Published November 5, 2025

Have you ever heard a new-to-you term and learned what it means and thought, “This sounds like me”? Yeah, me too. All the time.

One such term is “justice sensitivity.”

There’s a lot online about it, especially about its connection to ADHD and other neurodivergence.

Whatever my version of it, I’ve got a lot of it.

Be what you say you are. Do what you say you do. Stand for what you say you stand for. Walk your talk. If you are a church or a company or a government or a Tuesday lunch special, live up to how you bill yourself.

I learned pretty early in adulthood that this world and its loudest people and institutions routinely fail to be what they claim to be. We’re all human (I think), and failure is a part of the human condition. But if there’s no soul-searching, no accountability, no admission of guilt, and not even a willingness to have an honest conversation, I’m gonna walk away.

Whatever my version of “justice sensitivity,” I’ve felt it in my bones for as long as I can remember. And now that I know it has a name, or an approximation of a name, I’m learning more about it, including where I might diverge from the standard definitions.

But it’s wrong, you may have heard me say in my naive voice.

It’s just not right.

This late in life, I’m not going to change. And I’m fairly sure the world isn’t going to change.

What’s wrong is wrong, though, so don’t expect me to keep quiet. A lot of people taught me that, along with a lot of books and movies and plays and poems, and they never came back to me and said to turn off that switch. I’m literal, except when I’m not.

Hat tip to Annalee for posting more about this than I should share here now. But I have their permission to share a little:

(yes, those are scare quotes: “justice sensitivity” is how psychologists spell “justified anger” when ADHD and Autistic people have it).

— Annalee (@flowerhorne.com) April 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM

The emotion didn’t change.

What changed was my rhetoric, writing skill, and ability to show my work in deductive reasoning so that my empathy looks intelligent and logical instead of getting written off as irrational anger.

— Annalee (@flowerhorne.com) April 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM

I’m still working on my ratio of rhetoric, writing skill and intelligent, logical empathy to a mushroom cloud of perceived irrational anger.

This is it for a while

I don’t know when I’ll post again. The world is still a scary place for me, and there are many challenges ahead.

Sending love. Protect your peace, but remember: If you want peace, work for justice.

♥

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