1 I believe every child deserves love, not fixing
2 The world we live in
3 I was tired
4 Wrong or missed diagnoses
5 Miscommunication and misunderstanding
6 Broken brilliance
7 The other side of inattentiveness
8 The perfect brain myth
9 A mom’s story
10 Time to begin

TL;DR: I started this work because I was tired … tired of seeing brilliant, sensitive, misunderstood children being labeled, punished, or overlooked. ADHD, autism, trauma … these are not flaws but different operating systems. When we shift our perspective from “fixing” to “understanding,” children stop fighting the world and start flourishing.
This is where Wild Minds – Bright Future begins.

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𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨, 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 – 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧.

𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑓𝑜𝑟.

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 … of seeing the life flame of children diminish, just because their grown ups didn’t know what they were dealing with. Trauma, ADHD, autism, AuDHD …

I was tired of children getting wrong diagnosis or just half diagnosed. And nobody realizing it. And they just continued to suffer and getting worse and worse. And nobody understanding why.

I was tired of seeing children being mistreated even though they really tried their best, just nobody knew how to communicate the right way.

Tired of social media accounts with their 10 second videos that either glorified the whole thing or made it look like you are completely mental. As if it’s this simple.

Tired of seeing brilliant minds … really something else … getting broken by the system and people around them. Why?

Instead of using and grooming their strengths you focus on weakness and stomp on somebody who is already on the floor. Why?

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 … 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐢𝐧?

The curiosity, creativity, the hyperfocus on meaningful things, adaptability, pattern recognition, innovation and original thinking … the same brain excels in?

Let’s count … 7 versus 1. I’ll take the inattentiveness any time if it means I get extra on the other.

𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑦𝑝𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 “𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛” …which, in the end, can be just as disadvantaged when placed in the wrong environment or situation.

So why does it have to be one or the other? Why is it so hard for people to believe that just like there are different skin colours, there are different types of brains that just simply coexist?

A mom told me she feels like she got a treat because I was working with her son and the results were amazing. And how she wishes everyone could have this treat.

He went from being late to school because not able to wake up, bad marks because zero focus, aggressivity because nobody saw the autism mixed in his ADHD, sluggishness, depression to somebody who gets up at 6am, goes to the gym before school, pays attention and does an extra hour of learning after school consistently.

She said, she wishes more people had access to this.

All it needed were a different way of doing things. The biggest challenge for me was not to change his behavior but to convince the parents to do what was needed and even more so … to change the view of himself.

𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒔𝒆𝒆.

I wish everyone could have the conversations that I have with those kids. Their intelligence, their visions, their imagination, their way of seeing things, their ambitions, being able to connect things that nobody else can, their humour … you would be amazed.

𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 … 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡.

You teach that child about who they really are inside with all their strengths and abilities and you will unleash a whole different story.

𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧!