The Neurospice of Mind

HAITIAN GIRLS & ADHD · OUR STORIES

Growing up, figuring it out, finding language.

A home for first-person stories about ADHD, identity, school, confidence, family, culture, diagnosis, masking, adulthood and the long process of understanding your own brain.

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THE ARCHIVE

Our stories.

PERSONAL ESSAY · JENNY FLORE

My Journey as a Neurospicy Girlie

How a lifetime of looking capable, struggling quietly, and searching for better answers eventually led me to ADHD and a new way of understanding my story.

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STORIES WE WANT TO MAKE ROOM FOR

ChildhoodFamily & cultureSchoolDiagnosisMaskingAdulthoodParent perspectivesFinding support

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Your story belongs here, too.

Haitian girls and women can experience ADHD in ways shaped by family, culture, school, expectations, migration, language and identity. Subscriber submissions will help this archive hold more than one version of that experience.

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How submissions will work

  • Who: Adult subscribers sharing their own lived experience, plus parents or caregivers writing from their own perspective.
  • Name options: Full name, first name only, initials or anonymous.
  • Editorial review: Submissions may be lightly edited for clarity, length and privacy. Publication is not guaranteed.
  • Ownership: Writers keep ownership of their work while granting permission for an accepted story to appear on Haitian Girls & ADHD.
  • Privacy: Please avoid identifying details about children or other people who have not consented to being included.

Submissions are now open. Contributors must be 18 or older. Please submit only your own lived experience or, if writing as a parent/caregiver, your own perspective.

There is power in finally having words for it.

Stories • Culture • Identity • Understanding