Abby Days

1. You have ADHD so some of this is going to really suck. Ha. No, but really.  ADHD is super underdiagnosed in girls, despite being just as present. I wasn't the best at school. Despite being in the gifted programs and my senior year English teacher asking me "What do you mean you don't take any medication?" it never really surfaced that my school-related issues were rooted in a cognitive learning disorder. I wish it had. Getting a diagnosis and helpful medication was the best thing that truly ever happened to my education. 2. Sometimes you'll have to sit alone in the lunch hall & it doesn't mean there's something wrong with you. My freshman year of college was great because I actually had the opportunity to experience it with my best friend of 18 (now 23) years. When she left, I realized that I was really bad at making friends in college. Everyone is so busy, and their friend groups are pretty much already established. You have to learn to enjoy your

  Hi, hello. I've always been bad at ice-breakers. Being someone who enjoys creative writing, one might assume that I would be naturally good at blog introductions. I hope you are pleasantly surprised by life's unbounded ability to disappoint you. (Sometimes.) My name is Abby, always has been. I'm an English Major at Tarleton State University, I get scared of seeing people I know in the grocery store, and am still holding out for the invention of time travel. Not in a sci-fi nerd way, but in a: "I am burdened with many regrets that I wish to undo" sort of way.  As a get-to-know-me, let's play Two Truths and a Lie: 1. I have a dog named Luke Skywalker. 2. My favorite color is orange. 3. Once on my way back from Budapest I was randomly selected to be searched inside a German airport where I was then forced to perform a song on my ukulele for the German airport police and security team. Maybe that's not fair to include such an obvious lie... I would never nam