10 Things You Might Need To Know Today
Description
You were not built wrong. The world was just not built for you.
10 Things You Might Need to Hear Today is a collection of thoughts and quotes for neurodivergent minds - written not from the outside looking in, but from the middle of it. From lived experience. From nearly two decades of relational practice. From raising kids, caring for a disabled mother, and watching the people she loves burn out under the weight of a world that keeps calling their differences a problem.
Organized in three parts - The Cost (capacity, nervous system, sensory), Here's Why (harm, systems, power), and What Do We Do (reclamation, care, community) - this book meets you wherever you are. One thought per page. No overwhelm. No performance required.
This is a book you can open on a hard day and find exactly what you needed someone to say.
Sam Nelson is a writer, hairstylist, and creator of Neurodivergent, Not Broken. She questions the social norms and structures that turn people's differences into a problem - and she does it from the inside.