The people who have this mental illness but enjoy having it probably are not gonna like the way the MC deals with it / manages it because it acknowledges a lot of medical stuff about it and the actual like brain chemistry of it. Oh well.
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Yeah, the "this isn't a mental illness it's a SUPER POWER and you folks who are disabled by it are just stuck in internalized ableism and by saying it disables you, you are just contributing to stigmatization" crowd are NOT gonna like this book, but this book isn't FOR them.
If it's what I think it is, then yeah. Just cos there are some useful things that can come with it (creative solutions, being good at lots of things quickly) doesn't mean I magically remember to feed myself without reminders.
Yup! My favourite trick is turning off the lunch alarm thinking I'll do it in a minute. Suddenly it's an hour later, my hands are shaking and I need to devour everything in the house.
Your disability is your superpower is just exhausting. We can y'know, live with disability and the pressures it brings, without having it be fixed or get superpowers "in exchange".
Turns out, even in fully automated gay space luxury communism, major executive dysfunction, memory issues, concentration and focus issues, etc, can all be extremely distressing! It's not just the capitalism!
It just feels so icky and gaslight-y to be told the thing that makes my life hell is actually a blessing and I'm Doing It Wrong by finding Swiss cheese memory a difficult thing to live with and if I just Change How I Think About It, I'll be happy when I forget to do my taxes!
And that's not even getting into how it makes maintaining personal relationships an absolute nightmare when your emotions don't degrade but people do apparently take it personally when you disappear for months at a time because your brain forgor they existed in a material way
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