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I get excited about something, hyperfixate, and mold my life to fit my new obsession. I think I’m good, this one is different, that I’ll be able to maintain the interest, and then one day, I wake up and it’s . . . gone.
ADHD will do that to you: a constant cycle of excited hyperfixation and the sudden drop as soon as that hit of dopamine is gone.
Then she tugs at the yellow plastic protective wrapping on the candy in her hand, revealing a chili-coated mango lollipop and putting it in her mouth, despite the early hour. She once begged me to try one, telling me they were a nostalgic snack her grandmother used to but down the street in her town in Mexico and bring her as a child,
“It fills a room. It’s magical. I could have the absolute worst day of my life, hear her laughing at her desk, and instantly feel better. If laughter is medicine, Katrina’s is my cure.”