This article is the first one posted to the revived autisticinnovator.com. To continue on the 5.5 year long legacy of education and support for our autistic, ADHD, and neurodivergent community, new blog posts will still be posted here. Some articles were posted to the original autisticinnovator.com autism blog, and some were posted to the shop.autisticinnovator.com store blog. Now everything is back home, and the education legacy will continue.
The last year of my business was full of ups and downs I didn’t understand. I didn’t understand how I could go from thriving in 2024 to suddenly in financial devastation in 2025, and in 2026 I began to figure out exactly what was going on.
The second I figured out what was being done to me and my business, I fought back with a fury, and the full potential of my unrelenting determination took over.
With my own business The Autistic Innovator, I tell myself that failure is a choice, and I refuse to let my business fail. Amazing things can happen when you refuse to fail.
My chaotic lifetime has made me fearless. I am not afraid. I refuse to let anyone control my business. I refuse to let anyone take my power away from me. The Autistic Innovator is not going anywhere.
Back in 2020
I went and registered The Autistic Innovator autism blog as a business. When I got in my car, I looked at that official registration certificate and cried. Deep down I knew my life would never be the same again. I didn’t know what was ahead of me with The Autistic Innovator, but I knew wonderful things were up ahead.
While secretly building my freedom in my offline time capsule completely unplugged from the internet, I remembered that moment nearly 6 years ago. The Autistic Innovator has brought so many wonderful things far beyond what I could have imagined the day The Autistic Innovator became an official registered business.
The Autistic Innovator: My Life’s Purpose
I was 2 years into running the store on another platform before I realized my life purpose is The Autistic Innovator. Serving our community, encouraging self-acceptance, expressing every drop of empathy and compassion I have in my heart through The Autistic Innovator comes from a deep and genuine place.
I choose not to have a romantic relationship, and have very few people in my in person life, because I’ve dedicated everything I have and give my all to our community through The Autistic Innovator every single day.
Fighting for The Autistic Innovator
When fighting for my freedom, it wasn’t just about ripping away the power over my business dark forces had over it, I was absolutely infuriated all customers’ information was secretly harvested by so many companies who treated them like a very profitable pot of gold.
I go to extensive lengths now to opt out of the data harvesting we are all forced into, and keep all customers’ information away from everyone. When orders are placed with The Autistic Innovator, not a single company knows what they bought. When orders go to the post office, no company knows what I shipped to the customer, and no company has a way to track orders they don’t know exist.
The Autistic and ADHD Entrepreneurial Brain
My hyperactive ADHD mixed with my autistic brain that notices every little detail, both combined were my greatest asset that helped me free myself from the chains others put on my business.
While my ADHD is my most severe disability, I’ve learned how to channel that hyperactive brain power into an entrepreneurial asset.
All the corporations who controlled me thought autism and empathy made me weak, but it’s the opposite.
Autism and ADHD makes me strong.
My autistic and ADHD brain wiring gave me the ability to outsmart everyone and set myself free.
Encouragement
You may be fighting a hard battle of your own, and feeling like all the forces of the world are against you.
Those hard times don’t last forever.
Resourcefulness and unrelenting determination can take us much farther than we ever thought possible.