elevator speech, how I got to be this fucked up
Initially I figured on saying this sometime this year, but with two weeks before Trump drags us into further war, now sounds like a good time.
Basically; a kid can potentially not just survive but thrive in adulthood with unmedicated ADHD and related CPTSD. A kid can potentially thrive after having nearly died/lost a limb in a bad accident, OR being minority/Queer in an ultraconservative area, OR growing up with abusive parents and schools. But odds are against them experiencing ALL of this and still coming out in okay emotional health.
elevator speech, how I got to be this fucked up
@Leucrotta ✨years of therapy ✨ - it works at least 65% of the time, if you can get it, kids!
re: elevator speech, how I got to be this fucked up
@eredien I was lucky enough not just to have a few psychadelic trips but to have them with a very supportive friend, and I lucked into a very good therapist, and some other bits of luck helped (I got free during the 90s, I had a few years of living in a rent controlled place, and someone posting about their ADHD experience helped a lot of childhood make sense). Even with that, it's been a real haul -- and of course the world's gotten a lot more difficult, somehow.
elevator speech, how I got to be this fucked up
@Leucrotta It is a lot to deal with for sure.