Before I begin this blog, I want to say that this is not in any way about that song from “Frozen” (2013) nor a tribute. Yes, I think it’s a great song, but not something to be tributed for more than it is.
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What I am talking about here is the actual “Let it Go,” otherwise known as LIG. Last week, I attended the Autism Tree Neuroscience Conference in San Diego to do a book signing of “This is Autism” and one of the important points that my boss at ATPF brought up was the importance of letting it go. This resonated with me as an Entrepeneur because I hold myself to very high standards to the point where one little screw up on the big stage can result in me being very grumpy and cross.
This happened when I had no books of ‘This is Autism” to sign for the platinum sponsors, who should have been the first people to receive signed copies from me in the first place. It was a miscommunication because we were all running around like chickens with our heads cut off. Ultimately, when I was on the verge of a meltdown, my boss pulled me aside and told me to just let it go or she likes to call it LIG.
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Letting it go as a neurodiverse individual is hard work and there have been plenty of moments where I had to let it go even though I didn’t really want to. I had to because it is very unhealthy both mentally and physically to hold onto something negative such as a feeling or an event. Being an Entrepeneur, I do need to make decisions that are good for “Going the Distance” and the decisions that would otherwise be bad for the business in the view of others but not to me would be necessary ones.
Chances are, there is going to be events that you will probably never get over, but you have to. If I make a mistake, I learn from it and move on, but then again, it’s easier said than done. Neurodiverse individuals in moments like what I went through on Friday usually have their brains going about in 50 different directions.
It’s like if Pink Elephants invaded your mind and started playing around with it, kind of like what happened to a little elephant with big ears that enabled him to fly.
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If you were in my shoes, you would have been signing books, talking to people, taking advice from others around you, processing that advice and going through that whole process again. Would I have gone back and redid everything to ensure everything played out the way I envisioned it in the first place?
I can’t because that’s what played out in the end. When we live through a moment, good or bad, we can’t go back and erase it. We just have to embrace the idea of LIG, no matter how long it takes. Sometimes, we just spend the rest of our lives learning to do so.
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Catch you all later!!
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