Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Discovering #selfworth among neurodivergent peers #nddisney2025

29 May 2025 · 1 min

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A neurodivergent person reflects on masking in neurotypical spaces and finding self-worth through peers with ADHD, autism, or AuDHD. They discovered that neurodivergent people connect in wildly different ways, even within the same diagnosis, shattering the myth that they're all alike.

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I think one aspect of learning about myself was that I felt like, wow, I, I'm a little further than I thought I was. Because when you're not around people that are similar, you always feel like you're behind. You're still trying to catch up with everyone else and that you don't fit in and you've gotta find ways to fit in. You've gotta put that mask on. You've gotta pretend and mirror and do all of that kind of stuff. But the thing that I found fascinating was how we all connected in different ways. It wasn't like we all connected the same way. We all connected in different ways. And each one of us is so different. We get that stigma out there that if you have ADHD or autism or you're AuDHD or any of that, you're all the same. You have to handle things the same. And I realized even more importantly how diverse we can be within the same diagnosis, within the same thing.