A neurodivergent business owner describes leaving corporate life to build a community of neurodivergent people, then encountering neurotypical folks and finding them rigid. She flips the script: why do they think their way is normal?
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100%. And I think it's interesting that you brought that up because I think about that too sometimes when— because I surround myself with so many people who are neurodivergent. Like, it's literally like my life mission. I want to help everybody who's struggling, and I'm bringing in all the people who are in this world of neurodivergence. And then I come across this neurotypical person and I go, is that how people think? It's like, why are you so rigid? Yes. You take for granted that that's their normal. And yes, weird role reversal. Yeah, it is. It totally is. Because I mean, I lived corporately before I owned this business, right? So I was surrounded by what we're typically supposed to be and how we're supposed to act and how we're supposed to behave. I was never really good at it, which is why I'm not there now, right? Yeah. But I think you're right. We, we get to a point where we're building these communities and we're surrounding with the people who we know are going to support us and be there for us. And then when we step outside that, that's when we realize, oh, it does require some bravery to be this crazy, right? Or crazy is a fun way, right? Like, yeah, be this authentic.