Living in a world that defines us before we’ve been given a chance to know ourselves can lead to some extremely difficult life experience. For those of us who could not sit inside the definitions: self exploration and even survival itself is rife with challenges and obstacles. As we question ourselves society will already have answers for us, health systems will try to simplify our struggles into a neat diagnosis whilst lacking understanding and knowledge, they may want to gate-keep to save money helping you, some therapists may think they know it all but don’t really know you or your neurology, you may be judged based on physical appearance rather than empathetic listening, your life experiences and internal world may be invalidated because you don’t look like somebody else who you did not asked to be compared to.

Through this blog I am going to share my experiences, and the obstacles constantly put in place that served to cause confusion and distress. Will you find any of this familiar? I hope that in sharing my experiences I can at least help my readers to see patterns and traps that can keep us stuck.