Someday the person may have the ‘aha… fuck’ moment and think back to you. I’m so sorry you’re having to deal with it. I’m ADHD only diagnosed about 5 years ago but my work’s CEO is basically 15 years older, SUPER undiagnosed, and has money/power/sycophants so he will never truly ‘deal’ with any of it, even as he may be actively ruining his company and his behavior is causing the best people to quit. The defense mechanisms go deep. We can’t force introspection unfortunately…

God death penalty is already bleak but this is so strange to me — I have hard-to-find veins, so nearly every blood draw of my life has excruciating. (Good phlebotomists with butterfly needles are so rare and special!) But I never thought about that happening when you are also bracing for death… and then it being halted, to be continued… months/years later?! Like what