Not every state. This is Texas. I’m in California and my kid went to school with shoulder length hair that was half blue. My relatives in Texas kept asking what the school was doing about it. There’s nothing on the books about hair and the principal said it looked cool. Hair has always been a control issue in bible thumping communities, which I thankfully am no longer around.

From my experience:

Gently let your husband know that if his mom says something negative that he should not pass it along to you. What his mom said did not hurt you until he told you. That’s how I taught my kid not to spread gossip.

As for your mother in law, if she comments that something is messy, hand her a broom. That’s how I got my certified-clean-freak mom to stop making comments. “Vacuum’s in the closet” was another one, but she was my mom, not my MIL, so it wasn’t as hard for me. Sooo…have your husband do it. :)

Holy shit. I had to turn it off. WTF.

I remember this! And not from the lemmy post. Thanks for the memory.

That was very thoughtful. Thank you.

Say where it is out loud! That’s my stove trick–“THE STOVE IS OFF”. Yes, I have walked away from a lit burner before.

Gold. You have found gold.

…now on Lemmy

Por que no los dos?

All the ADHDers in here. :(

Same. Same.

Hormonal fluctuations have been shown to affect symptoms. You* can talk to your doctor about a small bump up in meds for when you are most affected. I can’t remember if it’s just before a period or during that symptoms get worse. I recommend tracking your period and making notes of when it’s worse for you. Menopause is crazy for many reasons, but defo for ADHD.

*Anyone who has a period.

👍

I think you forgot what you were writing when you wrote it, lol.

I know I do.

and it has Christoph Waltz

Um, who would the shovel be for if I hang myself? Or are you being rude?

Nevermind. I saw your comment history.

So far so welcoming/supportive. 👍

I got along just fine until college when I dropped out after the first year since I couldn’t coast by with great test skills and doing basic homework for high school…

Oh hell yeah. Honors student to failing out of my first year of college. Fuck. I went back years later, but that first time was a helluva wake up call.

noticed the same day

was able to persist at a non-fun task for an hour, like lolwut

…and that’ll be in my head for the next several hours. Perfection.