For most of my life, I didn't know I was Autistic with ADHD. All I knew was that things other people found simple felt impossible for me. Finishing tasks, staying organized, pushing through when something got overwhelming… it was all a mystery I blamed on myself.
I thought I just wasn't disciplined enough. Focused enough. Strong enough.
Then a few years ago, I finally got the words for what was happening in my brain — and everything clicked into place. The struggle wasn't a character flaw. It was an operating system mismatch.
Once I understood that, something in me shifted.
Instead of fighting my brain, I started working with it. Instead of apologizing for how I think, I began recognizing the things I do uniquely well — noticing patterns other people miss, building systems from scratch, connecting ideas sideways, and solving problems no one else can quite articulate.
Project Jadeite is built on that reframing.
It's me treating Autism and ADHD not as deficits, but as superpowers — the reason I create, innovate, and help in the ways I do.
This isn't about fame, fortune, or intellectual property. I'm not chasing status or clout. That's never been the point.
Project Jadeite exists for one reason: to make my world, and the worlds of the people I care about, better. Kinder. Clearer. A little more magical around the edges.
Every tool I build, every character I create, every mint-and-violet idea that lives under the Jadeite banner comes from that place — the part of me that wants to leave things better than I found them.
And yes… there's a part of me that knows my mom would be proud of this work. Of the way I'm learning to take who I really am and turn it into something that helps other people more fully than I ever could before.
Not a brand. Not a company. A mission. A shift. A home for every part of my brain that was told it was “too much” — and turned out to be exactly right.