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My partner is like this. Fully functional until they went down with stress because of the effort it takes to appear normal.
It took several years to come out of, and to figure out that there is an autism diagnosis behind it
The god thing is, that living in a socialistic country, with proper social welfare they were offered to work 10 hours a week and the state would compensate for the remainder of the wage to equal a full time employment
You're only normal until things start falling apart. I think it's important to not try too hard to be what you aren't
Thanks for this reminder at the end. I sound similar, 'normal unless everything collapses' and I have got a lot better these past few years from just backing out of things more often
Wow, what country?
Denmark