Hi all.

I just wanted to share with you guys I am struggling to live life but due to my natural interests in the sciences and willingness to discover the unknown, I have decided to get a PhD in neuroscience after completing my MSc after completing my BSc. I am a first year college student. I am different, yes, I cannot drive and I lack common sense, and I am anxious as hell because of the aforementioned reasons and other biological reasons like my maladaptive daydreaming. Yet, I know how it's like to live a life filled with neurological mess.

Mental illness and disorders of the nervous system can kill and drive people to do all sorts of terrible things. Our understanding is still primitive and we don't have a definitive treatment for any of the disorders. I am gonna try to change this, but I definitely not know it's not a one man show. I am gonna need a team of colleagues, who will understand me and even necessary the problems that will lie before us.

No, my life is nothing like the TV series the Good Doctor (although that's my Google username) I sit home all day, sleeping half the time and doing rest of the things -- including studying -- the rest of the time. My parents are also mentally ill, and my life's a bit like the movie Tangled, but that's not an issue hopefully as my professors and doctors tell me. You'd be expecting me to do a PhD in neuroscience in the top institution of R&D with ease.


That's nowhere near true. Except for the top institution part, cause only THAT offers a doctorate in neuroscience.


I used to struggle to pass. HOWEVER, I have improved myself a lot this year and I am a promising person. HOWEVER even that does not mean I am able to handle the Hubble telescope or even run tests for functional groups in our lab.

Things change gradually and not overnight. My professor (whom I have utmost respect for) of chemistry told me I will be able to do lab work, I just need to wait. He didn't assure me I'll be known as a the Einstein of pharmaceutical sciences, however, I believe if I improve myself the best I can, I can do work in the R&D sector along with a team of scientists who are considered to be the best the nation has to offer. That's not an easy feat.

Anyway, I just wanted to tell that even people with intellectual disability, like me, can achieve great things. You just need to discard the negative thoughts, improve yourself and try to achieve what you always wanted. It may not always be a career, in fact, I look forward to attend parties and making new friends and learning to drive two wheelers. It may be something like getting buff, overcoming mental illness or whatever that's holding you back which will sound mundane if I write it here.

I gotta stop somewhere, I'll leave you something to imagine...

[MickeyCheeky]

((((TheLonelyChemist)))) You're absolutely right. You can do it and I believe in you. Don't give up

Originally Posted by MickeyCheeky

((((TheLonelyChemist)))) You're absolutely right. You can do it and I believe in you. Don't give up

I just can't expect for things to change by themselves or let someone else steal my passion. I am gifted, okay? I am gonna make a difference, I am gonna contribute. Nothing except death can stop me. I'll just have to overpower mental illness, which seems to be the purpose of my life.

[MickeyCheeky]

That's the way to talk