My goal for 2025, regarding the Galaxy Girl Coffee website, is to write a blog post every week, along with cleaning up the website and making it more user friendly.
In that vein, I wrote a blog post over the last two days, and when I got done, I realized that it wasn’t the post I needed to make. So here we are starting over.
Moving forward, the plan is to write a post about coffee beans, a post about coffee drinks, and a post about being an Autistic and ADHD small business owner. These will be on a rotating basis, though there may be times when we get two drink posts or bean posts back-to-back.
As a late diagnosis AuDHD person, I feel like there is a need to spread awareness, understanding, and compassion about the struggles individuals with AuDHD have, which is why I am working to write posts about my experiences.
My whole life, I was regularly talked about as being annoying, a know it all, and obnoxious. I talked a lot and I remember saying “I know” a lot when I was a teenager. This bugged a lot of people. I also almost always had the answers in school, never had to study, and aced tests left and right. I wasn’t in any gifted programs and struggled with finishing high school due to my inability to complete homework, which is why I didn’t go to college right after high school.
I know that my brain is always ‘on’. I’m always thinking and problem solving, unless I am able to distract myself with ‘entertainment’. This is the reason I talk too much. I overshare. I infodump. Because I’m a small business owner, I don’t have the luxury of distracting myself with my most relaxing forms of entertainment, as my ADHD will cause me to hyperfocus on it, and I’ll lose time. Massive amounts of time. This also means I haven’t had a chance to truly relax since I got a brick-and-mortar location in Nov ’22.
This problem is not unique to me. If you start learning about ADHD or Autism, you will see that this is one of our biggest problems/strengths. When we care, we care too much. When we work, we work too much. When we relax, truly relax, we can lose days.
If you know of any other ADHD, Autistic, or AuDHD people that you either work with, socialize with, or are business owners, please keep this in mind. Please show compassion. We want people to like us, just like everyone else, we just struggle with social norms because we are wired differently.