Jung had this concept called circumambulation. Literally "walking around" the center of who you are. Not toward it. Around it.

The idea is that your Self (capital S) can never be fully known directly. You can't look at the thing that's doing the looking. So instead, you circle. Each orbit reveals a new face of it. Each revolution integrates something you couldn't see from the last position.

Sound familiar?

If you're 2e or AuDHD, you've probably been circling your whole life. Revisiting the same themes (rejection, masking, "why can't I just…") but from different altitudes. You thought you were stuck. You were actually spiraling upward.

Here's the thing, though: there's no arrival. The center never fully reveals itself. For most people, that sounds exhausting. For people like us, people with what Dabrowski called the Third Factor, it sounds like Tuesday.

The real question isn't "when do I finish understanding myself?" It's "what am I circling through this time?"