I've just started to actually tell people I'm neurodivergent/neuroatyipcal however you want to say that, def still feels like something I can't talk about much because my vocabulary is so limited rn. Trying to find a doctor in arkansas for help with this is rough ya'll.
I made a friend recently who also went through this as an adult. The similarities made me emotional. Neither of our families had the knowledge or resources when we were children, so we just had to learn to cope and learn how to adjust our behaviors and personalities to not stick out or get in trouble. The only acceptable part of my behavior I could acknowledge was my intense perfectionism, but even then, it was one of those things where other people just chime in with "oh me too, I'm def a perfectionist."
anyway, the more I learn, and the more I talk to others, the more my own history begins to make sense in a way it never has before.
@ghoulnoise Oh those precious moments of eyes opening... I've lived through it, and later on I lived it through again with a friend who was living through it for themself.
Like the whole world was suddenly in a different position.