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Where neurodivergent minds take flight and sensitive hearts adapt.

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  • 🧡 When You Grow Up Afraid to Ask for Anything

    By Kevin | BrainButterfly.org When you grow up afraid to ask for anything, you don’t become low-maintenance. You become emotionally malnourished. You learn to swallow your needs before anyone else can reject them. You learn to smile through discomfort and apologize for existing. You become the “easy one,” the “good kid,” the “quiet helper.” And…

  • 🦋 We’re Not Wired to Follow

    By Kevin | BrainButterfly.org They called it disobedience. I now know it was a nervous system trying to survive. They said I had a bad attitude. But I was masking fear, confusion, and overwhelm. They punished me for asking questions. Now I teach my kids that curiosity is courage. Growing up neurodivergent in a world…