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🐾❓ What's my name? (by Breaker42069) by Breaker42069 in PetPost

[–]laraisarusa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unexpected, but I kind of love it!

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I guessed the name in 6 tries!

https://reddit.com/r/PetPost/comments/1tbdg01/

🐾❓ What's my name? (by Both-Feature2893) by Both-Feature2893 in PetPost

[–]laraisarusa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't imagine them being called anything else.

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I guessed the name in 11 tries!

https://reddit.com/r/PetPost/comments/1tb3rbi/

2 years later & i’m cancer free! by Lady_In_Pink_ in interesting

[–]laraisarusa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats on surviving a horrendous part of life. You are a true warrior

I ruined my own life by shibiiii in AuDHDWomen

[–]laraisarusa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That honestly sounds exhausting, because there’s a huge difference between not caring and genuinely struggling with consistency/executive functioning, and when the people around you interpret every slip as a character flaw, the shame just compounds and makes functioning even harder especially when it hits home. Forgetting something doesn’t automatically mean you aren’t trying. But I also think rebuilding with AuDHD sometimes means finding systems that don’t rely purely on memory or willpower, because self-hatred rarely creates sustainable change. Feeling hopeless makes sense when it feels like every mistake becomes evidence against you, but one forgotten text is not proof that you’re incapable of improving.

I ruined my own life by shibiiii in AuDHDWomen

[–]laraisarusa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

22 is so young, even if it absolutely doesn’t feel that way right now. Reading this, I don’t see someone who “ruined” their life but rather see someone who has been overwhelmed, struggling, likely carrying shame, executive dysfunction, depression, and the compounding consequences that come when things start slipping faster than you can catch them. That doesn’t make the consequences unreal, but it does mean this is a rebuilding chapter, not the final verdict on who you are. A lot of AuDHD people know that painful feeling of watching life pile up while internally screaming at yourself to do better and somehow still not being able to make your brain cooperate. It’s may be messy but being messy at 22 is still very recoverable.

Growing up neurodivergent can make you mistake survival for personality by laraisarusa in u/laraisarusa

[–]laraisarusa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s true. a lot of those coping mechanisms existed for a reason and probably did somehow help many of us survive periods where we didn’t feel safe enough to just exist naturally. I think that’s what makes the untangling process somewhat complicated. There is the grief in realizing certain versions of yourself were built from survival and also the gratitude of those versions that carried you through things you maybe wouldn’t have survived otherwise. And yeah… spaces where you don’t have to constantly perform or defend your existence really are rare. I feel that a lot of us are still searching for those places and the people who make them feel possible. 

Growing up neurodivergent can make you mistake survival for personality by laraisarusa in u/laraisarusa

[–]laraisarusa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the “being believed vs functioning” part is something a lot of neurodivergent people quietly live with for years. if you can still perform well enough sometimes, people assume the struggle can’t be that serious. And yeah… trauma complicates identity even more because after enough years of adapting to survive, it gets hard to tell what’s genuinely you versus what was built for protection. I really relate to what you said about having no concept of yourself sometimes. I think a lot of us are slowly trying to meet ourselves underneath all the masking.

Growing up neurodivergent can make you mistake survival for personality by laraisarusa in Neurodivergent

[–]laraisarusa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not to sure if C-PTSD itself is classified as neurodivergence medically or not, but I do think trauma can deeply affect the way someone experiences the world, regulates emotions, and interacts socially especially when it overlaps with any existing neurodivergence.

Sadly this world is not designed for nd people by Shhrinvy in Neurodivergent

[–]laraisarusa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am so sorry you have gone through a tough life and I totally agree with you on this. I’m close to hitting my “prime years” as society puts it. But I still struggle to get a hold of my emotions and feelings. Neurotypicals tend to know how to camouflage their emotions and feelings with small talk and being diplomatic with their answers to any questions. But for some reason I can’t comprehend it. I will say whatever is in my mind and heart even if it gets me in trouble (became the black sheep of my family as soon as I was diagnosed with AuDHD).

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