@TheBreadmonkey And maybe you are just right as you are. 💐

I've always been the odd one, but other people's attitudes to our wonderfully different selves is just chaff blowing in the wind.

We are an important leavening in the bread of life. ✨

And all politician, by definition, suck.

@TheBreadmonkey Streeting doesn't know his arse from his elbow. He must have some rich donors hand up his arse, as he has never had an original or competent thought since he was elected.
You make the world a brighter place and are a lovely human being. You have so many people who think you are an awesome worthy human. Don't let some ignorant Muppet take that away.

@TheBreadmonkey Wes Streeting is a wilfully ignorant prick.

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We should start an ocean-spanning Useless Eaters Club.

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I think we all feel like this sometimes. Realising that we are not broken, but just different, is such a massive thing and makes such a huge difference to our lives and self esteem. It gives us access to so much. Community, help, advice and enlightenment.
But when the outside world refuses to see, or acts as if we are frauds, or just making it up. It makes it so hard. The trick is to remember that they don't know squat. They were the one's who put us into the broken box, whether they knew it, or not. Difference is rarely understood, or wanted by them and will always put a target on our backs. And it's all too easy for them to use that for their own ends.
Basically fuck that and fuck them. Together we are stronger. And the only ones who will ever truly understand.

@TheBreadmonkey Good morning. ☀️ You good? You earn replies like all these by being worthy of them.

@TheBreadmonkey no words 😢🫂🥄🥄

@TheBreadmonkey AuDHD late dx here too.

Idk if you're looking for sympathy, solutions, or just needing to vent, so stop reading here if you don't want advice!

I wonder if it would help to remind yourself that the people commenting that you're awesome are actually more qualified to judge than some jerk in the gov. Or to remind yourself that all of our opinions are meaningless and have nothing to do with you. But you can choose whose words to play on repeat in your head.

@TheBreadmonkey Nailed it. My experience mirrors yours; years being told I have anxiety and depression, finally getting a diagnosis and understanding myself, then this. I'm not just sad, I am raging.

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Almost everyone worthwhile in my life is neurodivergent, trans, or both.

@TheBreadmonkey I never know what I'm going to get from 'Mastodon Roulette' when I check in each morning, but I always know there'll be a handful of posts from you that make me chuckle or even laugh out loud.

You're a star. A lyrical, creative genius. Your perspectives on life are inspiring. And this whole mastodon experience would be very different if I didn't 'know' you.

All this to say: you're perfect as you are. Also: fuck them.

@TheBreadmonkey Fuck those fucking fuckers, Ben. They’re craven fucking liars.

@TheBreadmonkey I'm on a similar path (or maybe actually I'm just workshy and lazy) - and I would love to access that relief...

ANYWAY what normies* think is that no one really wants to work. Everyone finds some things boring and annoying to do. Everyone finds a flickering light annoying. We're all different yada yada you just need to work on your willpower BUT what they don't understand is when the willpower-button/juice doesn't bloody work!

*this might still include me