If you'd asked me what kind of student I was a few years ago, I probably would have said I felt lost, or out of order. Staying focused and studying the way I was told to never really made sense to me, and for a long time I figured that meant something was wrong with me.

I don't think that anymore, not because I fixed my brain, but because I fixed the way I saw it. Being neurodivergent means a lot of traditional study methods just don't work for me the way they seem to for everyone else. But it also means I've learned to find my own way through things, and over time I've stopped seeing that as a flaw and started seeing it as one of my biggest strengths.

That's really where Fuel for Focus came from. I spent months reading about learning science and neurodivergence on my own, then used that to build Fo-Bot, which took a lot of trial and error. I ended up rebuilding it more than once after actually surveying neurodivergent students and realizing some of what I thought would help wasn't quite right.

We're still growing and still figuring a lot of this out. But the goal has stayed the same since the beginning: help other students understand their own minds the way I've had to learn to understand mine.