Living at home and hiding the box

My prescriber and I have a plan that gets reviewed every six months, and having it be revisable rather than fixed suits my life.

Torrin — taking your question as you asked it, because I think the thread has widened it.

What helped was one friend who knows everything, which took me eight months to arrange and has been worth all of it.

The thing I would flag to anybody young here is that the internet is very loud on this subject and most of it is selling something.

My experience is that this has been straightforward medically and complicated in every other respect.

I found the social side hardest. Everybody eating and drinking constantly and no interest in why I was not.

No advice, just company. Here if it helps.

What surprised me was how much of the material is aimed at people twice my age, and how little of it fits my actual week.

Reading Florrie, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

My honest report is that I am doing well, that it has been mostly boring, and that the boring part is the part I value.

The comparison with people my age online was actively harmful for me and I stopped reading any of it about a year ago.

What I found is that being taken seriously at my age required me to be very organised in appointments, more than an older person would need to be.

Marking that I am here, in case that counts for anything today.

Something that helped was writing down why I started, because at eighteen months I could not remember what my reasoning had been.

I moved cities and had to rebuild every arrangement, which took three months, and I would plan for that if I moved again.

Adding a name to the list of people this helped.

Somebody in this circle said the horizon is long and the decision is revisable, and that combination is what makes it manageable for me.