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

Embrace Your Superpower Despite Disabilities #disabilitypride #superpowers #adhd #autism

12 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston discusses ADHD and autism, arguing against negative self-talk and rumination. She frames neurodivergence as having superpowers rather than just deficits, and pushes back on toxic messaging that tells disabled people what they should be.

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celebrating the positive things. If all you do is immerse yourself in the negative aspects of your disability, it's going to suck more than it would from just living regular life because you are swimming in the negative soup.
By swimming in the negative soup, you perpetuate the negative soup. And when you perpetuate the negative soup, you create more negative soup. There's a bit to it. And one of the biggest things that I've realized over time, again, I've known most of my life I was ADHD and 27, 26 years that I was also autistic, but understanding to find the good in life. There's a lot of toxic mindset bullshit out there. This is not pseudoscience. Find the good. And we all have different good. Like what my superpower, and I call them superpowers because the things that I do good, I do good better than the average person. Like 10, 20, 30 times better than the average person. That's a freaking superpower.