Monday, January 17, 2011

another bloggage update. huzzah!

I looked through a couple blog posts that are about the same topic. In the first one, she is talking about how she is running out of ADHD medication and needs more, but is too lazy/doesn't know how to get more.
I've noticed that the titles of her blogs are really important. The first one that I mentioned is called 'Don't Stand in Front of My Flamethrower, it is Very Powerful.' I mean, come on. Don't say that doesn't interest you at all. Well, it certainly did me. The post following this one up was called 'Hi. I'm energetic today!!!!' Those exclamation points say something.
As someone who does not have ADHD, I can't know if she's being totally literal when she says things like:
"I will take my last pill and, upon observing the empty bottle before me, I will panic and try to figure out what I have to do to get more medication but alas, the process is too complicated and there are lots of phone calls involved and I will give up half-way through because I have ADf***ingHD and it is getting worse by the second since I procrastinated on my responsibilities and was thus forced to go straight from being massively medicated to being completely unmedicated within the span of a few hours and that is not ever a good idea and I will probably die.  

The worst part?  All that stuff up until the part where I die?  That is me WHILE I AM TAKING MY ADHD MEDICATION.  Yes, I am that dysfunctional even while heavily medicated."
Except the part with the death, I'm not sure what to believe. Yes, I'm very gullible, but still. Anyway, since she's usually very not-literal and joking, it's hard to be able to tell what is true or not.

On a different blog post, the most recent one was titled 'The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas'. Like I said about titles previously, don't tell me that isn't funny even though you have no idea what she's talking about yet. This blog post was particularly hilarious, I think, because of perspective. Here, she's writing about a childhood experience she had on a Christmas. She is writing about when she was six years old, now 25 or so. This is emphasized due to her seriousness then and, if you read the post (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/12/year-kenny-loggins-ruined-christmas.html), you'll see what I mean when I say that it's maturing humor. Like you wouldn't understand it as a kid. Or, at least I wouldn't, and Ms. Brosch clearly didn't.

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