SAM Frida

Unfiltered – ish

To the Parents Who Play Favorites

To the Parents Who Play Favorites

If you choose one child over the other, hear this clearly. You are not just picking a favorite. You are teaching the child who goes unseen and unheard that they are not worth loving. That lesson does not stay contained to childhood. It follows them. Watch what happens...

Accountability Is the Real Thing

Accountability Is the Real Thing

Scott Clary, host of the Success Story podcast, posted something worth sitting with: accountability is a gift almost nobody wants to receive. People resent it in the moment. Give it anyway, he argues, because either they come around later or they don't, but you told...

Not Giving A F***K

Not Giving A F***K

To all the narratives that didn’t serve me well! Lyrics and tune ….I love ..and today it just felt right… https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZp34SdMJ8B/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== https://youtu.be/DpTINvGsnOY?is=txX3hNVQmV_rW_9P

The Cost of Being Understood

The Cost of Being Understood

I am tired of people who call themselves typical because they have never once had to imagine living any other goddamn way. If you are neurodivergent, AuDHD or otherwise, you already know the deal nobody wrote down anywhere. You learn their language first. You study...

The Myth of the Broken Brain

The Myth of the Broken Brain

Today is Neurodiversity Pride Day. I’m not going to celebrate it with a listicle of Famous People Who Were Probably Autistic. That’s not the point. The point is this: different is not deficient. There is a framing problem baked into how most organizations, most...

Writing on the Wall

Writing on the Wall

When the people building the most powerful technology in human history start buying the silence of those meant to govern it, we should all be paying attention. Most of us aren't. John O'Farrell left Andreessen Horowitz in May. He was the firm's first outside general...

Words Without Weight

Words Without Weight

On the people who say all the right things, yet mean almost none of them. Some of us take words literally. When you say you will do something, we file it as a fact. Not a maybe. Not a social nicety. A commitment. A real thing that is going to happen. There are more of...