Annie is 30 years and old and eager to gain blogging experience. She’s also an aspiring artist learning to make jewelry and other crafts with the hopes of one day sharing her creations with the world online. Annie’s a hard worker and is always there for her family, whether it’s helping out around the house or just curling up on the couch with them and their pets for some relaxation and bonding. You can always count on her to quote movie lines just to make you laugh or to learn new recipes to share delicious food and baked goods with you.
View all postsNeurodivergent And What Is It?
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Hello and welcome to the start of 2026. Before I get into the topic of neurodivergent, I want to say something. It has been a while since I have written a blog post. I have decided that I am going to write only 4 blogs a year because I need time to think about what I am going to write, and I want to be able to grab the reader’s attention. Lately it feels like my posts are repetitive and I don’t want that. I love writing and it’s been a dream to be a published writer where everyone reads what I talk about. Writing to me is a passion. It was meant to be enjoyed so I decided to take some time going into deep thoughts about what I want to discuss with other people. Now I am going to get back to the post.
Last month on December 3rd was Persons with Developmental Disabilities Day and I was asked questions about what it meant to have autism and how I felt about it. Well, I don’t use the term developmental disability. Instead, I call it being neurodivergent because autism falls under that similar term. Has anyone ever heard of the term neurodivergent? If not, I am going to discuss what it is. Let me start by saying that being neurodivergence can happen at birth and before the age of 22. It’s when one’s own brain functions and processes things that are typical or standard. It all has to do with the way the brain processes information and how one behaves and functions. People in the neurodivergent community might see the world in a different way than other people. Autism and ADHD are just some of the conditions that fall under this term but neurodivergent is not a diagnosis itself.
There are certain challenges and strengths that come with being part of this group. Let me start with the positives. One positive would be that they are gifted with talents ranging from art to technology. They can have strong interests in things that they are passionate about and can go on talking about them for a while. I know for a fact that I am gifted with passions like baking. I like crafting but I do better in the kitchen. The challenges with being neurodivergent are being easily distracted during tasks, memorizing things, and sensory overload. They could be hypo or hypersensitive to things like light, sounds, certain textures, and smells. From my own experience, I have always had an issue with bright lights on my face. When I was a baby, I would cover my face with a blanket to block the light from hitting my face. In the case of sounds, loud noises have always bothered me. That’s why I don’t go to concerts or the movie theater. To this day those things still bother me and will continue to do so. I have memory issues in the sense that I tend to forget things that I need to get when I go somewhere like the store or when I need to take my medication. I can remember the tasks I need to complete but when it comes to doing simple things, that’s where I forget the most. I am going to be honest with everyone on something and that being part of the neurodivergent community can be hard sometimes, although not so bad. If there was one thing I could get rid of, it would be my repetitive behaviors and my sensory issues. There are times when I wish I didn’t have those problems but hey, what can you do about it? You have them for the rest of your life. You can’t eradicate the things you cannot alleviate. You are who you are no matter what.
What I want the world to know is that I am not ashamed about my disability despite some of the things that go with it. Over time, it took me a while to embrace and accept it. I have come to acknowledge the fact that my struggles with autism will never go away no matter how bad I want them to. I can’t change who I am for anyone in the world. Being part of the neurodivergent community is who I am. It’s not all bad and nothing to be embarrassed about. The good thing is that it doesn’t stop you from living a good, decent life. There may be some limitations to being disabled like not being able to drive but it’s not all negative. I can’t drive but I get around just fine. Also, what I would like to add to all of this is that I am not offended by being labeled as having a developmental disability pertaining to my autism because I have known for a while that that’s what I am. It took me a long time to grasp the concept of being disabled because I didn’t want to see myself as that.
To wrap up this blog post, I would like to say that the reason I chose to talk about being neurodivergent and what made it come to mind is because I feel that people should know a little bit about that group and what it’s like being and living this way. I felt that not a whole lot of people know what it is or how it feels to cope with the issues it comes with. I felt that it was important to talk about it in this post so other people can learn something about it so they know all about it. In my honest opinion, if there were more resources out there to educate the public on the matter, maybe it would make a world of a difference. I hope whoever reads this post will learn something about this.
Annie Snow
