Creative Weirdo? Let's Collab!

I’ve been creating with people all my life, but it hasn’t often been collaborative. I teach, I write, I learn, I build—and there’s an energy exchange, in varying ratios. But I’ve rarely found someone who wants to create with me, not just around me.

Part of that is how I tick. I come on too much or too tentative. Too interested or too detached. Too buttoned up or too buttoned down. Sometimes dazzlingly precise, sometimes lost in fog. Sometimes intensely focused, sometimes irritatingly distracted.

I tick on the tock. I’m myself. #CreativeWeirdo #NeurodivergentCreative #AuthenticEnergy

Yeah. That’s how I am. It’s not an elaborate plan. And I don’t think it makes me a bad person, a sick person, or a victim. I tick on the tock. I’m myself.

I don’t think I should have to apologize for that.

For me, it all comes down to safety. I think an instinctive part of my DNA carries prey-wisdom—reinforced by my own experience. I’m grateful for those lessons; they taught me to read the air. When I feel safe—in myself, in the room, in the relationship—I’m fully me, with my best at the helm. I follow patterns, catch rhythms, find music in the moment. But when my radar picks up a safety shift—from any direction—my channel changes.

Still, we all have faults—and mine come with killer pros: creativity, pattern perception, empathy, insight. I’m not wired for the “every person for themselves” game. I want to collaborate, not compete. I just don’t always know how. I can't help but wonder if there are others like me who might get what I mean.

So I’m writing this to find my creative tribe—humans who respond to alchemy. Who create for joy and meaning. Who want to try. Who can tolerate people being uncomfortably weird now and then as a safety mechanism—because I will definitely bring that energy to the party.

I believe we evolve to best meet the moment of our lifetime. I’m therefore the perfect organism for being me. Or, if you prefer: I don’t believe God makes junk.

If that sounds like you—if you create from curiosity and happen to have a kaleidoscope mind—reach out. Maybe we can collaborate. Or at least encourage each other.