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Where neurodivergent minds take flight and sensitive hearts adapt.

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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