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🧠🦋 About — BrainButterfly, HeartChameleon Site Author: Kevin Sarasin ADHD Father. Advocate. Coach. Neurodivergent AF. ⸻ 🦋 Welcome to the Nest Hey, I’m Kevin — a dad, neurodivergent advocate, ADHD coach, and someone who’s had to fight damn hard to be understood in a world that doesn’t slow down for people like me… or my son. This space is personal. It’s emotional. It’s built from lived experience, systemic failures, and the kind of pain that turns into purpose. BrainButterfly, HeartChameleon is more than a blog — it’s a nest for nervous systems like ours. ⸻ 💡 Why I Started This Blog I started this after my son Nash — 7 years old, neurodivergent, bright as the sun — was stabbed at school. Stabbed. And even after everything we’d tried to do right… the system failed him. Again and again. He was bullied, dismissed, emotionally injured, and misunderstood. He was masked, silenced, and told to be someone he’s not. And I saw myself in him. Every day. So this blog was born. 🧡 To share our story. 🧠 To connect with others who are living it. ✊ To advocate for change — in schools, in families, and in society. We are not wired to follow. We are born leaders. We think for ourselves. We were never the problem — we’re just not algorithm-brained like the rest of the world. ⸻ 💬 What You’ll Find Here • Real stories about ADHD, masking, trauma, and parenthood • Tools for families navigating the education system • Resources on emotional processing and generational healing • A raw, no-BS look at what it means to raise — and be — a neurodivergent soul • A space for you to feel less alone ⸻ 🦎 BrainButterfly. HeartChameleon. Our brains are like butterflies: slow processors, fast thinkers, deeply intuitive. Our hearts are like chameleons: adaptive, reactive, sensitive to emotional temperature. This brand is built around a truth many of us live every day: We are not “too much.” We are processing in a world that rarely gives us space to do so.
🔌 The Edison Gene: Why ADHD Isn’t a Disorder — It’s a Leadership Code

🔌 The Edison Gene: Why ADHD Isn’t a Disorder — It’s a Leadership Code

By Kevin | BrainButterfly.org

“We’re born leaders. We’re not wired to follow. We think for ourselves.”

That’s not dysfunction. That’s design.

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When people think of ADHD, they usually think of:

Chaos Disruption Trouble

A label stamped onto a child’s file to explain why they don’t sit still, why they question everything, why they can’t fit the mold.

But here’s the truth — some of us weren’t built to fit molds.

Some of us were built to break them.

And that’s where the Edison Gene comes in.

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💡 What Is the Edison Gene?

Coined by author Thom Hartmann, the “Edison Gene” is based on the idea that some children — like Thomas Edison — are hardwired for innovation, leadership, and unconventional thinking.

They aren’t broken.

They’re brilliant — but only if they’re seen for who they really are.

These are the kids who:

Build with what they have, not what they’re told to use Ask “why?” when others say “because I said so” Dream big, feel deeply, move fast Can’t be tamed by quiet classrooms or one-size-fits-all systems

Sound familiar?

That’s exactly what both of my sons embody.

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👦 My Sons Have the Edison Gene

They’re bright.

They’re intense.

They’re wild and wise in ways the world doesn’t always understand.

They’re both neurodivergent. They’ve been failed by institutions meant to protect them.

But they continue to lead — not because they’re told to, but because they were born to.

One of them says with full sparkle and pride:

“Who has two thumbs and loves hockey? THIS guy.”

The other carries a quiet fire, asking deep questions and observing the world with eyes that see far more than most adults ever notice.

When they’re underestimated?

They rise.

When they’re told to shrink?

They expand.

I used to worry the world would crush their spirit.

Now I build around that spirit — because they’re not just my sons.

They’re the reason this movement exists.

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🧠 ADHD Isn’t a Deficit — It’s a Different Operating System

What if ADHD isn’t a disorder?

What if it’s simply the wrong environment for the right kind of brain?

People with the Edison Gene aren’t disordered.

They’re divergent.

They’re emotionally rich, justice-driven, innovation-fueled problem solvers.

And when supported instead of shamed?

They don’t just survive.

They transform the world.

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💬 What We Believe at BrainButterfly

At BrainButterfly, this is our mission:

To build a world where ADHD is recognized as a leadership code, not a diagnosis To fight for every child like mine who’s been silenced, punished, or pushed aside To support the parents, educators, and neurodivergent adults doing the healing work now

We’re not here to tame butterflies.

We’re here to watch them fly.

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🙌 Join the BrainButterfly Movement

Whether you’re:

Raising a neurodivergent child Carrying trauma in your nervous system Or just realizing you were never “broken” — you were different for a reason…

This is your space.

🧠✨ Follow. Share. Support the mission.

And remember:

You’re not broken.

You’re wired for something bigger.

You’ve got the Edison Gene.

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Kevin Sarasin  

Founder | Butterfly Baseball & ADHDChildFund™  

📍 Brantford, Ontario  

📧 adhdchildfund@gmail.com  

🌀 https://gofund.me/1bcff5b3  

“Different wiring. Same love of the game.”

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