society – Musings – An Endeavour to writing

When I watched All the Bright Places, I didn’t just see a film—I saw a mirror. It reminded me how differently neurodivergent and neurotypical people experience the world.

Too often, success is measured by visible milestones: grades, jobs, promotions, social achievements. Neurotypical people may believe that with enough motivation, encouragement, or love, anyone can “fix” their struggles. But neurodivergence is not a wound to be healed—it is a way of being.

Take trauma as an example. Many assume that once the threat is gone, recovery should be quick. “Enough time has passed, why aren’t you better yet?” But healing doesn’t follow a neat timeline. Safety outside doesn’t always mean safety inside.

For neurodivergent individuals, progress often looks different: managing anxiety, finding joy in small routines, surviving another day. These victories are quieter, less visible, but no less important.

Some truths stand out sharply:

Different is not broken.
Love is not a cure, it is a bridge.
Healing is not about time passed, but about safety felt.
The world is not one size fits all—it is many sizes, many shapes, many colors.

Films like All the Bright Places remind us of the loneliness of being misunderstood, but also the possibility of connection when someone truly listens. They challenge us to rethink what we call “normal” and to recognize that every mind experiences the world in its own way.

So I leave this thought open-ended: Can we learn to see difference not as failure, but as another way of being human?

Scientifically, the Sun never sets. Sunset is an illusion. We buy it for the human experience. We let it soak in our memory. We admire its beauty. In other words, the experience here super seeds the logic.
What if, one day you wake up and you are told the world is all changed? Everything you thought was you were incorrect. You have no identity. You are left wondering who you are. This is a dangerous place to be, for most of what we think we are, is a role played by the ego. It tries to keep us safe. When we no longer connect with it, whatever we are not, it shun. Like chaff from the rice. What remains is truth. Ego gives us resistance, it numbs us. It gets wounded and reacts. Once we understand it, we can see it is trying to protect us and in this effort to maintain safety at all times, still, we end up paying a big price.
Most of the time we don’t know that we don’t know. We assume based on our conditioning. We rarely challenge our thinking to know why we think, what we think, because, we are taught it is insane. We are taught to live by “worldly ways”. However, so-called normal is what the majority of people do. It doesn’t necessarily mean it is correct. If we are unable to distinguish what is taught to us and what we feel, we can’t possibly know ourselves fully. If we don’t know ourselves, then we can’t possibly know our core values. If we don’t know our values, how can we live them? If we don’t live according to our values then who’s life are we living?
Let’s wake up and check are we living someone else’s life? Today, we might be experiencing the dark night, however, if we commit to working towards our authenticity, we will soon behold an experience of a beautiful sunrise!

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Different is not broken

Living someone else’s life?