Managing a Hyper-Connected Brain with Executive Functioning Challenges

Managing a HYPER-CONNECTED BRAIN with Executive Challenges is no easy trick ---

• God knows the help from the Society could be a whole lot better than it is.

 

• Categories help us make sense of the world.

 

• Further --- there are "sex differences."

 

• Now by and large --- this is becoming problematic for both MEN and WOMEN ---

 

• These are extreme examples --- but I think there can be some illumination even though this is often more complicated.
• Einstein we got as an absent-minded professor -- after a fashion.
• Temple Grandin we get --- now.
• Edith Bunker from Norman Lear's "All in the Family" --- the "Dingbat" --- do we get her?
• Gracie Allen from the '40s --- do we get her?
• What about Kendrick Lamar? --- Some people do --- and some people don't.
• Elon Musk?
• Selena Gomez?      
  

Big Strengths and Executive Functioning Challenges are playing out in a complicated SOCIAL DYNAMIC.

• When we've got a visual cue like a Physical Disability such as epilepsy, lupus, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, etc.
• We often can accommodate/work around Executive Functioning Issues sometimes a little easier --
• because we're already "ON NOTICE" that there are some differences.
  

Mutual Benefit

It can be hugely problematic not only for OTHERS but also for the PERSON themselves to recognize Executive Functioning Differences if there are not obvious Physical Differences ---

• Although New York writer Fran Lebowitz maintains we all have at least 17 body flaws.

On top of this we have CATEGORIES in the DSM 5 that are identifying SOME PEOPLE ----

• and MISSING A LOT OF OTHERS.

Well who wants a LABEL? 

• Well -- as YouTube's Neuro-Divergent Rebel points out --- nobody until ---
  • you're getting an even less flattering label.

YouTube is full of Neuro-Divergent 30 and 40 somethings who are OUTING THEMSELVES with their Executive Functioning Differences ---

• because the challenges of the Society have become EXCRUCIATINGLY DIFFICULT.
• Further, it is clear most of these people have BIG TIME STRENGTHS and they want to engage in a DIALOGUE for MUTUAL BENEFIT.