Misfits from HIstory- Buckminster Fuller

During the autumn of 1927, Fuller contemplated suicide by drowning in Lake Michigan, so that his family could benefit from a life insurance payment.[20]

Fuller said that he had experienced a profound incident which would provide direction and purpose for his life. He felt as though he was suspended several feet above the ground enclosed in a white sphere of light. A voice spoke directly to Fuller, and declared:

"From now on you need never await temporal attestation to your thought. You think the truth. You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You do not belong to you. You belong to the Universe. Your significance will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your role if you apply yourself to converting your experiences to the highest advantage of others.[21]"

Fuller stated that this experience led to a profound re-examination of his life. He ultimately chose to embark on "an experiment, to find what a single individual could contribute to changing the world and benefiting all humanity".[22]

Later in life, when he worked as a professor, Albert Einstein visited his college, but Bucky wasn't invited by the admins.

Einstein sought him out anyway, telling him that he was one of the few people that Einstein thought actually understood relativity.

My point?

ND people are often surrounded by people who are only interested in social ladder-climbing and don't actually have original thoughts, to the point of harassment and marginalisation of the less socially-inclined and connected.

The person is outcast, and so are their potential contributions.

I have often failed to defend myself and my creations and ideas. It took my having hte terminology to define myself and the increasing amount of peers posting to help me find my feet.

This is a place to empower other ND's and remind you that world is larger than yourself. I think we often create out own little worlds because we're outcast, I'm suggesting larger creations.

If someday I am given the wherewithal to do more to help give voice to more ND peeps, I'll say so here. For now, I'm an outcast myself.

I'd love to found a whole education system that gives a withering stare at mere rote-memorisation and regurgitation, instead encouraging the fostering of one's own path, different though it may be from the paved four-lane.