There are two kinds of people in this world: The ones you choose to have in your life and the ones you don’t. I used to be very mixed-up about this, often wasting untold amounts of energy trying to impress or please someone who had absolutely no interest in me or my well-being.

Everyone has done this, but with me there was a difference that I am sure all of you can relate to: I grew up just plain different, an outsider who didn’t fit in. Later, I became an outsider with a diagnosis.

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