To the “everyone is Autistic or ADHD now” crowd:
When the whole world stopped in 2020, and everyone was mandated to stay in their homes, every burnt out, high-masking autistic person got to finally drop the lifelong masks and just be themselves for months.
And when social distancing policies started dropping and we got back to “normal,” it was impossible for those people to simply pick those lifelong masks back up as we dropped them, shattered them.
Just sit with that.
I can't finish 90% of things I start I can't hold a positive habit I can barely keep up with hygiene I procrastinatinate things I enjoy doing and I procrastinate things I don't even more. I can't remember basic things I struggle with studying severely and my head is NEVER quiet.
i don't know if i want someone to understand me or just leave me alone. sometimes i can't even understand myself, so how am i supposed to explain myself to someone else?
it genuinely makes me sick anytime I think really hard about the life I’ve missed out on. how my entire life is forever warped by a disability I didn’t choose to have. every other minority group is at least the same as others on the inside. I’m not. my very being is alien