Text and Photo by Sarah Edali, MSc(c) Editor’s Note: This blog post was written by Sarah Edali, an incoming MSc student who previously worked in the BESST lab on perinatal mental health. Drawing on personal insight alongside emerging literature on neurodiversity, the piece invites readers to reconsider dominant assumptions about productivity, routine, and “optimal” functioning. Readers are encouraged to engage with this post both as a reflective narrative and as an entry poin