AUTISTIC/ADHD people grew up thinking they were βtoo much.β
-Too intense.
-Too loud.
-Too curious.
-Too sensitive.
-Too honest.
So we learned to shrink.
To mask.
To scan every room before we spoke.
And now weβre adults still apologizing for taking up space in our own lives.
But hereβs the part nobody said clearly enough:
You werenβt too much.
You were just never met where you were safe to be fully yourself.
Tag someone who needs to hear this today π€
"Do you have a significant other?"
"Not in the widely understood definition of that term."
Scully is so much more significant to him than most could ever understand π
Being neurodivergent is realizing not everyone spends half their day negotiating with their own brain. Apparently some people just decide to do things and then do them.
Suspicious.