Life gets more interesting when you enjoy recognising each other’s character!

You can read the story of how I ended up, low over my own shortcomings, at a clinic that could visualise the state of my brain, here.

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Neurodivergence is genius — accepting yourself through the medical data (with video)
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I have been called “an idiot” for as long as I can remember. There are two versions of it: an affectionate “you idiot”, and the kind that unsettles me every time I hear it — “are you actually stupid?” Affectionate or full of malice, I have genuinely wondered myself why people call me that so often. And then, recently, caught up in exactly that question through a relationship, I ended up with medical data — an EEG reading — that showed I was, in fact, a genius. The backlash I felt after deciding to take this on and telling the world …

When I posted this diagnosis on social media, it got a huge response, and I was grateful for it — and also surprised at how many people out there are carrying the same kind of struggle.

Among the messages, one like this …

“My daughter, who I thought was a genius, turned out to have ADHD. As a child she could do absolutely anything, better than anyone — and now she struggles with sleep disorders, depression, addiction.”

A message from a parent raising a child with neurodevelopmental difference, just like me.
I wrote back to that parent with what I felt.

Rather than “I thought she was a genius, but it turned out to beADHD”,I think of it as “ADHDis genius — a gift from God” — and I believe that if more people came to see it that way, people carrying the same kind of difference could live a good deal more easily.

I hope that parent can take this in a positive light, even a little, and find some way to enjoy their child’s genius, even a small part of it.

Ways and forms of putting the genius trait I happened to find — commitment — to work

Hearing my story, a lot of friends around me have said “maybe I have it too.”

Some want to go to a clinic and find out for sure,but disability equals geniusis not quite that simple a story — what matters, I think, is how the person themselves takes the result, and whether they can see it in a positive light.

I have taken the fact of my own neurodevelopmental difference very positively, and I enjoy it by taking my strong commitments to their absolute limit.

So I choose to see neurodevelopmental difference as a gift from God, and I believe that enjoying your own character and recognising each other is simply what makes life fun, what lets you feel like a genius.

And I don’t think this is limited to people with neurodevelopmental difference at all.

Pursuing your own commitment to its absolute limit, and enjoying it completely

I think this is exactly how anyone, whatever character they have, can turn that character from a weakness into their strongest strength.

Then again, any good quality taken too far can turn into a flaw too, I suppose (laughs).

Forty-eight years alive, and I am still full of new realisations — which is exactly why I think life is so interesting.

Please keep backing this still-developing Komochan.
Thank you.