Val's Slow Processing

• Processing Speed is like a lot of things --- It's INDIVIDUAL
• Things are not always what they appear -- if you're focusing on one area rather than the HOLISTIC WHOLE.
• I can roughly do all the things INDIVIDUALLY that this SOCIETY wants me to do ---
  • But I can't do THE STANDARD WHOLE--- EVERYBODY SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT -- at the same level ---
  • Even if my "THINKING" may sometimes be "ADVANCED."

 

• That "Advanced Thinking" is my greatest strength --- so as hard as it has been --- I haven't been willing to give it up.

 

• To make things more challenging --- there's often a lot of FATIGUE that comes with Neuro-Diversity ---
  • You're often BURNING THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS --- even though it doesn't look like it.

 

• I've made a CONSCIOUS DECISION to let go of a lot perfectionism --- to get out some ideas I felt were not being sufficiently addressed and were CRITICAL.

 

• Further, "Orchid" is one part of my life --- it's not the whole thing.

 

• Balancing the legitimate needs of other people and my own legitimate needs is hard to do ---
  • If I don't recognize my  differences,
  • Neither does anyone else.
  • & Other people have their own Differences.

 

• As critical as I have been of the mental health profession ---
  • It was my psychiatrist of many years who recognized early on that there was something different in my processing -- it was slower.
  • It wasn't clear what that was --- but the first step is IDENTIFYING some of these processing issues.
    

Florence + The Machine
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Florence Welch has Dyspraxia and Dyslexia.  To me, this is a BRILLIANT musical and visual presentation of what it feels like to have a Processing issue.  

Dr. Dan Peters
What is Twice Exceptional

I think its important to realize how many TWICE EXCEPTIONAL people are out there --- and many of them started with a "Gifted " label in school and as an Adult got that LATE DIAGNOSIS.

Further, many more never got a recognition of their talents --- just their challenges.

These kids and adults are in a WORLD of HURT and our Society is often pouring SALT in the WOUND.

• "To make something that is already difficult, unpleasant, or painful even worse" ---Free Dictionary

Finally, most of the adults who are Homeless and Incarcerated do have a lot to offer this Society ---

• But if we try to ram them into that Neuro-Typical Mold --- we'll never see it.