For me, it’s the near-universal social rejection. To a large degree, I’ve learned how to live with it, accept it, not blame myself or others too much. It’s not always a bad thing, either, or not as bad as it might seem… there are positives.
But it is easily the thing that adversely affect my life the most. Every group rejects me, eventually, if not immediately. Every friend becomes unfriendly, many work relationships are strained. Finding a way to be okay when it seems like everyone would rather you just go away.
Today, it feels more difficult than usual but I know I will feel better soon. I wish I had some ND friendships to help me recharge. It’s funny, I left a comment on another post on how to best deal with this kind of thing but, honestly, my capacity to be resilient is not so great rn. Hopeful it will be better tomorrow.
For me it is self confidence and drive. It is constantly struggle to maintain momentum and low self confidence constantly discourages me from trying.
I’m not sure if you’re describing a specific context for this. Do you have an example? Sorry, I’m not quite clear on what you mean.
I was unemployed for the longest time, a big part of it was low self esteem so with the help of a therapist I finally get a job and start a new hobby. I lose momentum and just stop doing the hobby and hate the job but don’t look for others. I get stuck in ruts very easily. I want a lot of things to be different in my life but failure over sensitivity that comes from low confidence gets in the way of so much of. I don’t date because of past failures and don’t try new certain hobbies for the same reason.