I know the author is well meaning, but for some part of the population, this is just more of the same hurtful invalidation we've received our entire lives.

Being neurodivergent involves others constantly encouraging us to set ourselves up for failure.

They don't see the exhaustion so they expect us to push through. They don't have our limits so they expect us to overcome ours. They have will power to get them what we don't have so they think we aren't using ours.

There's nothing in here that hasn't occurred to me before. And it's not necessarily that the conclusions are incorrect, but that for some people they come at an extreme cost to mental health and are not truly sustainable.

I would love to hear people voicing acceptance instead of more of the same of telling us that we should try harder when we're already trying to the point of constant overwhelm.