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Essence Meets my Neurodivergence

Smart Funny & Black Productions

Amanda Seales

Self-improvement, Education

4.89.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

That one time that I did a photo shoot for Essence Magazine and crashed out. Learning the ways my autism affects how I and why I exist the way I do has been life changing and liberating! 

Great Read: Is This Autism

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0:00.0

You know, a friend once told me my life is lived for others to laugh and learn from.

0:07.0

And she was right.

0:10.0

Behind the CEO, never a dumb moment.

0:16.0

Behind the CEO, my life's your lesson. Story time for the neuro of my life. Your Lessing.

0:22.3

Story time for the neurodivergence.

0:25.0

I mean, anyone can get in, but this will help you understand your neurospicy,

0:31.7

brethren, cisterns, and non-binary, much better.

0:40.0

Oh, man.

0:43.8

So I'm going to play y'all a video.

0:47.5

And then I'm going to tell y'all a story about when I did an essence shoot in Grenada.

0:54.1

So I want you to watch the video.

0:57.4

Okay, watch the video.

1:00.3

And then I'm going to talk about how this video relates and how it actually

1:09.3

decoded something that's happened to me many times in my life,

1:13.6

but I'm going to give you a very specific way that this played out when I did a shoot for Essens

1:18.7

magazine in Grenada. Neuridivergents are often accused of having a really short temper.

1:24.6

And I don't think that's necessarily true inherently, but I do know that it does

1:28.9

often look like that. And let me explain. I made this little graph to help you understand. If you're

1:32.8

neurotypical, the way you socialize information, the way you socialize interactions, you are sort of

1:38.6

permitted to some degree to increasingly demonstrate your frustration, right? You see you have one all the way through 10 with this

1:45.6

nice little color-coded gradient. When you're neurodivergent and you are working in certain environments

1:50.5

that you don't feel very safe in, you're going to put on a mask. And with that mask, right,

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