How I Came to See It
Several years ago, a mentor who worked in special education told me I showed classic signs of ADHD. At the time, I was explaining how hard decision-making was for me—every choice, big or small, carried the same weight. Life felt like a buffet of all my favorite foods: exciting, but completely overwhelming.
I was the child who loved choose your own ending books but couldn’t commit to just one path, so I read them all. Over time, I’ve learned that fewer choices work better for me: limited menus, smaller spaces, less stuff, broken-down tasks, and never starting my day without a written list.
Why I’m Writing This
ADHD has real challenges, but it also has beauty. Even without a formal diagnosis, understanding my neurodivergence has helped me replace shame with grace. I’m not stupid—I’m different.
This space exists to document that difference: what helps, what overwhelms me, what I’m learning, and how I’m slowly letting go of the belief that I must function like everyone else.
What you might find here:
- Overstimulation, burnout, and coping
- Faith, creativity, and neurodivergence
- Systems that help (and ones that don’t)
- Shame, grace, and self-acceptance
- The journey toward diagnosis—when I finally make that appointment
- personal stories struggles questions and how life interacts with the ADHD brain
This is not a how-to or a polished success story. It’s a record of learning, unlearning, and becoming—one post at a time.
The Mind Wanders | Kim Blenkhorn
For someone with ADHD having to conform to what works for the average neurotypical brain can feel frustrating and excruciating. When my body is still, my mind tends to wander aimlessly. If I am asked to sit quietly in church, be still, and simply listen, I often struggle to focus— My leg starts going, I…
Deep Roots | Kim Blenkhorn
How fragile is my relationship with God or rather my faith? Today I was reading about plants. I asked Google, “What happens to a 40-year-old plant?” I thought that if I could understand how plants grow, maybe I could understand something about my own spiritual state of existence. The article said ‘plants at forty years…
ADHD and Neurodiversity: A Different Way of Thinking About Differences
Perhaps my children and family members don’t understand my need to write. When we argue, I send long text threads — pages of information, systematic logic, emotion carefully laid out in paragraphs. When my son was pledging a fraternity, I texted him daily with my fears and concerns. One day he replied,“Mom, it’s overwhelming and…
Expectation – ADHD Burnout
My nervous system is about to crack. I feel a deep, aching longing to be alone. Not in a dramatic way. Not to disappear.Just to hide away for a while.To close my door and lock it.To shut off my phone. I want to turn down the noise—the constant hum of to-do lists and shaming and…
The Quicksand – ADHD Burnout
Okay. Let me try again.I can do this. That’s always how it starts. A breath in. A small resolve. The familiar tightening in my chest that says focus, try harder, get it together. For a moment, or a day, or a week…I believe it. I line things up in my head: the tasks, the expectations,…
ADHD and Exercise
I spent most of my life convinced that exercise simply wasn’t for me. As a kid, I hated gym class with a passion. I forgot my gym clothes constantly, was physically weak, uncoordinated, and exhausted almost immediately by anything involving running, jumping, or teamwork. I wasn’t athletic, didn’t play sports, avoided physical activity outside of…
What is ADHD?
I’m hesitant to write this because there is already so much information available at the push of a button. But to begin properly, I need some sense of order and definition—even if only for myself. A good place to start is with a, general understanding of what ADHD actually is. This is what I know…
My Faith Place 