Meet My Autistic Brain Build Lasting Motivation
Oct 8, 2025
Join Becca Block, the creator behind Spicy Brains Get Stuff Done, as she shares her insights on motivation for neurodivergent minds. Discover her ABCDs of Motivation—Abilities, Belonging, Choices, and Dopamine—and how to effectively tackle procrastination. Becca reframes procrastination as a stress response rather than a weakness and offers strategies to embrace executive functioning. She emphasizes building connections that feel effortless and encourages listeners to take small steps towards lasting motivation.
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Childhood Sensory Memory
- Becca remembered sensory issues as a child, like removing clothes because they couldn't stand touch.
- She only recognized autism as an adult after her child was diagnosed and paperwork triggered recognition.
Procrastination Protects You
- Procrastination is an emotion-management response, not a time-management failure.
- Becca advises thanking your brain for protecting you and then address the stressor causing avoidance.
Rethink Executive Functioning
- Executive functioning covers planning, emotion and motivation management, sequencing, and response control.
- Neurodivergent brains perform these differently, causing variable productivity rather than uniform dysfunction.
