Neurodivergent People Are Here to Save the World

Neurodivergent People Are Here to Save the World

If you’ve ever been told you’re too sensitive, too much, too intense, or that you just don’t fit neatly into the box—this one’s for you. Because what if all the ways you’ve felt "too much" are actually the exact gifts the world needs right now? 

Let me do a little neurodivergent digression here for a moment….

Last month, the newsletter went out with a major typo in it.

I normally write the content and my VA formats the newsletters and then I look at them once again before we sent them out.  Well… I didn’t do that, and there were some general newsletter prompts left in the body of the email, and my first response was embarrassment and shame. But then, I was wanted to scream, My magic is not in the details! My magic is not in typo-free emails…. And here’s to also deconstructing perfectionism. 

Anyhoozle…. 

Neurodivergent people—autistic folks, ADHDers, sensory seekers, deep feelers, divergent thinkers, gifted folks—aren’t here to conform or continue the ways of the old paradigm. We’re here to wake things up.

We are wired to notice what others miss. We feel the subtle shifts in energy. We take in more information, we process deeply, we don’t let things slide under the rug. While that can be overwhelming in a world that’s obsessed with speed, linearity, and sameness—it’s also a kind of superpower in a world desperate for reconnection, depth, and radical change.

We are porous. Our nervous systems pick up on more—sights, sounds, feelings, injustice. That porosity can feel like a burden in a culture that pathologizes sensitivity—but what if it’s actually a key to collective healing? What if our sensitive bodies are instruments for awakening?

In studies involving monkies, when the most sensitive monkies die, it puts the whole group at risk. 

Some of us came in with a thin veil—easily attuned to the spiritual, the mystical, the in-between. There’s a reason so many neurodivergent people describe early experiences of interconnectedness, energy, or intuition. We often see things from multiple angles at once. We move fluidly between perspectives. That’s not indecision or confusion—that’s wisdom.

Here is an awesome podcast entitled, Neurodivergent People are Wired for Spiritual Awakening which I just found fascinating and validating. 

I also recently discovered The Telepathy Tapes, a podcast that chronicles how non-speaking autistic folks are communicating telepathically with one another. It’s stunning—and honestly, not surprising. It affirms what many neurodivergent people already know in our bones: that our minds don’t work against us, they work differently. And sometimes, beautifully beyond. We are opening new portals to communication, connection, and consciousness.

Neurodivergence is not a problem to fix—it’s a frequency to tune into. A way of being that is urgently needed as we collectively reimagine a world beyond capitalism, perfectionism, and disconnection.

Neurodivergent people are often:

• Unwilling to tolerate injustice or cruelty (even if it's normalized)
• Incapable of small talk when the big talk is begging to happen
• Deeply creative, intuitive, and spiritually curious
• Builders of new systems because the old ones never made sense
• Radically loving in ways the world isn’t always ready for

We are not broken. We are bringers of the new world.

To all my fellow divergent souls: I see you. You’ve always been enough. You’ve never been too much. You are a vital part of the shift toward a more compassionate, connected, and conscious humanity.

Even if you don’t identify as being “neurospicy,” you are here to pull the arc closer to love, justice, equity, and beauty.  When I told my son the name of this newsletter was going to be “Neurodivergent People Are Here to Save the World,” he said, “We are all here to save the world.” So please take that and run with it as well.

And if you want to keep exploring the intersection of trauma healing, nervous system wisdom, and the ways we reclaim our wholeness (especially as neurodivergent beings), check out my book Always Enough, Never Done and come find me on Instagram. Let’s keep building this brave new world together.