I don’t think people realise how much of your personality can disappear when you don’t feel emotionally safe around someone. I become quieter. More careful with my words. Less playful, less expressive, less willing to let myself be seen. You’ll still know me. You’ll still recognize my face, hear my voice, and know the basic version of who I am. But you won’t know the version of me that comes out when I feel completely safe. The loud, silly, affectionate, unfiltered version that doesn’t have to think twice before being herself. What looks like a change in personality is simply a person becoming smaller because they no longer feel safe enough to be fully themselves.
Can someone explain why ADHD gives us the emotional wisdom of an ancient philosopher for other people's problems, but the organizational skills of a raccoon in a dumpster for our own chores?
The math is not mathing.
Them: Why didn’t you tell anyone you were struggling?
Autistic Person (me): I thought everybody went home and collapsed after performing Person all day.
We had a White House that had grandeur.
We had a Rose Garden that was beautiful.
We had a President who we could be proud of.
We had a dream of middle class prosperity.
We had a hope for a better tomorrow for our kids.
We can have it all again…
Vote Every Republican out.
i wish depression were an emergency. I wish someone could take one look at how sick I am and go “oh my god, we need to get you to a hospital!” and then when we get there I get rushed into surgery and the surgeons say “it’s a good thing you brought her here when you did, this is a seriously advanced case” and then they put me under and spend the next ten hours pulling metres of long, sticky black strands of gunk out of my body, throwing it immediately into an incinerator so that it can’t infect anyone else. And then they could stitch me back up and I could rest a few days, and when I leave the hospital everyone can see how much better I am and they congratulate me saying “well done, you’ve been so brave, I’m so glad you’re ok. I love you.