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Aug. 31st, 2017 02:27 am
The important thoughts
A psychologist I recently met to get help with derealizationand panic attacks said something like this: "It is society's duty to ensure that everyone has a place in society. If someone is outside, it's a failure of society not a failure of the individual." It feels like a Swedish thing to say. The opposite would be a much harsher "sink or swim"* attitude. That feels American to me. Well it is perhaps not that simple that one idea is Swedish and one American. For one thing the psychologist was not originally Swedish, she was from Bulgaria. (Sure having healthcare professionals from abroad are probably not just typical Sweden but typical for the whole western world.)
Anyway I have again, for real this time, made the decision to give up on studies. I had been accepted to a program for biomedical analyst, but I know I would not be able to do it. Sure I’m bitter about it. I’m smart and work hard, but I have a disability that affect my executive functions, making it impossible to study. At the same time the job I have done the last fifteen years have been monotony and are hardly even close to my full potential. I have had at least one employer who said I’m “underutilized”. So is it my fault or society's fault that I can’t reach my potential. That I’m traped in works there I don’t get to live out my full potential. There society doesn’t get me as the most effective worker they could get.
* I'm sure I used the phrase right: The meaning of "sink or swim" in the first dictuary I find with google: "If you are left to sink or swim, you are given no help so that you succeed or fail completely by your own efforts".
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