It’s easy to tell when someone has a broken leg because they have a cast or are using crutches. Neurodiversity and mental health issues, on the other hand, are often impossible to see from a casual glance. Sometimes, especially when we are struggling, we work so hard to appear ‘normal’ on the outside that we are unable to celebrate the powerful truths within ourselves.
What we see on the surface may not reflect at all the truth about the individual. I strive to get under the surface and see what is really going on at a person’s core, for only at the core can a person really be understood and forward progress be made possible.