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Neurodivergent 1w
There has to be a threshold for how many minor inconveniences a person can handle. Like I can’t be *this* bad at just. Coping with every day life. Surely this is a disproportionate amount that anyone would struggle to get by with
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Anonymous 1w

Oh my fucking god this is me. Like even by adhd standards I’m medicated I’ve known since I was in middle school, how am I still screwing shit up I can see the improvement and I’m genuinely gwtting better but is life meant to be this hard, I feel so close to a statistic…

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Pretty sure I’m also autistic but just. The hell I had to go through to even get an appointment for my adhd screening makes me not want to even bother getting an official diagnosis cause like? I know I have to accommodate myself and the officials ones I get for that arent very different from what I already do with an adhd diagnosis. Anyway my distress tolerance is in shambles lol

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

WAIT SAME- I’m comfortable being peer reviewed and not having an official autism diagnosis- I think what is weird is that, while I know ‘low functioning’ people, Igs weird understanding how shit I am at normal ppl stuff, even compared to my autistic friends who are doing everything

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I mean yeah I’m like. Part of it is working in therapy to build of like, tolerance for it. But also you can be overlooked for earlier diagnosis without being high functioning. The assumption a lot of people make is that if you’ve been able to look into it and you haven’t been caught, then you must have lower support needs. You can even be high masking without being low-support-needs.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Me personally - as I evaluate masking in myself and the other factors that I’ve dealt with, im starting to think that like, maybe I need a more structured support system than I’ve had maybe ever? Idk how I’d go about getting that though, I don’t really have a social support system now anyway. I think like. Oh this might actually be more profound, that the reason I was missed was bc of other factors like neglect rather than it just not being obvious

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