I’ll be turning 35 (🥴) next month and here are some things I’ve learned so far:
1. Lack of belief in ability and capacity in disabled individuals w/high support needs and disbelief/dismissal of challenges experienced by those society considers “high functioning” is the same shit.
2. I have underestimated how much people bond by talking shit and criticizing others.
3. You think your life is over and yet you vigilantly trudge through waking up and making plans, thinking that cycle will overcome you BUT many of us are lucky enough to get to a point where the waking up and making plans won’t be so painful. And the suffering, painful as it is, might even prove useful for the future plans?
4. Your parent is a child. The adults you come in contact with on a daily basis are children.
5. Burnout is some real torturous shit. It looks different in everyone based on many different things. A sad reality is that some people will only know one version of you from whatever your state of burnout looks like. And it would serve you well to remember that you will also experience one version of others too.
6. You don’t know what you don’t know until you know it 🤷🏽♂️
7. Reading makes you feel better.
8. Divorcing self-worth from productivity seems near impossible.
