There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

"wasted potential" you are still living!!! your potential is still here, you can carry on

I was never taught how to succeed or truly love myself, I was only ever taught how to people please because of the adults it benefitted around me. Now I’m an adult with no idea what I actually love doing and all these big questions about what am I doing in my life circle me and at the end of the day if I’m not serving someone else I’m doing nothing and I’m disgusted that I was brainwashed this way

my toxic trait is thinking I can learn something I’ve never done before like play guitar or crochet in 2 hours or less and if I can’t it’s simply because I’m just not good at it