Neurodivergent Positives:

• Powerful radar for authenticity, dishonesty, and intuition
• Intense curiosity
• Inventive perspectives & original ideas
• Multiple creative diverse skill sets
• Adventurous
• Multiple well-versed interests
• Passionate enthusiasm
• Hard-earned resilience: navigating a world not built for their brains
• Quick witted
• Strong sense of justice and equality, fairness: People with ADHD frequently notice rules, or power dynamics being violated much faster and more acutely than neurotypical peers
• Strong sense of fairness
• Loyal fierce empathetic friends
• Spontaneous spirit to bring warmth, fun, and excitement to life
• Deep empathy (marginalized groups, animals) - even guilt with stuffed animals, inanimate objects
• Feels things deeply
• Unusually good at seeing the big picture
• Problem solver
• Very responsive to new things and experiences
• Creative
• Incredibly empathetic
• Hyper engagement and focus (but not on other things)
• Willing to question conventional wisdom
• Heightened Emotional Processing: Neurodivergent brains often process sensory input and emotions with greater intensity, leading to a profound connections and experiences with art, especially music, film, etc.
• Patter recognition: can predict movies, observe the slightest behavior changes, sees visual and behavioral patterns, connect things in bigger picture, can predict what people will say - finish sentences.