Literally just romanticize your own life. What’s stopping you. Who will care. Commit to enjoying things.
“Something wants to be said but the words don’t agree.”— Tomas Tranströmer, from “Baltics,” New Collected Poems: Dikter och prosa 1954-2004 (Bloodaxe Books, 2015)
you know whats bs? the fact that many disorders are only diagnosed if theyre “a significant hindrance to your functioning” except, neurodivergent people are literally forced to “function” in a world made for neurotypical people, so how can you even tell what impairs our function when we’ve been forced since birth to act as though we’re functioning perfectly fine and to push ourselves to unhealthy limits to do so
they figure that if we can fake our way through it, it’s the same as not being disabled at all. they don’t care about the pain inside a person as long as that person can be productive.
“High functioning” just means you’re really good at pretending to be neurotypical.
