This chapter sits at the hinge between power and futures. Chapter 12 asked who gets to speak. Chapter 13 looked at how institutions are built to hear—or not hear—different kinds of minds. Chapter 14 turns to a question that sounds softer but carries the same weight: how do we talk about what neurodivergent and disabled people give —about creativity, contribution, and “strengths”—without erasing cost, and without making usefulness the condition of belonging. To do that hones