Still Here Matters: Suicide, Neurodivergence, and the Things People Do Not See
More than two years after my March 2024 suicide attempt, I am still here—and still learning what it means to let people see the hard parts before it gets that far.
More than two years after my March 2024 suicide attempt, I am still here—and still learning what it means to let people see the hard parts before it gets that far.
My grandmother died when I was 30, and I lost the only support system I felt I had. What followed was less a “midlife crisis” than an ego collapse—and a hard look at grief, codependency, neurodivergence, and rebuilding a self.
Trauma does not freeze a person at the age it happened. It can shape what the brain learns to prioritize—and for neurodivergent people, those layers can get complicated fast.