“Sorry I’m late, Mom. I lost track of time.”
For a long time, I didn’t fully understand what that meant.
I saw the struggles—being late, forgetting things, feeling overwhelmed—but I thought they were habits that needed to be fixed.
So I did what many parents do.
I tried to create structure:
Calendars
Color-coded systems
Reminders, alarms, routines
And still… nothing seemed to work.
Because it wasn’t about effort.
It was about understanding.