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[quote=Anonymous]OP,

Tip: complaints do not correlate with suffering, but with personality.

Your homework for 2026: 
1. Study the immense variability of the human experience.
2. Notice the wide range of functionalities of their brains and the personalities they were born with.
3. Observe how certain people never complain yet struggle silently and how some people complain constantly yet live in privilege.

We all have inattentive ADHD and various shades of autism in the family, and we're all quiet, calm, people who aren't given to complaining. My two children have always been "easy", in that they were never destructive or moody. But for the first 18 years of our son's life, our lives revolved around his needs. He needed extensive therapies, tutoring and round-the-clock handholding. Sweet-tempered boy... but so many issues.

It's amazing how much bandwidth I have for so many other things now that's he clawed his way into college and is surviving on his own! Do I complain about all these years spent raising him so he could be a somewhat functional young adult? No! It was well worth it.

I would have dearly loved more children, despite the risks of having more ADHD/autistic kids, but sadly my body decided against it.

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