Stop apologizing for how your mind works.
Start naming what Neurosparklers have always known but never had words for. Until now.
Some things can't be understood.
But they can be recognized with the Just Right Words.
A weekly publication for Neurosparklers and the Nearlynormies who love us but can't understand how we see it/It/IT.
A Space For Speaking Freely about Thinking Brilliantly
One Just Right Word every week. No spam, ever.
A Framework for Seeing "It"
The Bird Brain Johari Window
Four ways of seeing. Four birds. Four weeks. One conversation.
“For a Neurosparkler, Living the Dream means being able to use the Just Right Words to speak our minds without having to over-explain ourselves every damn time.”
The core promise of Vision Quest LTD
A Space For Speaking Freely about Thinking Brilliantly
Who This Is For
You've spent your whole life
translating yourself
for everyone else.
And they still can't understand you.
You've always known your brain works differently. But you never felt like you fit under the labels used to diagnose you as disordered. Neurosparkle is not another name for neurodivergence. It is a different way of thinking about thinking differently.
You've adapted brilliantly. But being an unconventional high achiever has a cost and you've been paying it in silence.
The dream for a Neurosparkler is being able to use the Just Right Words that say what we mean without having to “over-explain” ourselves every damn time.
That's what the Neurosparkle Newsletter gives you: a room where your native language is already spoken fluently. With concise translation for the Nearlynormies who love us, should they choose to learn more.
The Rabbit Hole Roadmap is a free 90-minute introduction to Get to No University, the four-week cohort where the Cognitively Complicated Conundrums learn how to recognize what cannot be understood…
And finally prove that not every conundrum is a problem that needs to be solved!
The Neurosparkler
Exponentially capable. Exhausted from translating.
You've always known things before you could explain them. You process the whole picture at once, feel more than you can say, and have been told your whole life that you're too much and not enough, often in the same breath.
By the people who love you most.
You've finally discovered that you are not broken. You were just in the wrong room speaking the right language.
The Nearlynormie
You love a Neurosparkler. You can't understand them but you desperately want to.
You're probably not the problem but you always take the blame.
You're missing the vocabulary to explain what you can't see. This newsletter gives you the Just Right Words to recognize, not decode, the person you love.
Understanding isn't required. Recognition is.
Introducing Get to No University
Critical Thinking and Communication Literacy for Cognitively Complicated Conundrums
STIQS, not Symptoms.
Learn to Think Differently about Thinking Differently
Typical neurodivergence language focuses on diagnostic symptoms, traits, idiosyncrasies, and quirks as a means for identifying what is wrong with us.
But for unconventional high achievers, those same descriptors are what makes us brilliant when we are allowed to optimize for our own operating system.
STIQS rethinks the words we use to understand what makes Neurosparklers and Nearlynormies different without pathologizing or diagnosing each other.
Strengths
What you do effortlessly that exhausts everyone else. Not your résumé strengths. Your cognitive architecture.
Temperament
The operating temperature of your nervous system. Why some environments are fuel and others are friction.
Intellect
The speed and shape of your thinking. That was never a deficit in attention. It is a difference in processing.
Quirks
The features that were called flaws. The things you apologized for before you had the Just Right Words for what they actually are.
Story
The narrative you’ve been living inside. We don’t just name what you are. We help you see how you got here, and choose where you go next.
The Rabbit Hole Roadmap:
A webinar for people who see "it" differently
The Foundational Principle
The Chooser Gets to Choose
The foundational principle of Get to No University. Learn the difference between what is a choice and what is simply how you are built.
The One Question That Changes Everything
Am I the Chooser of what you wish I would change?
Get to No University
A foolproof formula
for failing fabulously.
Get to No University is not a course. It's a cognitive operating system built by a Neurosparkler, for Neurosparklers and the Nearlynormies who are willing to learn a new language.
We don't teach you how to succeed by someone else's definition. We teach you how to identify the difference between what is a choice and what is simply how you are built, and design a life that fits your cognitive operating system.
What you'll stop doing after the first month:
- Apologizing for how your mind works
- Explaining yourself before you're allowed to speak
- Translating your experience into Nearlynormie-safe language
- Treating your operating system like a character flaw
- Asking whether you're too much
- Waiting for someone else to give you permission to be recognized
The Four Rooms of the Bird Brain…Currently Under Construction
By the Book
A serial story told by the Queen Bee of Quincy Bay.
READ
Get to No University
A curriculum for the cognitively complicated.
LEARN
Just Right Words
One word every week. The Auntie-Dictionary.
LOOK IT UP
Vision Quest, LTD
Async musings from an Auntie's-Eye-View.
MUSE
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