Jean Campbell
Jun 7, 2024

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As a neurodivergent person (ADHD, at least) who has a spent a lifetime undiagnosed, I do feel semi-gaslit in that I was forced to view myself in a way that is deeply inaccurate. But that's involunatary masking, I guess. Yet something about "being gaslit" feels so right, since my personal reality have been constantly invalidated by a culture that wants me to become a productive member of society when I'm limited in my ability to do so. Still, I have to admit--society isn't doing it intentionally, and neither were my parents or teachers or schoolmates. I just don't fit in, and my sanity has been if not systematically compromised than certainly consistently undermined.

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Jean Campbell
Jean Campbell

Written by Jean Campbell

Writer by day, reader by night, napper by afternoon.

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