From Caterpillar to Butterfly: A New World for Neurodiverse Minds
I am 72 years old today. For more than 50 years, I’ve been like a caterpillar, slowly eating, learning, and filling myself with information. Patiently, quietly, preparing. And now, I feel my imaginal cells kicking in. The time has come. A butterfly is about to emerge.
What excites me most is this: the butterfly world is not about me alone. It is about the people whom society has too often ignored — the neurodiverse.
For too long, the education system has worked like a factory: one way of teaching, one way of measuring success. If you didn’t fit into the system, you were pushed aside, labelled “not normal.” Yet these so-called “different” brains — autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, and others — hold abilities the rest of us struggle to imagine. They see patterns, they take leaps, they invent.
Now we are standing at the edge of something as big as the printing press. When the printing press arrived, knowledge leapt out of the hands of the clergy and spread to everyone. Books changed the world. Today, AI is that printing press reborn. It is the great leveller, giving anyone — no matter how they learn or think — the tools to become an expert.
I believe neurodiverse people are perfectly placed for this moment. If we can find them, guide them, and put them in front of businesses with their AI and prompt engineering skills, they will shine. They will create enormous value. They will finally be seen for the geniuses they are.
So yes, at 72, I am not worried about the future. I am excited. Because like the butterfly, I know something beautiful is about to unfold — for me, for you, and especially for those hidden minds waiting to spread their wings.
— David Renner, age 72, still becoming.
I am 72 years old today. For more than 50 years, I’ve been like a caterpillar, slowly eating, learning, and filling myself with information. Patiently, quietly, preparing. And now, I feel my imaginal cells kicking in. The time has come. A butterfly is about to emerge.
What excites me most is this: the butterfly world is not about me alone. It is about the people whom society has too often ignored — the neurodiverse.
For too long, the education system has worked like a factory: one way of teaching, one way of measuring success. If you didn’t fit into the system, you were pushed aside, labelled “not normal.” Yet these so-called “different” brains — autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, and others — hold abilities the rest of us struggle to imagine. They see patterns, they take leaps, they invent.
Now we are standing at the edge of something as big as the printing press. When the printing press arrived, knowledge leapt out of the hands of the clergy and spread to everyone. Books changed the world. Today, AI is that printing press reborn. It is the great leveller, giving anyone — no matter how they learn or think — the tools to become an expert.
I believe neurodiverse people are perfectly placed for this moment. If we can find them, guide them, and put them in front of businesses with their AI and prompt engineering skills, they will shine. They will create enormous value. They will finally be seen for the geniuses they are.
So yes, at 72, I am not worried about the future. I am excited. Because like the butterfly, I know something beautiful is about to unfold — for me, for you, and especially for those hidden minds waiting to spread their wings.
— David Renner, age 72, still becoming.
From Caterpillar to Butterfly: A New World for Neurodiverse Minds
I am 72 years old today. For more than 50 years, I’ve been like a caterpillar, slowly eating, learning, and filling myself with information. Patiently, quietly, preparing. And now, I feel my imaginal cells kicking in. The time has come. A butterfly is about to emerge.
What excites me most is this: the butterfly world is not about me alone. It is about the people whom society has too often ignored — the neurodiverse.
For too long, the education system has worked like a factory: one way of teaching, one way of measuring success. If you didn’t fit into the system, you were pushed aside, labelled “not normal.” Yet these so-called “different” brains — autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, and others — hold abilities the rest of us struggle to imagine. They see patterns, they take leaps, they invent.
Now we are standing at the edge of something as big as the printing press. When the printing press arrived, knowledge leapt out of the hands of the clergy and spread to everyone. Books changed the world. Today, AI is that printing press reborn. It is the great leveller, giving anyone — no matter how they learn or think — the tools to become an expert.
I believe neurodiverse people are perfectly placed for this moment. If we can find them, guide them, and put them in front of businesses with their AI and prompt engineering skills, they will shine. They will create enormous value. They will finally be seen for the geniuses they are.
So yes, at 72, I am not worried about the future. I am excited. Because like the butterfly, I know something beautiful is about to unfold — for me, for you, and especially for those hidden minds waiting to spread their wings.
— David Renner, age 72, still becoming.
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