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Aging while autistic
(I’m a 44 year old autistic cis woman, will be 45 in July.)
“I believe in the person I want to become.”
— Lana Del Rey
Image from The Annual Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station // Call Your Mom – Noah Kahan
You need to be okay with being crap at things to get anywhere in life. You might not be the best but that doesn't mean you can't fight for what you want. In the end it's always the people who are least ashamed to go for what they want who will get what they want.
If you Anon someone's inbox don't be a dick. The world has enough people dealing with self-esteem issues, lack of confidence, and mental illness to have to be subject to anyone being an asshat in someone's inbox. If you have to try and degrade people to make yourself feel better, then you are the weakest form of individual and need to go reevaluate yourself.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you cancel/postpone an event or activity because you’re not feeling up to it physically or emotionally, and then you feel better after resting/not doing the thing, this doesn’t mean that you were lying, or that you actually were well enough. You just gave yourself the time you needed to rest and recover. Look after yourselves.
reblog & tag how old you were in 2006