Self-awareness is where everything starts for a neurodivergent musician. Before strategy, before career, before trying to fix anything.

In this improvised episode, Jon Hart reflects on late ADHD and autism discovery, masking, creative identity, emotional dysregulation, and the pressure to follow systems that were never built for you. This is a lived-experience exploration of what it means to understand yourself, rather than being shaped by other people’s frameworks.

The episode moves through creativity, survival mode, unhealthy coping mechanisms, and building a music life around your own operating system. It is not a polished teaching session. It is a raw, honest reflection in real time.

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Neurodivergent musicians | ADHD | Autism | Dyslexia / Creativity | Mental health | Music careers / Self Awareness / Lived Experience