as small as a world and as large as alone

12:08am October 27, 2013

andreashettle:

realsocialskills:

p-3a:

you know when harry is told, “you’re a wizard”

and all the mess and the weirdness and the Things Other People Don’t Do and the namecalling and everything, all of a sudden they make sense because he knows this thing about himself which explains it all and it’s not his fault any more, and what’s more, there’s a community of people who have experienced the exact same thing that he can now relate to?

that’s what a correct diagnosis feels like

“don’t label yourself” my arse

realsocialskills said:

it’s also what it’s like to find a community of people similar to you who understand, even without diagnosis.

Reblogging because, THIS. Is what it felt like when I was diagnosed, at age 26, with attention deficit disorder.

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