“There is an almost unconscious cruelty in women who have adapted too well. They demand that others suffer as they did, to prove it was all worth something.”
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Every skill you don't use, your brain slowly unlearns to save energy. It assumes anything unused is unimportant. This is why things you learn but don’t practice eventually fade away. Your brain recycled it because you stopped proving you needed it.
ADHD is solving a
stranger's highly complex problem in 4 minutes while your own car registration has been expired for 8 months and you have actively thought about renewing it every single day. we are world-class at other people. we are not designed for ourselves.
One of the clearest signs of HIGH INTELLIGENCE is having no desire to be seen, admired, or understood by people, at peace with being misunderstood, and incredibly skilled at the art of letting go.
I just learned that if you are neurodivergent, the best way to get respect out of neurotypicals is by being aggressive and mean because they perceive those type of people as high value & kindness as low value. Whereas neurodivergent people view kindness and empathy as high value and aggression as low value.
@TheWatchmanHQ@Theholisticpsyc control is control at end of day, anger is direct atleast u know (still make us doubt our self worth), subtle manipulative tactics(covert) is next level
Person: “You’re too trusting.”
Autistic person: “No… I just believed people meant what they said.”
Person: “Most people don’t work like that.”
Autistic person: “Ah. That explains a lot of the confusion.”
A lot of childhood trauma don’t hit you until you become an adult and realize certain things were never normal. You start remembering what you had to survive, how young you actually were, and how everybody praised you for being “mature” when really you were just a child forced to understand too much. Y’all ain’t ready for that conversation though.
Too many people have an argument with a sibling, a parent, a friend, and they burn the bridge out of anger; then the years pass, they get busy, the other person gets old, and they realize during a moment of mental clarity that they actually wish they could argue with that person one more time, and let them win this time, but it's too late, and that person isn't coming back.
There are three stages of maturity:
First, we blame others.
Then, we blame ourselves.
Finally, we realise blame solves nothing.
The day we stop looking for someone to blame is perhaps the day we truly grow up.
According to psychology, the way you fight with your partner is often a reflection of how you learned to handle conflict as a child. If you shut down, you may have learned early on that your voice did not matter. If you explode, you may have learned that anger was the only way to be heard. If you apologize too quickly, you may have learned that peace was more important than your truth. These patterns are not weaknesses, they are survival strategies, they kept you safe when you were young, but they may be destroying your relationships now, and healing means unlearning the strategies that no longer serve you, learning to communicate not from fear, but from clarity, staying present when every instinct tells you to run or fight, that is the work, and it is the most important work you will ever do.