Happy New Year everyone!!

I am very glad to have survived 2023 and starting 2024 by returning to this community. In the summer of 2022 after many misfortunes I was hospitalised and spent 8 months in and out of the local psychiatric ward and the rehab center. I had several suicide attempts and no will to go on, having lost my home, my family and even the hope of a career. I believe I was misdiagnosed and mistreated. I am free of medication now and no longer seeing the government appointed therapist who refused to believe that my diagnose might be incorrect.

I believe I am autistic. It is not easy to accept that this might be the case, I come from an abusive background where part of the verbal and emotional abuse was that I was called a "retard" and it was even explained to me that this means that I am behind my peers in development and threatened that I will never be able to live a normal adult life. The latter is unfortunately true. I am unable to live a normal life, but I am seeking an official diagnose, true help, understanding and building a life where I can be my genuine self and succeed.

Being part of this community helped me accept that I don't have to be someone else to make friends or connect to other people. I can be myself and express myself without editing every single word I think of before I speak or type, I don't have to pretend to be someone else to be okay. I can be myself. Thank you for that!

I other news, I am back to drawing!
Check out my gallery to see my latest creations or my open commission to support me financially.
Open Commissions - LINK

- SirArtsyPaw