And AFABs with ADHD are more likely to start perimenopause earlier than AFABs without ADHD. Love that for us, right?

And BDILH tour visuals are FULL of religious imagery.

She's AMAZING. She's seeing my entire family, 4 year old Max included, for various neurospicy stuff. And she actually listens to us. And she's a member of the alphabet Mafia. Lol.

I really want to tell her all about Gaylor, but I don't want to scare her. 🤣

And PMDD can be comorbid with ADHD! and she wants her to potentially be put on a birth control to treat it ASAP before it can undo all the work we've done to treat the mental health stuff. Y'all, I love this psych.

So, alice's psychiatrist is also my psychiatrist & she's now watching Alice for signs of PMDD based on what she's learned about ME growing up, & has suggested that as soon as she starts her cycle, Alice starts seeing an adolescent gyno bc she's already in treatment for depression & anxiety & ADHD 1/

What's so funny about that, for me, is that I was on Adderall all through childhood and stopped at 18. I just started again in November at 40 and omg my brain is working. But I'M in control of the dose with my psychiatrist, not my mother, so I'm not being over medicated.

Quote from Dan Savage "During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for. It didn't look like we were going to win then and we did. It doesn't feel like we're going to win now but we could. Keep fighting, keep dancing."

So, every time she says please take me dancing, this is all I can think about. This quote from Dan Savage.

EXACTLY! Instead, we got ChatGPT and whatever the hell Elon is doing with his shit.

I grew up on the ideas of the Jetsons, the 80s robots, and the SmartHouse. I feel cheated and I want what I was promised. 🤣🤣🤣

I really just want an AI personal assistant that helps me organize & manage my life without destroying the planet. Because my AuDHD brain can't manage time, & if I try to search the Internet myself I get distracted, & I can't remember what's in my fridge and pantry. 🤣🤣 I just want my 80s robot.

PLEASE do.

I want someone to build an ethical AI that runs on waste water and purifies it, learns from collaboration and consensual input, and aims to help society and make us better (like a robot personal assistant) instead of making us worse. It's a pipe dream, but I have hope for someday.

I think you should at least have a plan of where you're heading next or some landing plan before you leap. The economy sucks and I don't want you to end up unemployed for almost a year like my husband in 2024 when he lost his job.

So, I'm prefacing this with DO NOT BUY ANYMORE COOKIES UNTIL AFTER SHE HITS HER GOAL BECAUSE WE NEED TO CLEAR MY GARAGE.

But...

Alice is 101 boxes from her goal! With enough boxes of cookies in my garage to get her to like 1900 because she has 4 booths this weekend.

That's disgusting. I hope you fired that doctor and complained. But I also understand if you didn't because that's hard to do. 💙

Wait. Your gut was messed up from the peri? So all this stomach stuff I'm dealing with might not be the bipolar meds?

Wait. Do you have the tingling in your fingertips and toes? And in random spots in your body?

...excuse me? THATS WHY MY NECK HURTS??? 😭

I THOUGHT I SLEPT WRONG

And I don't have the heart to tell her that Officer Lori told me tonight that she doesn't think Eddie is going to keep working to his 12th birthday. He's going to be retiring by then. I told Lori that the community will be throwing him the biggest retirement party ever.

Alice has been terrified of dogs for the majority of her life. Except Eddie. He's on the PD here & he goes out & helps teach dog safety to kids. He goes to school & community events, camps, etc. EVERYONE knows him and his handler. And he's just the only dog she's ever loved on and trusted.

Alice and Eddie age 4

Alice and Eddie age 11.

Y'all wanna see a cute before and after of Alice and the only dog she's ever liked? This is Alice at age 4.5 at a birthday party for Eddie The Police Dog, who was turning 4. And tonight, Eddie came to see her at her cookie booth to celebrate his 11th birthday. They've grown up together.

Zac Hanson. Yep.

The line that I keep coming back to that I think is *so* NR coded is "Cages or wings, which to prefer...Ask the birds". With the number of times we've seen cages in Taylor's works... And wings. And then that damn orange bird in the Ophelia video? It's something.

PERFECT!! Thank you!!

I don't think I was confused then, but I think it explains so much now.

OMFG. You're right.

Not 🍃, still following along! This is really good!

So... Idk if it's something or nothing but Aurelia means "the golden one" or "gilded" in Latin. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I know we like to track the times gold pops up in the taylorverse. Lol

She's a riot. I've had to tell her to watch what she says around other kids when she talks about Taylor Swift because not all kids understand what she understands 🤣 and one time she started an argument by trying to explain what a PR relationship was... To a group of 9/10 year olds... 😅😅 Oops.

I just read all this to Alice and she was all in, 100% on board. She sees the connections too. My thoughts on the theories is that if you can get her on board, they're solid.