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About the Founder
I am a former pastor's daughter, as such my faith in God has played a large role in leading me to where I am now, starting Joys of Fidgeting.
As someone diagnosed as an adult in my 30s with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), something genetically inherited but was missed during my childhood due to not enough research or understanding of it during my childhood. I understand the struggle of having a brain that functions differently than others and not knowing that I struggled so much because neither I, my parents, my doctors, nor my teachers knew what specifically was the behind my lack of executive functioning skills, working memory loss, fidgetiness, hyperactivity, verbal and physical stimming etc. Now knowing what it was, I have been able to find tools and strategies that work with my brain type to help me be successful in life and in my career.
As somone who has multiple chronic infirmities (asthma, arthritis, fibromyalgia just to name a few of the more publicly palpable of the CVS pharmacy reciept length list that of the things "medically interesting" and "life-long" I deal with daily) my physical capability to function enough to do simple daily things fluctuate in how limited I am and what kind of accommodations or modifications I need in order to successfully do something as simple as open a bag of chips or wash a dish depending on which or which combination of chronic illnesses are flaring up at that moment. If both fibromyalgia is flaring up in one or both of my arms, and the carpol tunnel in my dominate arm acting up I may need a tool that I can slide across the bag with my non-dominate hand to open it as just pulling open the bag is too physically painful for me to manage. However if it's less one of the pain causing ailments and more of a muscle weakness causing ailment flaring up the scissors would be the tool I use to open the bag of chips, and I might need to sit on a tall stool to do dishes. Or I may need a short stool to put groceries in the fridge or pantry.
These struggles with my own limitations help me as an educator better understand the physical limitations of my students with chronic illnesses and other types of disabilities and can better recognize what possible tools to try to help them maintain or gain independence in doing simple daily tasks.
In my career as an educator, I aspire to pay attention to and recognize the needs of my students, their parents/guardians, and my colleagues so that we may work together as a team to provide the tools and use the strategies best suited to help each student achieve academic and life success. So that the students won't have to struggle without the tools they need to work with their brain type and physical limitations.
Prior to my diagnosis for ADHD and most of my chronic infirmities, I worked as a babysitter, a retail sales clerk and cashier; an HOA assistant; an HOA, escrow, and realstate file clerk; an escrow receptionist, and an entrepreneur. Some of these were volunteer job, some temp jobs, and some freelance. In my time as a undiagnosed and chronically ill employee I struggled to keep up with tasks assigned to me despite working to the best of my ability as I didn't have the tools I needed and neither I nor my employers knew what was causing my struggle in order to know what tools I needed to be a successful, productive, and efficient employee. I was eager and ready to learn, receptive to feedback and constructive criticism; but no matter how much I tried either as a student in school or as an employee in the workplace, prior to diagnoses, I always failed and came up short of the expectations required of me.
However once God lead me to a new school with an employer who took the time to discuss with me not only the patterns he saw in my struggle but also how he recognized those same patterns and struggles in other employees who had been diagnosed with some of the same things I have since been diagnosed with, and was provided by my supervisors and allowed to provide for myself tools, accommodations, and modifications that work with my brain and limitations, I became a successful employee thriving in every position within the school they asked of me whether it was as an aide, a cook in the cafeteria, a custodian, a hall monitor, a substitute, a carline traffic director, school mascot, dance coach, or greeter during our open houses and parent nights.
Now having learned the importance of recognizing my own needs and the needs of those I have a degree of authority over, and when to use what tools, I have founded Joys of Fidgeting to provide the education, tools, and strategies to help others learn these same things without having to struggle as long or as hard as I have had to do throughout my life.
My desire in starting this company is to make access to upto date accurate information, tips, tricks, and tools needed to best use to accommodate or modify specific tasks at home, at work, and at school easier and affordable for everyone everywhere as much as I and my team here at Joys of Fidgeting are able and entrusting God to work miracles in the ways we are not able.
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