A. Westgate (she/they)
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A. Westgate (she/they)
@awilderwestgate.bsky.social
queer, AuDHD, chronically ill | poet & artist | hopeful romantic | expert crier | part-time creator | full-time dreamer | perpetual tryer | Hobbit aspirer | https://linktr.ee/TheWilderNest
If this sounds like you, I shared some resources I've found recently and things that are working for me (as a chronically ill AuDHDer) to help trim the excess from my life:

open.substack.com/pub/writingw...
Trimming the excess
A messy middle post about working to create a right-sized life.
open.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"There is just TOO MUCH ALL OF THE TIME and I am not equipped to handle it all. I think no one is, really, but I am certainly among those with a smaller window of tolerance. I’ll never be a minimalist, but I need as much calm and coziness as possible in order to be genuinely well."
March 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
No gods, no masters, no scope for the imagination
February 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I share my writing (poetry, personal essays, and monthly roundups with mundane magics and little blurbs about books I've read, etc) at writingwilder.substack.com
Writing Wilder | A. Wilder Westgate | Substack
Poems and personal essays by a queer, neurodivergent, chronically ill parent hoping for a gentler world. Click to read Writing Wilder, by A. Wilder Westgate, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years a...
writingwilder.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM