Some people in your life have never seen you at your full capacity. They met you in a hard season, a transitional moment, a version of you still being built. Do not let their limited experience of you become your ceiling. You are more than the chapter they witnessed.
The ultimate neurodivergent loop: needing alone time because your senses are fried, but desperately wanting company because you feel profoundly lonely. Both feelings happening simultaneously. Constantly.
Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity andhappiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.
If your parents overprotected you, helicoptered you, refused to teach you life skills, and forced you down the path they wanted, they abused you. Don’t let them gaslight you into believing there’s something wrong with you, or that you were “coddled” or “had it too easy” as a kid.
getting home from a social situation and feeling a sort of aching loneliness and lingering resignation that despite being surrounded by all these people i do not belong
i love meeting people who drop the craziest lore completely casually. there are some people who feel like they’ve already lived 10 lives, who have somehow speedrun a dense and varied set of experiences into a richer, more self-possessed presence. this is unrelated to age.
True alchemists know you just gotta lean into your inner chaos in order to conjure something new. This is why people stuck in chronic avoidance also suffer for prolonged periods. There is no reward for avoiding yourself.
My therapist once told me: "The guilt you feel for setting boundaries is a sign of how deeply you were trained to abandon yourself."
She was right.
That guilt isn't yours. It's left over from someone who punished you for having needs.
doctors being so bad at identifying autism is hilarious when you consider how good children are at figuring out who's autistic when they're deciding whom to bully
@ChitlinPapppi You try and have a conversation with someone and you can just tell their screen time is 12 hours a day. They don’t have any real thoughts they just spit out headlines that they scrolled past it’s insane