It Will Be Ok - Or It Won't...It's One Of These

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Celebrated that daughter of mine…

On her birthday…with Mexican food…coffee…and quality time…doing homework…

That OCD…a curse and a blessing…excels academically…but the curse…her OCD curse…perfectionism in reading and writing…makes these tasks…take…forever…like…for…unbelievably painfully…ever…

Reads and rereads and rereads and rereads…until text can be retold…writing tasks…paragraphs…tests…papers…ugh…

Has always owned her OCD…been open…transparent…but that’s…where the stereotype comes in…educators…coworkers…bosses…telling her…

Just try harder…go faster…her issues…aren’t really OCD…because that’s not…according to non-expert them…what OCD is…

And so…she plugs away…determined to get her master’s in educational psychology…so she can advocate for kids…who are misjudged…because of their…invisible challenges…

Today…we lift up each and every one of you…who live with a gift and a curse…and applaud you…for fighting the good fight…

And as that OCD sticker…a token from the OCD walk…says…

It will be ok…or it won’t…it’s one of these…#ocdiowa…
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And this daughter of mine…agrees…