killbenedictcumberbatch:

hey tumblr seems to focus on Gifted Kids with disabilities as if kids who had good grades and did well in school declined further in their health than the regular old average kids. look. depression, anxiety, physical disabilities, all those other things affect us differently but we can all say we lost a modicum of joy and motivation we may have once had during a simpler time in our lives. there are children who weren’t straight-A students but probably had other talents that were lost to long-undiagnosed conditions. you’re not any more special or deserving of sympathy just because you excelled in school at one point in time. there are kids who never got honor roll, never got a passing grade in their lives whose mental health is just as important as anyone else’s. so here’s to the kids who didn’t achieve much academically who are still suffering with their conditions and miss the people they used to be.