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[–] Browse8474@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Pretty early on, I got told to stop asking 'why/how?'.

I'm not sure why they thought I was questioning them specifically and not out of curiosity.

Stopped me from Questioning things during school which I think just made me mask heavily unfortunately.

I was and had been undiagnosed my whole life until recently.

I love learning, Tinkering and Data.