Hey friends, it's Amber.

Ever wonder why your ADHD friend says "me too" in the middle of your story? Why do they interrupt? Why are they always late, even though they swear they care?

Honestly? I've been trying to explain this for years, and it keeps coming out wrong.

So today, I'm holding the mic for my people—your fully marinated spaghetti friends—because I have something I need you to hear.

If you've ever replayed a conversation at 2 AM, wondering if you just lost a friend, if you've ever felt like you wear out your welcome, or if you love someone whose brain works differently than yours—I'm sitting here with all the feels, ready to dumptruck some insight, which is this episode, just for you.

Five things. Straight from the heart. No filter.

Let's talk about it.

0:00 - Intro: Your Fully Marinated Spaghetti Friends
1:15 - Why We Feel Like We Should Be Adults By Now
2:30 - #1: We're Not Making It About Us—We're Building a Bridge
5:45 - #2: Our Brains Are Overcrowded, Not Empty
9:20 - #3: Exhausted From Trying to Prove Our Hearts
13:10 - #4: The Tragedy Isn't That We Don't Care
16:30 - #5: We Need Both Kinds of Friends (And We're Worth Knowing)
19:45 - For People Who Wonder If Their Brains Are Compatible With Faith
22:00 - Real Life: Keys on My Bra & Sleeping on Chocolate Nights
25:15 - Grace for the Heart that is Misunderstood
27:30 - Prayer for Every Spaghetti Brain

Amber Weigand-Buckley is an Amazon #1 bestselling and multi-award-winning author, podcaster, and the founding editor and art director of the multi-award-winning Leading Hearts magazine. She's the #shortyellowpencilgirl living in a neurotypical world — navigating life with a beehive brain, a lot of sticky notes, and an unwavering belief that God wired her exactly right.

Host of #RandomDevoThoughts — where she unpacks the Jesus heart from the ADHD mind — Amber brings raw, relatable, and often hilarious insight to faith, mental health, and neurodivergent life. She's also co-host of Coffee Chat with Amber & Lisa.

Her newly released book, #SisterhoodoftheShortYellowPencils: Mental Health Mayhem, One Sticky Note at a Time, is out now — a humor-packed, gut-punch honest look at her own mental health journey that's equal parts laugh-out-loud and life-changing.

Follow her @barefacedgirl and @shortyellowpencilRX for the real, the raw, and the ridiculous.