When your way of moving through the world doesn’t match what’s expected, it’s easy to internalise the idea that you need fixing. That if you could just regulate better, try harder, or adapt more successfully, you’d finally feel at ease.

If you’ve spent years feeling slightly out of step — too sensitive, too intense, too distracted, too much, or somehow not enough — it’s easy to assume the issue is you. That if you could just try harder, regulate better, be calmer, more consistent, more “normal,” things would finally click.