Processing Speed is like a lot of things — It’s INDIVIDUAL

Things are not always what they appear — if you’re focusing on one area rather than the HOLISTIC WHOLE.

I can roughly do all the things INDIVIDUALLY that this SOCIETY wants me to do —

But I can’t do THE STANDARD WHOLE— EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT — at the same level —

Even if my “THINKING” may sometimes be “ADVANCED.”

That “Advanced Thinking” is my greatest strength — so as hard as it has been — I haven’t been willing to give it up.

To make things more challenging — there’s often a lot of FATIGUE that comes with Neuro-Diversity —

You’re often BURNING THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS — even though it doesn’t look like it.

I’ve made a CONSCIOUS DECISION to let go of a lot perfectionism — to get out some ideas I felt were not being sufficiently addressed and were CRITICAL.

Further, “Orchid” is one part of my life — it’s not the whole thing.

Balancing the legitimate needs of other people and my own legitimate needs is hard to do —

If I don’t recognize my  differences,

Neither does anyone else.

& Other people have their own Differences.

• As critical as I have been of the mental health profession —
• • It was my psychiatrist of many years who recognized early on that there was something different in my processing — it was slower.
  • It wasn’t clear what that was — but the first step is IDENTIFYING some of these processing issues.

Florence + The Machine
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Florence Welch has Dyslexia. To me, this is a BRILLIANT musical and visual presentation of what it feels like to have a Processing issue.

Dr. Dan Peters
What is Twice Exceptional