From bb18ad1b0ad160969c33fbce5595081a504b0f86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cursor Agent
- Being a new software engineer while also being a newly-diagnosed neurodivergent person with a chronic illness, no direct manager, and no roadmap — that's not a gap year story. That's just what it was. Hard. Clarifying. Mine. + Being a new software engineer while also being a newly-diagnosed neurodivergent person with a chronic illness in a brand-new corporate environment at Zappos, during its post-holacracy transition into full Amazon ownership, wasn't a gap-year story. That's just what it was. Hard. Clarifying. Mine. +
++ Then I was laid off in January 2023. That moment hurt, and it also forced a reckoning: I could see how much people-pleasing had shaped the way I worked, while emotional sustainability was treated as optional. That layoff became the turning point that pushed me into the deep end of building what Pythoness Programmer is becoming.
What helped wasn't a system. It was people. A TikTok community of late-identified and lifelong neurodivergent adults who were naming patterns I'd been carrying alone. Marginalized voices who had been talking for years about how our systems — tech systems, productivity systems, social systems — were built to serve a particular kind of brain and body, and how everyone else was just expected to adapt.
From a6ec097af913d834c19c5fcdb8b8766aa815f285 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cursor Agent
@@ -79,7 +80,6 @@ export default function Footer() {