#thinking abt how i see my gad diagnosis as a life raft that tells me i’m not being dramatic
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thinking about the experience of growing up undiagnosed and having a twin sibling who was diagnosed very young
#marzi speaks#thinking abt how those differences in the ways we were raised have impacted us as adults#thinking abt how i see my gad diagnosis as a life raft that tells me i’m not being dramatic#vs how he sees his autism diagnosis as a restriction that keeps him from doing all he wants to achieve#thinking about how i revel in being ‘weird’ and standing out vs how he fears being ‘weird’ and craves to be normal#thinking about how we both kind of resent the amount of attention he got specifically because of his autism growing up#thinking about how i would never resent him but i am so so jealous that he always gets help when he asks#thinking about how he would never resent me but he is so so jealous that people automatically assume i can do things without accomodation#thinking about how we’re envious of each other for things we resent about our own situations#thinking about how the grass is always greener#idk. i was a glass child and i’m starting to realize that it shows in every single aspect of my personality. every single one#thinking about how despite this we have always done our best to be there for each other#this isn’t a vent post but it IS very personal so i’m making it unrebloggable
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