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The Good Girl's Guide to masking

What happens when being 'good' becomes a performance.

Jun 4 • Ella Thompson

Good Girls don't get diagnosed

Should've been a disruptive little boy.

Apr 6 • Ella Thompson

The neurodivergent urge to make a list (and then 14 more)

If you have ADHD and 100 unfinished lists, this is for you. On executive dysfunction, neurodivergent brains, and why the lists you never finish aren't…

Jun 18 • Ella Thompson

I'm the girlfriend the horror movie warned you about

I'd been horrified by myself for years. Seeing him not be was worse.

Jun 15 • Ella Thompson

Stop calling me high-functioning

On being too broken to belong and too functional to be helped.

Jun 11 • Ella Thompson

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I don't look sick anymore

and no one wants to talk about this part.

Jun 8 • Ella Thompson

I want to fuck a priest

Because connection feels safer when it can’t be reciprocated.

Jun 1 • Ella Thompson

I RSVP'd no to your hen do and I meant it.

On being a neurodivergent no-show in a world that celebrates yes, and the invisible negotiations behind every no

May 28 • Ella Thompson

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Giving life another go, but this time: No eating disorder. No masking the AUDHD. No self destructive and harming behaviours. And, above all, not a single clue.

Ella Thompson

Giving life another go, but this time: No eating disorder. No masking the AUDHD. No self destructive and harming behaviours. And, above all, not a single clue.

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