first Middle-Aged Merit Badge. I had a colonoscopy this morning (a few years early because I have diverticulosis.
My take away? That propofol nap is the shit and I'd like one every week, please.
My take away? That propofol nap is the shit and I'd like one every week, please.
January 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I just earned my first Middle-Aged Merit Badge. I had a colonoscopy this morning (a few years early because I have diverticulosis.
My take away? That propofol nap is the shit and I'd like one every week, please.
My take away? That propofol nap is the shit and I'd like one every week, please.
Someone in my family has an early morning appointment every day next week, including Saturday. 😭
January 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Someone in my family has an early morning appointment every day next week, including Saturday. 😭
Actual footage of me after stopping all my GERD meds to prep for an endoscopy on Monday. I'll be sleeping in the recliner tonight.
January 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Actual footage of me after stopping all my GERD meds to prep for an endoscopy on Monday. I'll be sleeping in the recliner tonight.
Hospitals should give out a punch card for a free MRI or something after 20 visits.
With three teens doing checkups and followups and my own chronic health stuff, I feel like I've done nothing but visit medical offices for about a month.
With three teens doing checkups and followups and my own chronic health stuff, I feel like I've done nothing but visit medical offices for about a month.
January 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Hospitals should give out a punch card for a free MRI or something after 20 visits.
With three teens doing checkups and followups and my own chronic health stuff, I feel like I've done nothing but visit medical offices for about a month.
With three teens doing checkups and followups and my own chronic health stuff, I feel like I've done nothing but visit medical offices for about a month.
Good morning, pocket friends! I have been awake for 22 hours, it's is -6F outside, and tbh, I'm pretty salty about both of those things.
Going outside should not freeze your nose hairs.
Going outside should not freeze your nose hairs.
January 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Good morning, pocket friends! I have been awake for 22 hours, it's is -6F outside, and tbh, I'm pretty salty about both of those things.
Going outside should not freeze your nose hairs.
Going outside should not freeze your nose hairs.
If you went to college
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. Writer
2. English
3. Psych and Social work by way of English, journalism, and teaching (🤣)
4. Social Worker/therapist
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. Writer
2. English
3. Psych and Social work by way of English, journalism, and teaching (🤣)
4. Social Worker/therapist
If you went to college
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. no idea
2. Sociology
3. Changed to computer science, and then from CS to math, and added a second major in chemistry
4. Write romance novels
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. no idea
2. Sociology
3. Changed to computer science, and then from CS to math, and added a second major in chemistry
4. Write romance novels
If you went to college
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. therapist in a psychiatric inpatient setting
2. Psychology
3. Psychology, plus a minor in Gender & Women’s Studies
4. went to grad school
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. therapist in a psychiatric inpatient setting
2. Psychology
3. Psychology, plus a minor in Gender & Women’s Studies
4. went to grad school
January 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
If you went to college
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. Writer
2. English
3. Psych and Social work by way of English, journalism, and teaching (🤣)
4. Social Worker/therapist
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. Writer
2. English
3. Psych and Social work by way of English, journalism, and teaching (🤣)
4. Social Worker/therapist
I swear the past two months have me wanting to sell my house and go back to renting.
Not paying a house payment or rent is nice....until the whole house decides to break at once and your emergency fund can only cover one emergency, not five.
Not paying a house payment or rent is nice....until the whole house decides to break at once and your emergency fund can only cover one emergency, not five.
January 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I swear the past two months have me wanting to sell my house and go back to renting.
Not paying a house payment or rent is nice....until the whole house decides to break at once and your emergency fund can only cover one emergency, not five.
Not paying a house payment or rent is nice....until the whole house decides to break at once and your emergency fund can only cover one emergency, not five.
Welp, in addition to septic problems and a busted furnace we now frozen pipes (just half, not all). I am quickly reaching a state of overwhelm.
It would be nice if the universe would quit kicking us when we're down.
It would be nice if the universe would quit kicking us when we're down.
January 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Welp, in addition to septic problems and a busted furnace we now frozen pipes (just half, not all). I am quickly reaching a state of overwhelm.
It would be nice if the universe would quit kicking us when we're down.
It would be nice if the universe would quit kicking us when we're down.
At my kid's therapist's office and the background music is a playlist straight from 1998. I am not mad about listening to Duncan Sheik and the Backstreet Boys.
It's surprisingly soothing in comparison to, well, everything else.
It's surprisingly soothing in comparison to, well, everything else.
January 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
At my kid's therapist's office and the background music is a playlist straight from 1998. I am not mad about listening to Duncan Sheik and the Backstreet Boys.
It's surprisingly soothing in comparison to, well, everything else.
It's surprisingly soothing in comparison to, well, everything else.
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Happiness comes when you learn to stop expecting things and just take what you have as enough.
Anything else i could have would only add to this, anything I wished for could only ruin it. Perfect is the enemy of the languidly contented awe.
The kids breathe loudly and discordant and it's enough.
Anything else i could have would only add to this, anything I wished for could only ruin it. Perfect is the enemy of the languidly contented awe.
The kids breathe loudly and discordant and it's enough.
January 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Happiness comes when you learn to stop expecting things and just take what you have as enough.
Anything else i could have would only add to this, anything I wished for could only ruin it. Perfect is the enemy of the languidly contented awe.
The kids breathe loudly and discordant and it's enough.
Anything else i could have would only add to this, anything I wished for could only ruin it. Perfect is the enemy of the languidly contented awe.
The kids breathe loudly and discordant and it's enough.
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I hate to break it to you but Neil Gaiman is not ‘the end of the male feminist’ he’s just the latest in a long line of shitty men using ‘feminism’ as cover for their monstrosity and they’re going to keep right on doing it because they face no meaningful consequences!!
January 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I hate to break it to you but Neil Gaiman is not ‘the end of the male feminist’ he’s just the latest in a long line of shitty men using ‘feminism’ as cover for their monstrosity and they’re going to keep right on doing it because they face no meaningful consequences!!
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Saying that you want to see the south suffer/secede/that everyone there deserves bad things is a fundamentally anti-Black position. I will not be taking questions.
And a large number of those people are Black folks in the south as a result of the history of the transatlantic slave trade! The purple on the map:counties where Black folk comprise 20%- 44% of the population and the black squares mean 45% or more of the population in that county is Black.
January 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Saying that you want to see the south suffer/secede/that everyone there deserves bad things is a fundamentally anti-Black position. I will not be taking questions.
One of the super fun things about having ADHD and chronic health stuff is that I literally forget about the health stuff. So I can be cooking, about to pass out and having chest pains, convinced I'm having a heart attack...
No, bitch you just have POTS. Drink some damn electrolytes.
No, bitch you just have POTS. Drink some damn electrolytes.
January 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
One of the super fun things about having ADHD and chronic health stuff is that I literally forget about the health stuff. So I can be cooking, about to pass out and having chest pains, convinced I'm having a heart attack...
No, bitch you just have POTS. Drink some damn electrolytes.
No, bitch you just have POTS. Drink some damn electrolytes.
I took a melatonin last night night because I haven't been sleeping well due to stress.
Y'all, I slept til NOON.
Y'all, I slept til NOON.
January 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I took a melatonin last night night because I haven't been sleeping well due to stress.
Y'all, I slept til NOON.
Y'all, I slept til NOON.
I'll be in town ferrying the fam to various doc appointments so I think I'll knit up some hats and scarves this weekend to take to the local shelters.
on Monday which is MLK Day of Service i will be doing service by letting you know why miamemphis.org needs your help as the new administration comes in and, body permitting, gonna plant some things and pick up some garbage too. What is your service activity to ignore other events Monday?
miamemphis.org
January 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I'll be in town ferrying the fam to various doc appointments so I think I'll knit up some hats and scarves this weekend to take to the local shelters.
My toxic traits is being absolutely convinced that a new notebook and a new pack of pens will fix all my problems and allow me to get my life together.
January 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My toxic traits is being absolutely convinced that a new notebook and a new pack of pens will fix all my problems and allow me to get my life together.
I've been rewatching The X-Files in the late hours after everyone goes to bed while I'm up late keeping the heaters going. I'm never not going to love this show. But we don't talk about seasons 10 and 11.
January 16, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I've been rewatching The X-Files in the late hours after everyone goes to bed while I'm up late keeping the heaters going. I'm never not going to love this show. But we don't talk about seasons 10 and 11.
I made bread the other day and ever since my diet has resembled that of an 18th century French peasant: fresh bread with butter and the occasional cheese and fruit. I'm not mad about it.
January 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I made bread the other day and ever since my diet has resembled that of an 18th century French peasant: fresh bread with butter and the occasional cheese and fruit. I'm not mad about it.