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

Wait, Your Brain is Actually QUIET?! 🧠 #Neurodiversity #Shorts

23 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this short conversational video, two speakers discuss their personal experiences of the mind’s activity during the transition between wakefulness and sleep. Speaker A asks her husband what he thinks about when he falls asleep, receiving a response of "nothing" and prompting curiosity about the sensation of a "black and quiet" mind. Speaker B expands on the idea, describing a frequent in‑between state where the brain feels accelerated rather than slowed, prompting a cascade of thoughts. The dialogue then shifts to a broader reflection on neurodiversity, emphasizing that each individual's brain operates uniquely—both across neurodivergent and neurotypical people—highlighting the beauty of this diversity and rejecting the notion of a single, uniform brain experience.

I had said to my husband, I said, like, what do you think about when you go to sleep? And he goes, nothing. I was like, what do you mean nothing? Like, it's just like black and quiet? He goes, yeah. I went, what the hell does that feel like?
Yeah. I mean, there's even the, what do you think about while you're asleep? And whilst I realize, well, you're not actually asleep, you're dreaming, but there is that. Well, I mean, I certainly get this a lot. We are definitely going off on a tangent now, but bear with me while I go down the rabbit hole. I have that kind of like in-between sleep and awake thing, which is fairly frequent, to be honest with you, where my brain speeds up, doesn't slow down. It kind of goes, right, how many more things can we think about now? Why is it doing that? Anyway.
Yeah, yeah. But it is interesting, first of all, to think about how our brains are different and how they function different. And even still, your brain will function slightly different than mine anyway, regardless of diagnosis, right? Part of Part of the beauty of, of our neurodiverse piece is that we are diverse. It's not the same. It's not a copy and paste. And even neurotypicals, they're going to be a little different between each other as well. We are in fact unique, which is fantastic.
I think that's so unbelievably important because there are a lot of folks within the community that have kind of jumped on a little bit like in the coaching community, where if you go back a year or two, it became the big buzzword to start throwing the words trauma-informed around without really even understanding what trauma-informed meant, let alone actually being so.