Laney’s Wonderland

It’s not cheating if it helps you function.

Need to set up reminders to eat? Drink water? Take your meds? Not cheating.

Can’t swallow pills but you can eat gummi vitamins? Not cheating.

A sticker chart so that you can feel accomplished when you get chores done? Not cheating.

Multiple planning apps/alarms/reminders so you get to places when you need to? Not cheating.

Need company when you fold laundry, or need to toss clean clothes into an open basket so you’ll wear them? Not cheating.

I feel like I held myself up to impossible standards that just exhausted me and left me so much lower functioning because the structure or accommodations I needed to get things done were “cheating”.

Just because I need to accomplish the same tasks different ways from someone who’s ablebodied or neurotypical doesn’t mean that I didn’t still get those things done.