ADHD and Understanding People
Understanding the 'normal' was survival. If I couldn't pretend that my brain worked like that, I was socially punished. "Trial by fire" empathy if you will.
Understanding the 'normal' was survival. If I couldn't pretend that my brain worked like that, I was socially punished. "Trial by fire" empathy if you will.
I am the hare. And I have lived in a world that tells me the right way to work is as the tortoise, and it’s a box I have tried to fit myself in for most of my life.
I try to put myself into her shoes, try to stretch my brain to understand the mental weight carrying all of that must have been, and it makes me understand and appreciate how intelligent and talented she was.