By Kevin | BrainButterfly.org
Founder, BrainButterfly™ & ADHDChildFund™
Let’s talk about English.
Specifically: who invented this language, and why did they clearly despise neurodivergent people.
“I before E, except after C.”
Great. Thanks.
Except for:
weird height neighbor foreign their science
OH. So basically:
“Here’s a rule. Just kidding — the rule doesn’t work.”
Let’s keep going, shall we?
Silent letters: knee, knife, knock. Why? WHY. Words that look the same, sound different: read / read, lead / lead, wind / wind. Words that sound the same, mean different things: there, their, they’re. to, too, two. pair, pare, pear.
My neurodivergent brain: “Error 404. Logic not found.”
And then you get punished for not “sounding it out.”
You’re sitting there, a kid in school,
sensory system overloaded,
nervous system on high alert,
and they’re like:
“Sound it out! Just follow the rules!”
Buddy, THE RULES DON’T EVEN FOLLOW THE RULES.
No wonder half of us ran straight for math, science, or assembly instructions —
anywhere the pattern held.
Give me a LEGO manual over Shakespeare ANY DAY.
But here’s the kicker:
We may laugh at it now, but it broke some of us back then.
It told us we were lazy, dumb, or slow —
when in reality, our brains were just too sharp
to tolerate nonsense.
We crave:
✅ patterns,
✅ clarity,
✅ definitive rights and wrongs.
And when the system offers us none of that?
We rebel.
We shut down.
We make jokes like:
“Who invented this language — some drunken neurotypical?” (lol, I joke… kind of).
Final truth?
We’re not broken for struggling with this system.
We’re brilliant for surviving it.
So to all my fellow neurodivergent thinkers:
You are not stupid.
You are not lazy.
You are a survivor of bad design.
And I am with you, laughing, ranting, rebuilding, and breaking the cycle. 💥🌀
© 2025 Kevin Sarasin | BrainButterfly™ & ADHDChildFund™
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