Autism Awareness Month: We’re Not Broken—We’re Wired Differently

April always feels a little different for me. It’s Autism Awareness Month, and for my family—where every one of us is neurodivergent—it hits close in ways that are hard to explain but impossible to ignore.

Over the years, I’ve found myself running into walls that didn’t make sense. In work. In friendships. In day-to-day life. Things that seemed easy for others felt like unsolvable puzzles for me. I used to think I just wasn’t trying hard enough. But the more I learned about how our brains work—how we’re wired differently from allistic (non-autistic) minds—the more everything started to make sense.

It’s wild how life starts to shift when you realize the issue isn’t you—it’s the system you were dropped into. Most of the world is built for one kind of brain. And if yours isn’t that kind? You spend a lot of time trying to translate, to mask, to just manage.

But autism isn’t something to fix. It’s not an error code—it’s an entirely different operating system. The more I’ve learned, the more I’ve realized how much beauty, depth, and strength lives in neurodivergent minds. That knowledge changed everything for me.

I started My Sound Project as a way to make noise about that—to create space for awareness, expression, and community. Because that’s what it comes down to. We’re not sick. We’re not broken. We don’t need curing—we need understanding. We need room to be who we are without having to justify it.

If you’ve ever felt like the world wasn’t quite made for you, or like you were speaking a language no one else understood—I see you. And I hope this month, more people start to hear us.