A realization about how using past suffering as a shield can become an excuse to avoid growth—and why everyone's pain is valid.
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Show how your personal experiences developed valuable workplace capabilities.
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How being visibly different taught me the art of hiding—and why I'm learning to be seen again.
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Clarify misconceptions while advocating for understanding actual needs vs. assumed needs.
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Practical strategies for navigating job searches when your differences are part of your first impression.
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Educational post about how disability exists on a spectrum and why some people with visible differences don't identify as disabled.
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Discuss healthcare navigation, insurance, financial planning - valuable life skills.
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Educational content that positions you as a knowledgeable voice and advocate.
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The cognitive burden of managing ADHD, visible differences, speech issues, and depression simultaneously.
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How speech patterns from cleft repair create ongoing social challenges and assumptions about competence.
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How ADHD perfectionism creates impossible standards that lead to avoidance and shame.
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Moving beyond stereotypes to explore the reality of living with depression day-to-day.
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The complex reality behind medical transformations that photos can't capture - a mother's sacrifice, 23 surgeries, and the ongoing journey of becoming yourself.
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How ADHD rejection sensitive dysphoria amplifies every perceived slight or social awkwardness.
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The wild swings between intense productivity and complete mental shutdown.
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The specific type of isolation that comes from feeling fundamentally different from others around you.
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When someone dies, you don't just lose them—you lose every chance to make things right. The weight of last conversations, missed opportunities, and words you can never take back becomes a loop that plays endlessly in your mind.
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Moving from trying to make yourself invisible to allowing yourself to exist fully in spaces.
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At 18, I was told I'd never have biological children. Instead of devastation, I found clarity. Even now that the diagnosis was wrong, I still choose adoption—because there are too many children who need homes for me to be sad about biology.
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How online platforms can amplify feelings of being "different" and strategies for healthier consumption.
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Changing the voice in your head from critic to ally - practical techniques for self-talk transformation.
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The story of how a scared new mother's trust was exploited, and how that early medical trauma continues to shape my advocacy for proper healthcare today.
Step-by-step approach to developing self-assurance that doesn't depend on external validation.
Continue reading...Like any good journal, this one keeps growing. Check back for new entries, thoughts, and the occasional cat photo.