During her week of PMDD, she shares what it’s like to have the mood swings and sensory sensitivities of PMDD with the inability to focus of ADHD. Living within the struggles of not wanting to “clean her room but wanting to come back to a clean room,” her PMDD contradicts everything her ADHD tells her not to do. It’s much harder for her to have conversations about her queerness because she has so much that she wants to talk about, but if the person listening says something that irritates or offends, she becomes overly sensitive to the comment. Becoming defensive, she later feels badly for her combativeness. Her comfort comes with her father, who is supporting her queerness and learning along with her how do deal with his own neurodivergence.

This episode was made possible thanks to our partnership with the Missing Voices Project. Based out of Flagler College, the Missing Voices Project believes that amplifying the voices of young people and their adult allies who live and serve in ministry at the intersections of disability, foster care & trauma, gender & sexuality, and racial reconciliation is necessary and holy work. We are grateful to Missing Voices Project for their support and for the bravery of these campers as they share about life at the intersection of queerness and disability. For more information about the Missing Voices Project, please visit www.missingvoices.org

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