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I profess, I'm an ideas guy. I do genuinely want to be a better executor, but I find it difficult to get myself to focus when I sit down to do things. I've come to think maybe I just really don't like technical work, but I've put so much time and effort into my career at this point it's a hard pill to swallow

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Is it possible you have a neuro-distinct brain?

(Being up-front: When I came to this post, I expected to see a higher-than-average percentage of people with neuro-distinct brains)

This term bothers me. Isn't every single human neuro-distinct? Everyone deviates from the average/the norm in some way.

If you mean Asperger's/autism, that's a specific thing, and I would be happy to think there's lots of them/us here.

To be honest the language bothers me as well, and despite hundreds of conversations I have not yet found the words that say all three of “we’re joined in our humanity”, “differences are valuable as we (societies) need a variety of strengths to make strong teams”, and “no one can be presumed to be anything because of a label”

Setting aside the issues with that term, yes. I've been diagnosed with adhd, Asperger's, and half of every neurosis one ever heard of although I try not to take those labels as an identity.

But yeah, in many different phases in life I've been the "huge potential, needs to put in the hard work" person. It gets old

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