i’ve gone my whole life up until now at 23 undiagnosed and have believed the lie from society that i’m broken that i’m a burden and that i am unlikeable and unworthy i’m still going through testing but my psychiatrist is almost certain i have add and isn’t the first professional to speculate it just the first one who cared enough to dig  i have lived my life so damaged from how adults authority figures and my peers around me have deemed me all the things you describe i am done being damaged i am and we are all so much more resilient than all of those who judge us on their high horses will ever be  we are fighters they don’t know what it’s like to fight because they make their lives easy and simplified by merely deciding other people are defective and not up to their “standards” of “normal”