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

Finding your Neurodivergent Tribe #neurodivergentsupport #stayconnected #findyourtribe

12 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker reflects on the contrast between superficial, masked friendships that many neurodivergent people maintain for social convenience and deeper, authentic connections formed with other neurodivergent individuals. She describes how surface-level interactions often involve brief check‑ins where the neurodivergent person deflects attention to avoid revealing personal struggles, while genuine neurodivergent friendships are marked by an instant recognition of shared experience—seeing someone else as “like me” and feeling understood without the need for masking.

And it's the funniest thing too, as a neurodivergent person, when you make friends that like, okay, I don't mean the surface level friends that we all have because we're masking, like the people that call you every now and then or see, and they're like, oh, how are you? And you're like, I'm fine. And you immediately ask them a question about them so that they don't ask more questions about you. A neurodivergent friend that you make and you look at them and you're around them and you're like, oh, you're like me. Yeah.