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Found out that mentally I’m at the age 16, yes real doctors/psychologists came to this conclusion. I’m physically 22. Makes sense why I struggled so hard socially. Ive always been mentally behind and even went through college with an altered mental state
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I truly don’t know what to do with this information because for one the doctors think it’s around 16 that my brain is functioning at, they don’t know 100% for sure if that’s the age. But like, obviously I can’t just act like a teenager for another four years, but I just don’t know what to do with this information now and I’m scared to tell the few friends I have.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

It also makes sense why I’ve struggled a lot in classes. Don’t get me wrong. I would get good grades, but I felt like I had to work way harder than everyone else to grasp concepts that seemed so easy to them. I guess it also doesn’t help that I was very recently diagnosed with ADHD as well. I wish my family let me start therapy sooner so we would’ve known…

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