How would my “diversity” give me strength? I am pretty monolithic inside of myself. I mean, obviously, one could say, that like all people, I do contain a multitudes I guess? But that is hardly special. Unles one is plural, it is hard to be “diverse” as an individual.

Did you perhaps mean “divergence from what is considered the norm”?

Yeah, there is absolutely nothing brilliant about my divergence. There is also nothing inherently bad about it. I am tired of the expectation to either treat it as a tragedy, or to use the fact of my difference as a selling point. I just am. I want to be allowed to be, and be safe.

I fix things for a living. I’m fairly good at my job because I can ignore the big picture and drill down on the specific problem that needs to be addressed. It also helps that I understand things best by fully understanding them - which is to say I like to know how things are built, so I can guess at their common failure points.

I’m very good at organising things and focusing for a long time once I get into something. However, the rest of us have quite different skill sets. Some of us are very honest and won’t be effected by others. Others are quite confident. and can pull off some amazing things!

I think I ended up with a far better grasp of my own internal environment than a neurotypical person just because of my inability to let inconsistencies go, you know? I couldn’t ignore things just because it’s convenient.

I also have slowly found out that I’m probably much more creative than the norm, because I misunderstood what “writer’s block” meant. I thought it was when you just … couldn’t bring yourself to write, but now I know it’s another thing entirely for many neurotypical people.

A blank page is no intimidation at all, provided I can align the spheres of the heavens towards motivation.