#BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Autism #ADHD #Bipolar1Disorder

These are the labels I have been given to describe my mental health situation. I now have a copy of the DSM-5 to confirm these are appropriate diagnoses and try to understand each of them better and how they interact with each other. While this is all well and good now, it has been quite a bumpy ride getting to where I am today.
I only just learned about my Autism and Borderline diagnoses in the last 6 months, right after I turned 30. 30 years of undiagnosed Autism and Borderline have made getting through life that much harder, that much more complex to learn to blend in with the 'normies' or whatever group I decided was the one I wanted to be with that day.

#DitchTheFa çade I am so tired of putting on this face for friends, family, even strangers so they believe I fit into their mold of psychonormative behavior, which honestly couldn't be further from the truth.

#StopTheStigma
I also firmly believe part of why I went undiagnosed so long is because as a child, my parents got me some help when I approached them with my suicidal thoughts but they didn't bother to do the whole testing suite that might've shown I was autistic at the very least because they didn't want the stigma of a broken child like that. We have to do better, as a society, to stop the stigma around mental health services and really educate people on what they need to know to deal with neurodivergent people on a daily basis.