Book of Questions
If You Build It: A Neurodivergent Field of Dreams
I used to think I was Ray.
You know—Kevin Costner’s character in Field of Dreams. The dreamer. The builder. The man who hears a whisper in the cornfield and dares to follow it.
“If you build it, he will come.”
Ray didn’t know what he was building. He just knew it mattered. That something—someone—was waiting on the other side of belief.
That was me, once. I heard a whisper too. Not from a cornfield, but from the quiet ache of questions that never got answered. From the silence in classrooms. From the labels that landed like verdicts. From the children who didn’t fit, and the mothers who didn’t stop loving them anyway.