When I was a kid, I developed my own ways to cope with the health difficulties I was facing without knowing that’s what I was doing.
These coping mechanisms were often seen by adults as funny quirks and silliness, but they were never really challenged or discouraged until I got older.
For example, to cope with physical symptoms, I’d hang upside down, sit and lay down in strange positions, and insist on sitting when expected to stand for too long.
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