The internet has a universal answer to “what gun should I carry?” and that answer is wrong for most of the people asking it. The right question isn’t what gun, it’s what fits, and that’s a much harder thing to figure out.

Flash was a sixteen-year-old Miniature Dachshund who got put down on December 22, 2025, and Oakley is a five-year-old German Shepherd who is a completely different animal in every sense of the word. Neither one of them is a replacement for the other, and that’s not a problem to solve.

Boredom was never the enemy. For most of human history, idle time quietly powered memory consolidation, creative insight, and empathy through the brain’s default mode network. Smartphones and algorithmic feeds have colonized those cognitive gaps, training our brains away from depth and sustained thought. Frank argues we didn’t fix boredom — we amputated it, and we’re only beginning to feel what’s gone.

Daniel Tammet can recite pi to 22,514 decimal places but spent years unable to make a phone call without his hands shaking.

After nearly 17 years in enterprise IT, the technology has never been the hard part. The hard part is the stuff that doesn’t show up in any ticket queue.

Anxiety is significantly more common among autistic and ADHD adults than in the general population, with estimates ranging from roughly 20% to over 50% depending on study design. However, standard…

A 1973 Caprice with bubbling paint and a cracked dash just ran a 10-second quarter mile, and the guy in the $80,000 resto-mod is still in the staging lanes.

Growing up as a Gen-X latchkey kid on Lakeside Drive in Milledgeville, Georgia meant coming home to empty houses, cooking dinner at eleven, and figuring everything out alone. Frank reflects honestly on how that unsupervised childhood built real capability, resilience, and problem-solving instincts while also leaving lasting wounds around emotional regulation, isolation, and decades of undiagnosed AuDHD.

Somewhere along the way, the performance became the person. Or at least, that’s what I thought. The scariest part of the AuDHD diagnosis wasn’t what it explained, it was what it revealed about how thoroughly I’d hidden the evidence, even from myself.

At 55, Frank receives an AuDHD diagnosis that reframes decades of academic failure, sensory overwhelm, and social exhaustion he had blamed on laziness and poor character. From six quarters of academic exclusion to a 28-year self-taught IT career built on hyperfocus, he traces what working three times as hard as everyone else actually looked like, and what it means to finally have a name for it.