Rich Forbes
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So he can only ruminate.
And that's a very lonely kind of grief that you have when you sort of find out I'm grieving for that person that I could have been.
Yeah.
I mean, my grief on a social level
a social front was about, you know, it was about saying, you know, why, why am I not able to let people see behind the mask?
And, you know, that whole Jim Carrey movie kind of springs to mind when you do it.
But actually what I, I think I discovered on that, on that journey for me personally, and again, a lot of people that I talked to who were of my generation, so born in the seventies and, you know, lived through the eighties and all that sort of stuff is that,
When it's not been visible, when it's not been tangible to you that you're masking, you just think everybody else creates a persona for the environment that they're in.
And that means that you don't actually know what the real core of you actually is.
So you're not trying to suppress the real you.
The real you is actually just a multitude of masks in different situations.
And, you know, so there's the grief part, which at the start is saying, you know, the social situation, if I could just be myself, then I could be, you know, more engaging.
I could be more conversational.
I could do the small talk thing and it'd be easy.
But actually, the reality of it is that there's a sequence of masks and behind that mask is nothing, you know, and that's OK.
Because we're ADHD, we don't have a super high wave of thought messages going through our brains to then only have one persona that sits there.
We have a multitude of personas, and our ability to adapt, again, is linked to being in the hunter.
We have to adapt to our environment and be right for that environment in order to secure our prey, in order to put the tribe to safety, in order to get the right non-poisonous fruit and veg into our systems.
So I think it all kind of boils down to that kind of point is that it's okay to have different variables to your personality.
You call them masking or whatever you will.
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