I've been through this enough times to know. I'm not going to die. I'm going to be okay. I'm having an anxiety attack. That's all. I will survive. At this point in my life, I know how to manage this. I force myself to take deep breaths. I force myself to focus on something menial and repeat it to myself like it's my Bible.
This was, in many ways frustrating to him. As much as we saw that he didn't understand the world around him -- and the world didn’t understand him -- I think he internalized this even more. We stubbornly fought to find a place for him, though over the years, I’ve come to understand that, like my little brother, a small percentage of the world seems to operate on a different frequency, neither understanding or being understood by the masses of humanity.
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