Avalokitesha

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[–] Avalokitesha 6 points 11 months ago

As someone diagnosed after much fighting in my thirties who still has every new doc trying to tell me I can't have it: fuck you. People like you are the reason no one believes the people who are skilled in masking because they got abused enough as kids so they don't even knowwho they are underneath the mask.

[–] Avalokitesha 7 points 11 months ago (10 children)

I feel like the more you understand how your brain works, the more you learn how to work around it.

Full disclosure: I'm not diagnosed, but on a waitlist for ADD - for over a year now and it's not moving, but I digress. I am diagnosed with autism though.

To me it feels like my brain is a wildwater. You can't control it, but if you change the environment around it, you can guide it into useful directions. I'm lucky that by now the people around me have accepted it and are able to laugh with me when I fuck up. We have a lot of systems in place to reign in the worst effects, and the more we get used to it the easier it gets not to fall into traps and not to be unreliable.

I guess I'm working on my skills as a mindbender who tricks my brain into being useful while still allowing it to get that dopamine?

[–] Avalokitesha 5 points 11 months ago

I definitely feel I am. Lights and sounds get me, but that feeling in my stomach? Am I hungry, angry, or do I simply have to poop? Time will tell, I guess x)

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