u/No-Reading-5877

I’m a rising freshman, just wondering when/ how your specific move-in days are assigned. Also, are they assigned based on the first person who selected the room?

I’ve just recently realized i probably have audhd. I also have a couple major symptoms of mental illnesses that my parents know about but do nothing to help with. They see me struggle every day and do nothing but tell me to get off my phone more. I’m turning 18 soon but I still don’t have a drivers license or know about my health insurance so I can’t seek a therapist and diagnosis on my own. I feel like I need help in transitioning into the next phase of my life and I need accommodations that only a diagnosis would allow. I told my parents that I need a psychiatrist and my mother told me days later she was “asking around” for a good therapist… My parents are very conservative and don’t want a “liberal” therapist I’m sure. Oftentimes these less neurodiverse affirming professionals don’t know how to help people like me. I feel very trapped. Has anyone else been in this situation ? And if so, what did you do to help yourself?

I just realized that i hate exercising because of the way i think. If i do an exercise wrong i get frustrated and I end up quitting what im doing. In my brain it’s better to just not do something at all if you aren’t doing it right. Does anyone else struggle with this problem?

I just graduated high school and didn’t make a single friend all 4 years. Ive always masked at school and the people who want to be friends with the masked me are people who I actually wouldn’t want to be friends with and who wouldn’t want to be friends with the unmasked me. In college I want to break this pattern and search for friends who Id actually relate to both personality wise and interest wise. What good ways to find friends in college besides clubs (I already plan on joining multiple)? Also, what are good ways to find other neurodivergent friends?

I’m starting the anxiety-inducing process of getting a formal diagnosis. However now I’m feeling a bit reluctant. The idea of getting a diagnosis just feels so major. It’s like without having a diagnosis, I don’t have anything officially different about me, but the idea of getting a diagnosis makes things feel less “ignorable”. I feel like I’m able to blend in the way I am, but if I get a diagnosis I won’t ever feel the same amount of assimilation. Just wondering if anyone else has felt this way.