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Apparently, Functioning Counts as Fine
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ISBN13: 9781088102077
Publisher: Life, Apparently.
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
THE CHECKLIST IS COMPLETE. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM HAS FILED A COMPLAINT.
Samantha Fornaris looks functional. She works, parents five children, goes to graduate school, writes books, manages a household, and can answer an email with appropriate punctuation while her nervous system quietly chews through the wiring.
The private version includes crying before showers, sweating through shopping trips, depression disguised as anger, overstimulation measured in talking, tapping, clicking, and arguing, and a manic decision to buy an entire professional tattoo career before ever tattooing anyone.
In this brutally honest and darkly funny account, Samantha dismantles the flattering lie of high-functioning and exposes the price of looking okay while ADHD, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and Bipolar I continue operating without adult supervision.
This is not a recovery manual. It is a field report from someone still showing up, still apologizing, still laughing, and still refusing to accept productivity as proof of wellness.
What's inside:
- Masking so well nobody knows you need help
- Motherhood when one more touch feels like a system failure
- Marriage when 'What's wrong?' has no useful answer
- Productive episodes, expensive ideas, and the aftermath nobody applauds
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