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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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  • in reply to Cerecrever

    Yes, things not going as planned can cause difficulties for Autistic people. Our brains work very hard just to process the normal things happening around us. When things happen that have not been predicted, those extra demands can overwhelm our brains and cause acute stress. We can react in many and varied ways to that stress. For example, we might: lose our ability to function effectively, lose our ability to speak, shutdown, meltdown, become irritable, shout in anger, withdraw, etc.

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