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When learning differences lead to unsustainable overcompensation

I'm dyslexic and made it through college by working twice as hard as everyone else, but now I'm so burned out I can barely read a grocery list.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Your adaptive strategies have become self-destructive, and the identity built on overcoming obstacles is now the obstacle itself.

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