Tessa Schlesinger
1 min readMay 26, 2021

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Well, I've always thought I'm okay as I am. The only reason I spent years trying to figure out what was wrong with me was because of the abuse I received from my mother and a lot of other people. Turned out I was autistic. Once I understood that there was a lot of things I missed out on - like greeting people, agreeing with them politely (when I didn't), smiling sweetly instead of telling some boss to take his hands off me, it all fell into place.

I know everybody seems to want to develop themselves and become this or that or better than they are.

I think they would be better invested in accepting themselves and just learning to do the things they enjoy. :) For me, that's dancing, writing, photography, etc. No desire to be famous or anything (but I would certainly like to earn a few pence in order to survive), so, no. No desire to 'develop potential.'

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