It's Okay to Fail. I do it all the time. 

I am learning to embrace failure. I am a college student with ADHD and I am learning how to shed away my past trauma from neurotypical standards for "the right way" to be a student. My family doesn't believe I have ADHD, so we agree to disagree, but they and the way they raised me are my setbacks in some ways. It isn't easy to change my reactions to failure from "I am a disappointment to my family" every time I can't study for as long as other students or can't focus to "let's find a different way to succeed", but what matters is that I can now accept my disability by normalizing the obstacles I face and/or lack of accommodations. This reduces my depression symptoms, because I realize I have more control over my ADHD and how it affects my success than I was taught.

Thank you for being so real. You have such a gift of communication about this topic. I just love you and your personality. I feel so better knowing I'm not alone when these feelings. You are so fun and funny and real. Thank you. 💕

Without failure, you simply have nothing to learn and build upon and grow from. Melissa, I have followed you for years now, from back in the days where you and your child did doll reviews together. I wish you and your family peace and grace, especially for your son. I’m not transgender nor pretend to understand the mountain of emotions, struggles etc that come along with it, but I understand what it feels like to not be like your friends and have feelings you can’t really talk to them about because they can’t relate to them. You see, I am bisexual. At first I felt like this part of me that was attracted to women (I’m a cis-gender female) was wrong and that I had to shove it deep down and make myself only like boys. Then one day when I was in my twenties I decided that screw what society says I should be attracted to. It’s perfectly normal to be attracted to both boys and girls. Never have I felt so liberated! It was like a release of everything I was shoving deep down inside of me and a blanket of peace and tranquility enveloped my soul! I hope you and your son can feel like this someday. To just stop fighting yourselves, and to accept who you are. Your beautiful, strong people. Just the way you are.

i've been dedicating my time for the last few weeks both prepping things to practice more at drawing & painting as well as working up the courage to start creating youtube videos. there's days where i'm super pumped & able to think everything out logically, and then there's other days where i'm so overtaken by anxiety that i feel discouraged and get too overwhelmed to do anything. i feel like everything you're saying is something that really scared part of my brain needed to hear

Ive been trying to get my diving license for a while but I don't have any motivation to go out and practice and I really HATE driving!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭I also feel like when I don't do a bunch of stuff in 1 day (like cleaning the whole house) I end up feeling like I've just wasted the day :( Been struggling a lot with this lately. Thanks for this❤️ I look forward to your videos every week!

This was SO helpful and healing today! Thank you! I have been doing 2-3 full time jobs at work for almost a year now and asked for a raise and got a big fat no. I’ve felt dreadful about myself for over a week until I listened to you today. Thank you for sharing!!

Thank you for this! Juat became a board member for a non profit and am TOTALLY doubting my capacities.

Roller skating.

On your bio for this channel, you let us know you aren't a therapist or a medical professional. Most of us don't need that, but we do need what you give us! You talk to all of us like a friend who cares! You give us the pep talks we need that we aren't getting from the people really in our lives

❤️ it’s ok to make mistakes and I learned that over the years it takes time to learn that and me being my worst credic when I was younger didn’t know that but now I do! So yeah I can relate miss hunter

Same.

I view failure as a learning experience, with one exception. I will not submit my fiction to publishers because it crushes me to be told my work is less deserving than books that say things like "She saw his truck coming through the window and ran outside to greet him".

weight is my thing ,I really need to lose weight .my knees are sore. I know what to do but hold my self back .I have gained and lost weight so many times in my life .

I am at the moment, wondering what it would be that I might be afraid to do? Most of the things I want to do and can't/don't are due to money. I have overwhelmed myself with yard, garden and house projects for the spring and summer to keep busy. They are all good things that need done and some I am SICK of waiting for to happen so I will do them myself...but there is no fear there. I do have some health limitations, mainly in my legs, but I am going to the doc this week. Oh yah, there's a fear, claustrophobia. If they suggest an MRI which I have no idea if they would, it's not happening. They could shoot me dead and I would still jump up and have a royal freak. It's not going to happen! There were too many people in the hallway where I work yesterday and I had a small anxiety attack but alleviated it by darting away from the congestion. Love this channel and the great work you all are bring about. Thanks so much!

Hey Melissa I know this is off topic, but have you looked into the Roblox drama at all? I'd love to see you play other games, but I personally don't support Roblox anymore :// just for the way the company is managed. Some of the community is still very good

There's been some controversy regarding Roblux exploiting children so you might want to check into that before you advertise for them.