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Family is so weird (lemmy.zip)
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Once side of my family is Neurotypical for the most part and the other is absolutely crazy with everything from Autism, ADHD and bipolar.

Guess who is more fun to hang around. We always have the craziest get togethers with total dysfunction and chaos.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Mine all have signs of autism and adhd but neither admit to it nore lean in. They probably masked so hard that it defenetly left some damages but them thinking they are NT while clear signs of ND and used to force me to mask...ye

Idk where that was going. Brain went dead mid way threw

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Same. To little energy to elaborate though.