Unhinged & Dysregulated
R. Renee
My website: msha.ke/unhingedanddysregulated. I'm R. Renee. I'm a 37-year old Lash Artist turned author and podcaster in Seattle Washington. I was diagnosed in my early thirties with ADHD and soon after that, Autism Spectrum Disorder, among other comorbidities that made this news tough to grapple with at first. The emotional roller coaster of shock, anger because I hadn’t been seen enough as a kid for anyone to notice, sadness because I wasn’t who I thought I was, mourning who I thought I could have been had this been caught sooner and fear of the uncertainty around what was next for me.Being diagnosed late in life caused me to reprocess my entire history; my friendships, my relationships, my career choices, my core memories and especially my trauma. I’m in a season of regrouping and redefining what love, happiness and health look like for me now. I’m deconstructing and decolonizing every neurotypical social standard I’ve tried my whole life to adhere to. I’m unmasking and building com