Being neurodivergent is so bizarre, because you often excel at tasks others find hard, but struggle with what others find easy. People will see you do something complex really well and then assume you can easily handle all the "simpler" tasks- but often those are harder for us!
I'm starting to realise how many assumptions I've internalised about what difficulty different tasks are "supposed" to be. My job has involved more admin than usual recently and I keep beating myself up for struggling with something so "basic".
The thing is, it's not basic for me! It's requiring me to follow lots of really niggly and detail orientated processes and document everything I'm doing in a communicable way...ADHD makes these things really really hard.
If I was thrown into a crisis, and needed to do complex analysis quickly, I would never be angry at myself for struggling. I know that it's supposed to be difficult (even if I usually find it easy)! Yet I can't give myself a break for struggling with what MY brain finds hard.
Idk I guess this thread is just my reminder to you all that neurodivergence literally means you experience the world in a different way to those around you. Just because your struggles don't easily map onto what other people find hard, doesn't mean they aren't real.
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