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The rage that comes from a lifetime of sacrificing your needs

The rage that comes from a lifetime of sacrificing your needs

When survival is no longer demands keeping quiet but speaking up

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Justine Field
May 15, 2025
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The legacy of a life of undiagnosed neurodivergence is how much I’ve given up in the name of survival. How much I’ve masked, compensated and erased myself in an attempt to fit into a world that wasn’t made for people like me. How the parts of me that didn’t promote my survival fell away to leave an acceptable version of …

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