Comment by combyn8tor
4 months ago
Wow I could have wrote this exactly excepy for a 1 year difference in diagnosis.
It's hard to reconcile with how difficult it was previously. Life on hard mode is a term ived used too. I try to think that it was all to make me stronger for the second half of my life, but I still regularly wonder what could have been.
One of my favourite lines: “I could solve differential equations all day long, but I couldn’t remember to pay my phone bill”
To quote Ron White, "I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper."
Heh, my undergrad transcript is so funny to look at in hindsight. Great grades in the hard courses, terrible grades in the easy courses. Did well on the final exams for all of them, couldn't be arsed to do the homework for the boring ones.
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Also with you (both) on this one in pretty much every way too. I'd justify hard mode that I loved challenges (and I did, just not always in the right areas).
I try not to look/think back too much - I had (sort of still have) a very successful career but the costs associated with getting there were and are still being paid for.
Getting treatment and therapy has really helped improve my ability to be present, though still such a battle.