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@quiescentGT

This may be garbled due to my heightened anxiety and current fatigue but here goes.

You are more than all the things you've been diagnosed with.

Whether we like it or not, everyone is going to label us with something, regardless of qualifications.

It is not about living up to anyone else's expectations for your life, it's your life and no one deserves the power to tell you how to live it.

Anyone you have to change or achieve for, you will be constantly changing and achieving for, they're not worth your time or your energy.

I'm 35, single, with 2 degrees, 5 trade qualifications, unemployed and neurodivergent.

I don't fit in anyone's box.

I have been labelled too hard, quirky, neurospicy, drama, everyone has a name for me.

But you know what? The people that love me, accept me, enjoy spending time with me, they're not the ones who fit in the typical stereotype of young mum with good job, first house, lovely husband.

They're the ones that are different, like you and me.

We are who we are for all the ones that don't fit because we were never made to.

You are doing so well just by managing, and some days, just coping, is one heck of an achievement.

One of my motivation cards says "to be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing it's best to make your somebody else is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight"

You are amazing, regardless of the labels, regardless of the diagnoses, you are amazing just for being you and if others don't see how strong, tenacious and resilient you are then that's their problem.

Your "job" is to be who you want to be, not who everyone else expects you to be.

AG