• kang@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    No matter how hard you try, how loud you cry, some people will never change.

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    4 hours ago

    Not too late but later than I should have:

    • To seek professional mental health help
    • To understand that Bisexuality really exists. Growing up and in my teens in media and pop culture it’s seemed that you either were gay or straight, no other option.
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    When someone is abusive or hurtful to you, 90% of the time it’s not your fault. It’s that there is something wrong or something broken in them. They are malfunctioning and it’s necessary to understand that.

    The other 10%… Well, own that and fix your mistake.

    But a very large majority of the time, it’s them being broken and wrong.

  • Chloë (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    People just don’t care about you that much, if you go into the street wearing nail polish as a a male presenting person no one will care if you don’t act weird about it. Same thing for shaving your legs.

    Family might care though, what helped me was understanding that I spend a few days per year with my family maximum, but I spend that whole time with myself. So who cares what they think be yourself.

    This helped me start transitioning at 19

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      I don’t want to transition. I am 100% male and this will not change, but I still wanna dress sometimes like a gothic queen. Will happen for Halloween.

      But I still feel like people care. Even small changes on me get attention. I guess it depends if you learned lots of peoplr and friends in University or not.

      I think when Learning new people, it might have an influence. But idk. I never tried it because I am afraid.

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    8 hours ago

    That I have moderately severe to severely severe ADHD and I’m on the autism spectrum.

    Makes functioning as an adult quite difficult.

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        If I had known when I was rather younger, I probably could have done much better in school, and would likely have been a bit more successful–in many ways–than I have been.

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          I did great in school. Maybe I would have accomplished more after school. Good diagnosed in my mid 30s.

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            I did great in art school, because everything was working with my hands, and still required a high degree of thought/creativity. I did terribly when I was in school for engineering (prior to art school) because I just couldn’t focus on calculus and physics, even though it shouldn’t have been that difficult.

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    7 hours ago

    I’m not sure it’s ever too late to learn anything. Unless you are dead.

    But I do wish I’d been able to feel ok about my body as a teenager, the anorexia was harmful to my bones & heart, so I guess technically I learned too late to value my body, or learned it too late to avoid damage anyway, though I’m pretty healthy overall now. I think almost all teenagers are uncomfortable with their looks in some way, at least they were back then.

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    Your own happiness is more important that somebody else’s happiness.

    Not to say you shouldn’t be nice or help people, or invest in other people’s growth.

    But don’t do it to the detriment of your own.