Your Shortcomings Are Your Superpowers

What aspects of your personality have you been hiding, ashamed of, or beating yourself up about?

What parts of yourself do you most fear sharing with others?

What if the traits you that you’re least excited to share… are actually your greatest gifts?

Is it possible that the attributes society calls “introversion”, “ADHD”, “anxiety”, and others, aren’t handicaps, but are actually your greatest gifts?

Not Medical Advice

I recently decided to leave therapy.

So recently, in fact, that I haven’t yet told my therapist that I won’t be back.

Therapy gave me a whole new life.

I’m glad that I went for the past 18 months.

The reason why I felt compelled to quit, is that I decided that I wasn’t interested in completely smoothing out the parts of my personality that other people tend to consider “weird” or off putting.

Name One Genius That Ain’t Crazy

I’m happy that I’m more sensitive than most people.

I’m more intuitive of others’ feelings and viewpoints, and more self-aware.

When I become interested in a topic, I can invest hours delving into books and resources about it. I become obsessed and want to learn everything about my new fascination.

Once I do that, I get extremely excited to talk about my area of focus, often at times that other people may think is awkward or cringe.

I don’t care.

I realized that even if nobody else “gets me” (which isn’t true), that I appreciate the quirks of my personality that experts have called “disorders”.

As Kanye West rapped, “Name one genius that ain’t crazy!".