Self-Concept

… challenging the stories we tell ourselves

Many neurominorities struggle with mental health challenges and feelings of inadequacy. It’s important to understand the burden we carry so that we can level up past harmful and incorrect relationships to our neuroqueerness.

Depression or Internalized Ableism?

Resenting Privilege

Michelle Obama Quote. I cannot prove my way out of somebody else's mirror if they're choosing to see me in a different way. It cannot be my focus. Their poison cannot be mine.

Different strategies work for different people. If one is ineffective, stop pursuing it. If these are both ineffective, do not assume the literature for navigating hardship is finished being written and try finding your own or speaking to someone who is better at self-introspection (in order to help you).

What matters most is being open to having a self-concept which, when applied, suits your ability to make progress on achieving your goals. Changing your relationship with understanding the world to suit the next stage of your life experience is part of growing as an adult. If your resentment is part of an untreated soul wound or moral injury, judging and dismissing oneself and others for feeling a certain way is unlikely to help anyone change and achieve relief.

  • If you are not making philosophy in this area your profession, it does not matter which worldview is “right” because you are not equipped to vet the philosophical inconsistencies.
  • Being a person means evolving with different epochs in your life. Focusing on getting a worldview “right” rather than using what works and fits distracts you from living in the present and keeps you inflexible, closed to others and new experiences.
  • You can only do so much in one lifetime, and pushing away strategies which:
    1. … fit.
    2. … help you change and nevertheless but feels logically “flawed” may a sign that you are rooted in a deeper negativity bias or resistance to self-growth that you are either A. not trained to spot or 2. do not have the introspective capacity at the time to spot.
  • Use the worldview that works for you continuing to act in your own best interest and allows you to feel better, whatever that is.

You’re Not Bad With People