In case you aren’t related to me and didn’t know, it was my dad’s birthday last week. Looking through photos and various paraphernalia to make the perfect post about him that he almost certainly wouldn’t see, I found a note I had written to him as a child. In it, using language that would now be considered “toxic” and “victim- blaming”, I apologise for yelling at him for picking his nose (while also pointing out how disgusting I found it).
Not to try and excuse my behaviour which I would describe medically as “being a little shit”, but occasionally in life we can look back at our child selves and understand something we didn’t know at the time. This is one of those instances. To me, I can see the little shittery, but I can also see something else that probably caused this behaviour towards my dad, a condition outside my control: misophonia. Now that ADHD has had its moment in the sun, I am here to push for my cause.
