My mother thinks I am too young

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

Grateful you posted rather than kept it to yourself.

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

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.

Something practical: I set my life up so that this is cheap and simple, because my situation changes every few months.

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

No wisdom, just: I am sorry. That sounds genuinely hard.

What I underestimated was how much of this is admin, and how badly my chaotic twenties are suited to admin.

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.

The cost conversation with my prescriber produced two options I had not known about, and I had put off asking for a year.

Building on what Nyala wrote rather than answering the original question.

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

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

What I would say to somebody my age starting is to find one adult who knows. Any adult. It makes a difference.

The long horizon is the part I think about most. Nobody can tell me what twenty years of this looks like because nobody knows yet.