with Heather Brogden

This month, PATTERN has highlighted focus which naturally brings stories and experiences of those who have taken their ADHD/neurodivergence by the reins. We want to demonstrate that this is not a topic that needs, or benefits from, tip-toeing–and that it is precisely that: a topic, not a problem. Let’s get real here for a second. ADHD, undiagnosed and untreated, is nothing to be glorified.

If you stop by on any random Tuesday or Thursday, you’ll find the PATTERN office filled with people. Staff, creative fellows, seasonal interns, and an assortment of visitors all humming away at whatever projects are at hand. If you stop by on any of the other workdays, odds are good that you’ll just run into me. While I love the occasional WFH, my heart has always belonged to a team. Even when they’re not physically here, I can still feel that collective buzz.

Meg and I met in second grade. Outside of my own family, there is no human in my life today who I have known for as long as I have known Meg. And for as long as I have known Meg, I’ve thought of her style as something like the embodiment of a box of only the best crayon colors dressed from head to toe in patterns, layers, and bigass jewelry and hair accessories.