10. Hyperfocus

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[Panel 1] NARRATOR: “I’ve been pushed over my limits all my life.”

[Panel 2] NARRATOR: “But even when I try my best,”

[Panel 3] NARRATOR: “people just assume I don’t care, because I miss little details.”

[Panel 4] NARRATOR: “So when I do something well, I can’t acknowledge it,”
[Panel 4] NARRATOR: “because I never know if I’m able to reproduce it.”
[Panel 4] NARRATOR: “It feels more like luck than skill to get it right.”

[Panel 5] NARRATOR: “People’s work quality and output naturally fluctuate.”

[Panel 6] NARRATOR: “But for me, it fluctuates more extremely.”
[Panel 6] NARRATOR: “It feels like if I blink, I could already have lost a job or failed my degree.”

[Panel 7] NARRATOR: “Now my only measure of “I worked enough” is when I’m too exhausted to go on.”
[Panel 7] NARRATOR: “And the word I learned for all of this was “lazy”.”
[Panel 7] NARRATOR: “I have never learnt a healthy measure or how to trust in my abilities.”

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