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Brittney Walker, ExMo ADHD
Aug 12, 2025
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"We're worried about you."

These four words, delivered with cocked heads and gentle voices, became one of the most dangerous phrases in my vocabulary. Not because the concern wasn't real, but because it was weaponized against my neurodivergent brain in ways I'm only now beginning to understand.

As someone who left the Mormon church after four decades of m…

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