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Why couldn't I have just been made normal?

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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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  • I think attitudes to being diagnosed are rather dependant on whether the individual feels that the diagnosis has been imposed on them, or whether they have actively sought a diagnosis as a means towards greater self-knowledge.

    I suspect that this makes the difference between thinking, "I have been saddled with something that I can do nothing about and I am helpless", and "That makes sense of my life and experiences and I can now chart a clearer path for myself to avoid or ameliorate certain difficulties".

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  • I think attitudes to being diagnosed are rather dependant on whether the individual feels that the diagnosis has been imposed on them, or whether they have actively sought a diagnosis as a means towards greater self-knowledge.

    I suspect that this makes the difference between thinking, "I have been saddled with something that I can do nothing about and I am helpless", and "That makes sense of my life and experiences and I can now chart a clearer path for myself to avoid or ameliorate certain difficulties".

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