Angela MondorClickUp Verified Consultant, ClickUp · Operations consultant & ClickUp Verified Consultant for neurodivergent entrepreneurs

Stop Trying to Fit in the Box: The Neurodivergent Reality 🧠✨ #Shorts

8 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief conversational clip, two speakers discuss the lived experience of neurodivergent individuals, including the speaker’s own family members. They describe the need to "massage" the surrounding world because neurodivergent minds do not fit into conventional, linear frameworks. The dialogue highlights how nonlinear systems thinking clashes with the linear constraints of language, leading to a loss of nuance. They also note that repeated attempts to capture this nuance—through multiple revisions—can strip away the original spark of the idea, illustrating the tension between fluid thought and rigid expression.

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when I'm working with neurodivergent individuals, including myself and my family members, there's a massaging that has to happen that isn't— there's no, there's no box to put us in. So we have to kind of massage the world around us, right?
Yeah, I think that that's a good way, you know. And for many of us with that nonlinear systems thinking, language is flexible, but it still doesn't encompass the way our brains And probably any human's brain experience the world is, you know, we need a slightly more linear way. And when we try and encompass as much nuance as we can in those linear things, it is less fluid, even if it sounds— yeah. And by the 17th revision, it's like, you know, it sounds good and it's not necessarily exactly that same spark from the first round.