Mikhial Lerma

his is my personal story on the challenges that cancel culture can cause individuals. It centers around how narcissistic upbringing, mental health, and neurodivergency can lead towards a life nobody could have ever imagined for themselves. How a label becomes a part of your identity subconsciously but also leads to loss of any and all opportunity for starting life over. I spent an entire decade trying to understand how I fell, why I fell and how self-sabotage keeps becoming an issue that I have to fight over and over again. Eventually along the way I found myself in ways I could have never imagined as well as a since of purpose through faith in a higher power. That will not be my focus, instead it’s a how I once was a college student just like most of you and I had every opportunity to live a fulfilling life, but I didn’t fix me or take the time to see how my understanding of a normal family was flawed and lead to my self damnation before rising up again.