The sad part is that the longer you are undiagnosed the more those neurotypical standards are your standards. So there’s a lot of masking that goes on due to self hatred and it is very hard to train yourself to be more self compassionate.

I’m not supposed to feel guilty all the time about everything?

burn out goes across our society. work at work. work at home. paywalled medical. annoying assed taxes. annoying assed “rules” to make things easy for companies but a nuissance for anyone not ready to completely bendover privacy wise.

@db0 Tagging Lemmy Post ‘Learning to not feel guilty when not acting like others expect of me has been an emotional breakthrough.’ (https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/8890978): #ADHD #memes

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Congratulations on your freedom!