My life has been a path of discovery . Learning that I learn differently than most people . Learning the strategies that work for me . Oddly that gave me a skill of blessing that I learned how to hack systems ethically it optimize my chances of success. Learning that I’m neuro divergent in many ways allowed me to adopt strategies in academia and the corporate world that worked for me that were “ unusual” and “ creative” we me just trying to get things to work for me. Thinking different was earlier in life a burden and later my superpower. You have your ways . I have to find or create my way. I wonder if this is true of our community in general . For example during my freshman year of college I found I thought best wasting headphones playing music that my mind put in the background so I could focus . I needed noise to focus not that I paid attention to it. I needed it to focus which is a conscious act for me . I can be anywhere and not be mentally resent there as my mind works on ideas.