Your Brain Isn’t Broken

It’s Running Advanced Software While Everyone Else Uses Basic Processors.

That perfect planner you bought last month? The one that was finally going to fix your “scattered” thinking? I bet it’s sitting in a drawer right now with all the others. The graveyard of systems that were supposed to make you normal.

I know that feeling. The one where your mind connects twelve different ideas while everyone else is still processing the first one. Where you solve your biggest problems while thinking about something completely different. Where your best ideas explode at 3 AM while the rest of the world sleeps.

Society calls that scattered. Unfocused. ADHD.

I call it advanced pattern recognition firing at full power.

Here’s what nobody tells you about that “scattered” brain of yours: It’s not scattered at all. It’s processing in parallels. In patterns. In possibilities that most people’s brains can’t even detect yet.

You’re not broken. You’re running different software.

The Moment Everything Changed

At 19, I sat in my advisor’s office trying to explain how someone with a 4.0 GPA could crash so spectacularly in Probability 201. My explanation? “I didn’t think I needed to go to class because I always just… got it.”

Narrator: I did not, in fact, “get it.”

That moment kicked off a decade of almost success: launching businesses I abandoned when they got boring, ghosting clients when new projects looked shinier, buying every productivity tool ever made on Kickstarter.

Then at 42, everything changed. Three words from a doctor’s office hit me like a freight train: “You have ADHD.”

But here’s the thing: I wasn’t relieved. I was pissed. Pissed because I spent decades thinking I was broken, when really I was just running different software than everyone else.