For a start, you’re unique and interesting.

You’ll start to notice that, as people get older, they become stereotypes and tropes—and it’s boring.

It’s uninteresting.

It’s unattractive.

You don’t want to stay in a relationship with that. It’s superficial.

Look at how popular a guy was recently—the one who liked trainspotting. He’d get all excited watching trains. Look how popular he became—because who else is doing that? Almost no one.

To be unique in a world of eight billion people is actually a pretty incredible feat.

And when you’ve got ADHD or autism, you are going to be unique.

As long as you’re okay with it, other people will actually find it interesting. Not everybody—but the right kind of people for you.

You’ll also be socially intuitive in a way most people aren’t—because you’ve spent so much time trying to understand people, so much time reading them.

Whereas everyone else just got along assuming they were liked, assuming everything was fine. They didn’t have to learn to read other people.

This is why I think there’s so much autism and ADHD in the psychology and arts fields—because we spent so much time worrying about what other people think, that we actually figured out what they’re thinking.

Now we can use that as a strength.

A lot of you can be refreshingly honest, vulnerable—even brutally honest with your feedback.

There are certain people, in certain situations, who are desperate for that.

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