I just started following this YT channel recently after finally listening to friends and deciding to pursue a diagnosis. It helps knowing what you’re dealing with, but I try to never let labels define me and my capabilities. I freely admit to whining about my heart issues a lot when it’s bothering me and when I’m stressed–but there’s a good reason. Living with DCM and neuropathy and all this stuff — it’s hard! I have always felt lazy and been made to feel lazy whenever my body needed a break and I pushed it to its limit working, not realizing I had a heart that was already damaged.
And by the way–don’t do this! Don’t “bust your ass” for an employer. Do it for you if you have to to survive. Do it for your family. Do it for your own family business. Don’t ever do it for some fucking corporation.
I have had to re-learn my GenX, workaholic upbringing and to stop feeling guilty over a lifetime of struggling with illnesses I didn’t even know I had for much of my life but clearly have caused me to struggle to keep up with the demands of family, job, etc.
This is one of them. Holy crap–I don’t know if I’ve ever related to a video so much in my life, and I feel a lot of things pretty hard.
This feels like when I came out way back when. I am really glad we know so much more about neurodivergent conditions than we did when I was a kid and I hope we as a society continue down this path. Maybe this fits you or someone you love. I’m 54. It’s never too late to learn things about yourself.
Sure wish they had taught us this shit in school in the 1970’s and 80’s. We didn’t know then. Now we do, so we learn and do things differently. Progress.
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