Permission to Speak – A luxury for all women, forbidden for Neurodivergents…

Speaking freely, expressing ourselves, communicating our needs are one of the most basic human rights. Other than biological needs, a healthy and needed self-expression is crucial for sustaining a functioning mental state. How come this basic survival need become the most overlooked crime we are all guilty of committing at some level?

One of the first things we all learned at school was to raise our hand if we wanted to speak. Even if we knew the right answer, we had to be picked by the teacher before we uttered words.

What if I told you that in this huge classroom of approximately 7 billion pupils, the teacher bypasses the ones with the raised hands? If you are waiting to speak up with your arm feeling tired, good luck!

This teacher is so very different than the ones we had in small classrooms. You are expected to speak without having to wait for your turn. You are encouraged to be yourself unapologetically.

The ones who speak with an unwavering authority are seen and heard by this teacher. You did not come to this classroom to wait forever to speak up. Your true words coming from your authentic self matter. When you ditch all your learned limitations and opinions of others of you, this teacher sees you as the embodiment of millions of raised hands.

When you choose to be the voice of the entire universe having streamed through your unique cords, the sounds you make alter this reality. You are an incredible power who had just been misguided in a tiny classroom.

The teachings of a tired human teacher in that old classroom stayed with you way longer than it should have. The true teacher of this reality had been waiting for your commanding voice to rise above millions of hands stuck in the air hoping to be the one picked up.

While raised hands numbly wait for their, turn trying to catch the attention of a teacher that does not exist, you start talking today without asking for permission.