In Everything Everywhere All at Once, Evelyn isn’t short on voices—she’s overwhelmed by them. Each version of herself pulls, shouts, overlaps. The challenge isn’t finding words, it’s making one voice land in this universe, at this moment.

For neurodivergent professionals (NVLD, Autism Spectrum), like myself, communication can feel like that multiverse. The raw draft is true. The instinctive reply is real. But in the workplace multiverse—Slack, stand-ups, status reports, engineers, PMs, VPs—those truths often get misread.

Navigating this feels like forcing a universe-hop without the magic—unnatural, draining, and costly. Call it the Polite Wrapper Tax