the thing is that we usually don't grow up just surrounded by neurotypicals but by other undiagnosed neurodivergents who didn't know a lot of things either.
So instead of learning incredibly useful life skills like
- understanding yourself, needs and emotions
- how to self regulate, deal with big feelings
- how to be your own friend, be gentle and patient and supportive of yourself
we learned their sometimes obsessive and unhelpful coping mechanisms like
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