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How to Process Late Diagnosis Anger and Lost Years

Everyone told me I was lazy throughout school but I just got diagnosed with a processing disorder at 28 and I'm angry about all the years I believed them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Late diagnosis can trigger grief for the years lost to self-blame and misunderstanding when learning differences were misinterpreted as character flaws.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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