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Why couldn't I have just been made normal?

FUB39

Anybody else just really effing angry? Like, I never asked for this. I hate it. Autism and ADHD together? Oh, lucky me... not. 

I'm recently diagnosed and up until this point, I've spent years thinking I struggled with my mental health and that I could try therapies and medication to treat it and make myself better. To find out that the majority of this is actually Autism and ADHD and there's not a damn thing I can do to make them go away, is honestly just soul-destroying. I hate it. I hate what it's made me. It's the absolute worst thing aout me and it's ruining my life. 

Anybody else just wish they could have been made normal?

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  • Our condition is what it is. Nothing can change that. That can be hard to accept when many of us have spent a lifetime trying so hard to be "normal"—and usually failing. To quote The Shawshank Redemption (1994), we can either "Get busy living or get busy dying." We can either embrace our difference and find a way to live authentically and with joy, or we can let our challenges define us and feel forever inferior to those around is.

    That's the sort of pep talk I give myself a few times a week! Because, yes, it can be hard to put one foot in front of the other, some days. On other days I wonder just how dull and boring it would be to be "normal". Wink

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  • Our condition is what it is. Nothing can change that. That can be hard to accept when many of us have spent a lifetime trying so hard to be "normal"—and usually failing. To quote The Shawshank Redemption (1994), we can either "Get busy living or get busy dying." We can either embrace our difference and find a way to live authentically and with joy, or we can let our challenges define us and feel forever inferior to those around is.

    That's the sort of pep talk I give myself a few times a week! Because, yes, it can be hard to put one foot in front of the other, some days. On other days I wonder just how dull and boring it would be to be "normal". Wink

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