Omg this is meeee
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
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Yeah it's fun when your kid does something, and your wife says that's something that people with autism do, and I answer "She doesn't have autism, I do that all the time!"
And then my other half has to break it to me.
A lot of people find out they're neurodivergent after their kids get diagnosed
Me explaining my ADHD symptoms that prevent me from living a normal life
Raising my own kids who both very clearly have autism I'm learning that a lot of my behaviors that were "so obviously related to my autism" as a kid were literally just normal kid shit. I think they also wanted me to learn to mask 24/7 which is what my undiagnosed father does and it's not exactly a healthy way of handling it (at least for him)
I saw it on all and though "holy shit this is like bipolar". Then I saw the community.
Dealt with suicidal thoughts a lot and my parents just said that its normal and that I needed to occupy my mind with work