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let's get started. Hey, everyone, Holly here, the mom psychologist who gets it. And I have a very special episode for you today. It's actually pretty personal. A little bit about my childhood and some pretty big things that have happened for me over the last few weeks. I grew up with labels. Lazy, weird, bad,

messy, stupid, absent-minded, annoying, and there are lots more where that comes from. I thought it

would make the most sense to describe what it was like in different

age ranges to get a better idea of my experience. In elementary school, I got in trouble for

asking the teacher to repeat instructions. I was often accused of cheating when I'd look at other students' papers,

but I wasn't cheating at all. I was just trying to figure out what I was supposed to be doing.

I remember feeling really jealous of other girls that had pretty fingernails that they painted

and they could grow them long and I just

couldn't. I was always biting them and any time I put nail polish on, I would take it off.

My brain was always really busy. I was always thinking of different things all of the time,

like inventions and I was always singing of different things all of the time, like inventions and I was always

singing in my head and sometimes outside my head when I didn't realize it. I'd create dance moves

and make forts in my head and replay conversations over and over again, how it actually went, how I wish it went. My brain was always

busy thinking about things that I wasn't supposed to be thinking about at those times.

It was like it was busy, but at the wrong times. I had trouble making friendships and I was often left out. I'd say random things and get

strange looks from other people. Sometimes I'd even overshare, which I think people weren't

sure what to do with. I struggled with interrupting because my brain was so fast and I was worried that

if I didn't say what I was thinking right in that moment, that I'd forget it because that

happened a lot. But I can see how this was misinterpreted by other people as rude or that I didn't

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