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People don’t believe me when I tell them I’m 41. They’re all positive that I’m no more than 28. And they think that my 3-years-younger brother is actually 5 or 6 years older than I am.
This fits the “30% younger socio-emotionally” trait common in many people with ADHD. And it jives with the results of a Rorschact Test I took, 10 years ago. I saw animals in every single picture, and the psychologist who was administering the test said that it showed I had a socio-emotional age far below my physical age.
This trait often occurs in people in the performing arts (like me), and it serves us well when we’re called upon to do very immature things in a performance—like low comedy, having a full-blown temper-tantrum, or getting dressed up in sequins & feathers and slowly removing them while music plays. (Yeah, I do burlesque. What’s it to ya?)
As for “real” jobs, I’ve tried and failed at them. It’s only in the last couple of years that I finally clued into the fact that, no matter how good my Microsoft Office skills, my brain simply cannot cope with an office job. The only thing I really liked about them was the regular, fairly decent paycheques. Today, my “real” job is ushering at a live theatre. It’s fairly steady, and the structure is the same every performance, but with enough variables to keep it interesting. My “unreal” jobs are performing, and making incredible costumes. They don’t come with a steady paycheque, but I really enjoy doing them!
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