My life was so unmanageable for so long. Sensory, social, and executive function stress, and other stressors, kept me in a state of mental and physical pain for years.

Now that I look back, though, I can see that all the unmanageability I faced did influence me positively in some ways. For example, I think it made me more resourceful. It gave me a level of self-awareness that, while unhealthily overactive for a long time, is actually useful now that life is more stable. I'm able to sympathize with people who themselves in unmanageable situations, and I can spot people who've succeeded in making difficult situations livable without hurting others. So, though unmanageability has taken a toll on me, I think I do owe some good parts of myself to it, as well.

Does this idea ring true for anyone else?

Share questions:

• Has anything good emerged from having gone through a time of so many unmanageable factors? Strengths in professional, emotional, social, family, or other sides of life? Resilience? A sense of perspective? Other?
• Is there anything positive about your personality, mindset, or abilities that you feel emerged as a result of past unmanageability?
  
• Does your prior experience with unmanageability keep you safe in your present life in any ways?
• Have you ever imagined what you might be like if pre-identification unmanageability had never been a factor? Would there be anything "missing" compared to who you are today?
• Are there any tools, strategies, or resources that helped you think about this?
• Anything else to share?