After Obedience: When Freedom Doesn’t Feel Like Freedom

After Obedience: When Freedom Doesn’t Feel Like Freedom

Predicting the Crash

A skill we had to learn after obedience

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Brittney Walker, ExMo ADHD
Mar 16, 2026
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Friday looked like an easy day.

Nothing heavy on the calendar. A few conversations with friends. Some normal life logistics.

And yet by the end of the day my nervous system tipped into migraine territory.

The signals were there earlier.

They usually are.

A lot of neurodivergent adults eventually develop a specific skill:

predicting the crash.

A little more fri…

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