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3:23pm August 3, 2014

madeofpatterns:

It’s ok to be a confused teenager. Even if that involves mistakenly thinking you have a medical condition you don’t have.

Thank you.  That encapsulates my entire adolescence pretty much.  It’s also okay to try on identities that involves medical conditions you don’t have, knowing you don’t have them, but not knowing what other choice you have, for Reasons that are Very Complicated but Extremely Real.  (Including, in my case, the utter terror of having something that couldn’t be explained with a term that was familiar to me.  Better to be psychotic than to have vague ‘developmental disability’ applied to me, because 'developmental disability’ were words that made so little sense to me at the time, that I couldn’t even conceive that they, or autism for that matter, explained everything that was happening to me.  But they did.  In the end.)