by samfrida | Mar 14, 2026 | Blog
OK but now I’m done explaining. How nice would it be if neurotypicals got curious about neurodivergence the way we’re expected to study them just to survive a conversation? It’s tiring. The overexplaining. The translating yourself in real time for someone who isn’t...
by samfrida | Mar 10, 2026 | Blog
There are two kinds of people the world loves to compare. The first one stumbles. Makes mistakes. Maybe even falls hard enough to end up on the wrong side of a system that wasn’t built to forgive. But their soul is intact. They learn. They turn it around. They carry...
by samfrida | Mar 10, 2026 | Blog
I had a conversation with Claude today that I think is worth sharing. Not because it was extraordinary in the way people usually mean when they talk about AI, but because it got at something I’ve been thinking about for a while: where do I end and where does the tool...
by samfrida | Mar 10, 2026 | Blog
You don’t get to your why until you’ve had the knocks. At least that’s been my experience. It’s like peeling a carrot. Maybe not that thin. In my case, the layers have been thicker. Layers of life experiences where you’ve taken on everybody else’s narrative and made...
by samfrida | Mar 9, 2026 | Blog
There’s a quote by Grace Durbin that stopped me in my tracks: “People think you speak your own pain because you demand recognition and sympathy or you’re playing a victim. Rarely do they realize you speak your pain to save someone else from the demons in their own...
by samfrida | Mar 9, 2026 | Blog
There is nothing clean about unmasking. Nothing tidy or graceful about the moment you decide to stop performing and start speaking your truth. It is rough. It is raw. And it will cost you something. But here is what I have learned sitting in my own pause, doing the...
