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If you’re here to…
Stop over-explaining yourself
Find the Just Right Words for how you’re built
Stop getting read as rude when you’re being direct
Say no without a long apology
Build a life that fits your Bird Brain
…then you’re in the just right place.
I had 40 jobs in 40 years before meeting my husband and embarking on the world’s longest honeymoon. I have won Employee of the Year as many times as I have been fired. That’s not a story about failure…it’s a story about agency and coherence that comes from doing most what I do best in the way that works best for my Bird Brain.
The core principle of my writing is “The Chooser gets to Choose…but only from the options that are actually visible and available to us in the moment. If I can’t choose no, then yes is not really an option.”
Neurosparklers spent decades building careers, relationships, families, businesses, creative lives, and elaborate workarounds before somebody finally handed us words like ADHD, autism, giftedness, twice exceptional, hyperlexia, gestalt processing, or AuDHD.
Some of those words explain an astonishing amount. They also tend to begin with a so called “late diagnosis” of what is supposedly wrong with us.
Everyone in this space asks what’s wrong with you. I ask how you’re built, and help you find the life that fits you.
Neurosparkler is the name I coined for my particular Bird Brain because there wasn’t another word for my particular set of Strengths, Temperament, Intellect, Quirks and Story.
If the word fits you, then it’s yours to use. If not, choose your own Just Right Word.
Once I started using the term Neurosparkler, thousands of other people said, “That’s what I’ve been trying to explain all this time.”
More than 10,000 people now follow along on TikTok. I spent seven years and millions of words building this framework, and I wrote the book on it: Through the Hummingbird’s Eye: A Neurosparkle Manifesto.
I’m not a doctor or a therapist, and nothing here is a diagnosis. It’s language built from my own lived experience. You decide if it fits. Unsubscribe any time if it doesn’t. Either way, I am glad you are here.
The Neurosparkle Newsletter: Every Sunday morning, you’ll get one email with:
The Just Right Word of the Week: the word, how to say it, and what it means
One piece of my writing, read right there in the email
A Gestalt of the Week - sometimes a song, sometimes a meme, sometimes a video - because there is always someone who said it better than me
My welcome email: It’s on its way to you right now.
See you in your inbox Sunday!
P.S. Want more right now? Watch me think out loud on TikTok at @askauntiepaige, and read the book that started it all, Through the Hummingbird’s Eye.