Alex Partridge

And there's a huge amount of shame sometimes in recognizing that that's happening to you and not understanding why and how much of a contrast that presentation and manifestation of those feelings can contradict with how a world that is calibrated to a neurotypical standard has taught you is wrong.

Huge amounts of shame.

So in those moments, it's really important to remind yourself, like, it makes sense that I feel this way.

It makes sense that...

Rejection is so painful because we were criticized 20,000 more times than a neurotypical child in our childhood.

With that context, it makes sense that a tiny criticism fills us with sadness and shame.

It makes sense.

And likewise, when you've got a brain that has no traffic light system,

When there's a million highly caffeinated squirrels barreling around up there, pulling you in a different direction, a million ideas, a million thoughts, and sometimes no ability to order them in any kind of priority, and therefore it renders you physically paralyzed to do anything, it makes sense that you feel this way.

It makes sense that right now you can't get off the sofa and stop scrolling social media because that's the only thing that's reminding you

of how horrible you feel about yourself.

Like, it makes sense that I feel this way.

It goes a long way to pulling you out of that shame when you are stuck in these heightened emotional states.

There are millions of us who experience those highs and those lows, and yeah, exactly.

It makes sense that I feel this way, and there is a huge community of all-DHD people who feel the same.

Yeah.

Okay.

Number 11.

Pay the convenience fees.

And what I mean by that is sometimes things are easier to do.