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Time for another #BuildInPublicTherapySession!
Today, we& #39;re going to talk about pain. Specifically, this week for #ODCC1, we were asked to think about our students& #39; pain points and where we could help them. Turns out, for #NeurodiverseEntrepreneurs, I think I have a really
Today, we& #39;re going to talk about pain. Specifically, this week for #ODCC1, we were asked to think about our students& #39; pain points and where we could help them. Turns out, for #NeurodiverseEntrepreneurs, I think I have a really
good idea of where those pain points are, because I& #39;m currently going through some of them. One of the ideas I keyed in on was the idea of being limited by past failures, specifically those related to our neurodivergence. Failures are something that can& #39;t be avoided as
an entrepreneur. I know this. You likely know this. But one of the lovely traits that tend to come along with #ADHD and #Autism is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD). There have been others who have outlined RSD much better than I can, so I& #39;m not going to go into specifics,
but the idea is that rejection (and by extension, failure) is felt extremely powerfully, even if there wasn& #39;t an actual rejection. This pops up all the time for me. I& #39;m currently experiencing it, which is what is led me to write this thread.
I mentioned earlier this week that I have been participating in the Impact Innovation Academy and there was a pitch competition today. Three companies were awarded cash prizes, and unfortunately, DeFiNet wasn& #39;t one of them. That award would have really helped, but oh well.
And that& #39;s where the RSD really starts to come in. A little voice in the back of my head starts telling me that I& #39;m a failure. Nothing has gone like I wanted it to. I obviously have no idea what I& #39;m doing and I was stupid to give up a stable career to pursue my dream.
Logically, I can point to a million little things that have been going right for me. I know that I& #39;m in it for the long term and I& #39;ve been making progress, even if it& #39;s not as fast as I would like. That doesn& #39;t get rid of the voice in my head.
And that voice wants to remind me of every email that I never got a response to. And every attempt to build something that falls flat. And it makes sure to point out the patterns of failure that can be related to my #ADHD and #Autism. The problem with that voice is that it knows
all of my insecurities and plays on them. It doesn& #39;t help that I have people in my life who also like to point out my failures. I& #39;ve tried to explain that this is not helpful, but it doesn& #39;t stop them from doing so.
So how do you deal with that voice? I like to write until it goes away. That& #39;s the other purpose for this thread. It& #39;s helping me apply logic to the overwhelming emotions that I& #39;m experiencing.
A lot of feelings today. Time to process them and move on. Tomorrow is a new day.
