#high functioning anxiety

[the-wanderer]

[cryinginmyroomsposts]

the tragically beautiful pipeline from high-functioning child to burnt-out adult with a laundry pile of hobbies itching to be cleaned and used again but the adult is just too exhausted to do anything more than pick them up from the pile to check if they are dirty enough only to find out... they always will be dirty now that the adult has lost the bandwidth to do laundry

[embracetheunseen]

I didn’t realize I was burnt out… because it didn’t look like burnout. I was still functioning. Still showing up. Still doing everything I needed to do. But inside, I felt disconnected from myself. Quiet burnout isn’t always obvious. Sometimes it just looks like you… slowly disappearing in your own life. If this feels familiar, you’re not alone 🤍

[the-ellia-west]

I love how people are like: AUTISM ISN'T A DISABILITY, WE'RE JUST DIFFERENT!

Like yeah, okay. I may not be diagnosed but my friends (most of whom ARE diagnosed) and I agree I fit most if not all the DSM 5 criteria and yes, it is a disability. It makes me sensitive, and stops me from doing things that would be easy to do if my brain didn't function this way.

It makes my life harder, I get hyperactive and my emotions are volatile and I've never been able to keep a friend beyond four years.

It makes my life HARD, and saying it's not a disability is frankly, not only unhelpful, but invalidating, and in a way, is indeed Ableist. It's not a different ability, it's a disability. Call it what it fucking is.

I don't want to be told that I don't have a disability, I'm just not 'trying hard enough'. Because that's one of the things that makes having this disability so shitty sometimes.

It doesn't make us incapable, and we don't need to be treated like it. We need to be treated like real human beings, with real wants and needs, who struggle in real and not very unusual ways.

I don't want to conform. I don't want to have to TRY HARDER just to succeed. I have Autism. I have anxiety. I'm depressed. I am disabled. I AM trying.

And I'm done being told that I'm not.

[thekindredwild]

[thisperfectmonsoon]

anxiety & brain fog are a fucked up combo. like I know I should be worried but I can’t remember what about.

[unwelcome-ozian]

[glitterpennotes]

high functioning depressed bitches rise!

✅ responsible for emotional state of entire family from a young age

✅ generally bubbly personality despite internal fear and despair

✅ will be in the absolute depths of misery and mental illness but work and academic performance will never once falter

sometimes i try to talk to my friends about being upset and i get so so uncomfortable bc my whole life i was taught not to burden other people with my sadness so i end up either apologizing or comforting them every time!