Bit of Advice Seeking

[eliasfrost]

First off: You're way to hard on yourself, of course it's hard to do stuff you haven't done before, even more so when it is expected from you, and the very fact that your fellow senior told you that you don't need to worry is enough.

It's like you're a drummer and all of a sudden you're on stage, playing the electric. There's no reason to get upset, because you didn't do anything wrong. I hear this kind of stuff a fair amount from my brother, as if it's expected that he is supposed to know everything about the job or assignment the first time he do it, things doesn't work that way. They simply don't, that goes for everyone.

Unless someone explicitly told you that you did a bad job, then you probably have nothing to worry about. Everyone do things differently and are good at different things. I'm really bad at paper work because I can't keep things together and organized and I know that, but I'm really confident in doing physical labour or creative arts. Don't be so hard on yourself, embrace your weaknesses, don't despise them.

And lastly, how old are you? And are you professionally diagnosed or self-diagnosed?