I Came Out of the Pandemic a Middle-Aged Woman

Here’s a thing that’s made this season of life a little less painful.

When my family went into lockdown in March of 2020, I did not consider myself old. In fact, most days, I still felt like a teenager pretending to be an adult. That probably had something to do with my ADHD, but also, I had a newborn! Old women who aren’t rich and don’t live in LA or New York don’t have newborns… right? And sure, that pregnancy (my secon…