This season looks a little different for everyone.

Parents are preparing for school, teachers are setting up classrooms, college students are moving into dorms and apartments, entrepreneurs are preparing for their next thing, and professionals are rebuilding routines after summer.

Everyone is quietly preparing for what’s next.

We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about preparation this month, and we’re seeing it everywhere we look.

This month has been a big one for us at NeuroLocker. (Yes, I know we say that every month, but there’s always something going on to celebrate.)

Something we’ve been working on for the better part of the last month is the website redesign we have done. We have made it a bit more professional while still communicating the mission that we are building.

We have two spots for resources now - the Community Hub and the Resources Page.

We also have a spot on our Contact Us page for a resource submission. If you have a resource you would like to share with us or to share with the community, please submit the form here!

We are also continuing to post weekly blogs on our Blogs page. Go check them out!

We realized that people don’t just need the information - they need somewhere that feels like it was built for them. And we hope that these resource pages can be that place for people to find something to help.

A lot of the creators we follow are focusing on the more real-life side of things right now.

This shift is something we are leaning into a lot more with our content as well.

Here is an excerpt from the blog coming out next week that my mom wrote.

“There are moments from thirteen years of advocating that have faded with time. This one never will. Gabe was in sixth grade, sitting in his honors math class to meet with his teacher. We had been struggling, and I knew something wasn't working. I expected the meeting to be about finding solutions.

Instead, I sat across from his teacher while she looked at my son and told us that he wasn't capable of doing math above a fourth-grade level and that he was too stupid to be in her honors class.

She said it in front of him.

The truth was, she wasn't seeing Gabe, she was seeing the outcome. She saw unfinished work. She saw mistakes. She saw someone who wasn't learning the way she expected him to. What she didn't see was everything happening before those mistakes.

One of the hardest realities of raising a child with an invisible disability is that people often judge the result without ever asking what happened before it.”

This is a reality that a lot of neurodivergent people live, whether we want to or not. Something that came out of those 13 years of advocacy was a letter about who Gabe was.

At the time, my mom wasn't sure one more piece of paper could possibly make a difference. Looking back now, I realize it wasn't just another piece of paper - it was the first opportunity to introduce my brother as a person instead of a diagnosis.

To read the full story behind the letter, as well as what a letter is and the impact it had on the relationships my brother, my mom, and his teachers had because of the letter, watch for the blog coming out this Wednesday.

If you’ve made it this far, I’m so glad you’re here!

I wanted to share a couple links for some specific resources we have put together if you’ve got the time to look through them.

I also wanted to give y’all a sneak peak into the blog that is going out this week from my mom about the letter. The sneak peak is about a 5 minute read and the whole blog is about a 25 minute read, but I think that it’s a really important journey to tell, especially when the outcome was a few years of school that were just that much easier to get through.

Here’s a link to the sneak peak of the blog.

What’s one thing you’re quietly preparing for right now?

Could be school, could be work, could be life.

Hit reply and tell us.

We’d genuinely love to hear what you’re working on!

(Yes, this goes to a real human.)

Earlier I mentioned the resource submission form. If you have a resource or article or just something you want to share with us - whether on here or through the form - we would love to hear about it!

To submit a resource, click here.

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Thanks for spending a little time with us this month! If you got to this point, please drink some water!

We hope that whatever you’re preparing for, you remember that the work nobody sees if often the work that matters most.

See you next dispatch!

Sophea

Co-Founder, NeuroLocker