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| Topic | I've been seeing a therapist and she told me I was autistic |
| adjl 07/17/25 2:07:01 PM #12: | AltOmega2 posted... Yeah I never understood adults who changed their entire lives after being diagnosed with something they had their entire lives. Happened to a guy I know with apparent ADHD. It sounds like your guy is just using it as an excuse and not actually trying to move past it, but for many people it can be pretty liberating to put a name on symptoms that they thought were just them being defective at a personal level. By naming it, you identify that other people have felt the same way, there's an underlying pathology to it that you can blame for things you've done wrong in the past that you'd thought were moral failings, and you can draw on the therapeutic and research history associated with that name to figure out how to work with and overcome the limitations you've been facing. There's a very distinct difference between "I can never get anything done" and "my ADHD makes it hard for me to get things done." The latter is a personal problem, not a personal failing, and it provides a framework via which you can overcome it. It's also just reassuring to know that you aren't alone in your experiences and that others have been able to overcome them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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