force myself to be as neurotypical as possible. I would sit and stare at a blank document for hours, reminding myself over and over about the assignment’s importance.
I would force myself to be friends with people who got angry at me for being unable to read social situations because I was sure I would see those cues someday.
And, I would take a sleeping medication every night at 10:50pm so I could fall asleep at 11 pm like everyone else.Sometime in my early 20s I started to notice that I was getting sleepy during the daytime.
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