00:00Tell us about the importance of merging that real world neurodivergent perspective with your fictional epic fantasy world building.
00:06So I had been I've been writing for over 30 years and I had never shared anything.
00:11It was more of my introspections, my understanding of the world through these fantasy and fictions that I was creating.
00:17But when I was diagnosed in 2019, it was a very big aha moment.
00:22And I was looking back and trying to decide, OK, well, what does that mean for me?
00:27Writing has been something that I've done for so long.
00:29And when I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing.
00:31So I thought maybe that's my special interest.
00:34And it gave me the courage to take my my manuscript for my first book and send it to an
00:39editor.
00:39I'm keeping in mind the worst they can say is it's it sucks.
00:42And they came back and they said, this doesn't suck.
00:44You should publish. But also, too, with the hyper focuses and stuff, I am able to look at the world
00:49from a creative outlet,
00:50from angles where people don't necessarily look at things because I'm not restricted by what society has said.
00:57Oh, you can't do that or that's taboo.
00:59My brain doesn't understand that. And I will look at things from different angles.
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