Interoception and Eating in Neurodivergent Adults: Hunger, Fullness and Forgetting to Eat
If you’re autistic, ADHD or AuDHD, eating might not feel as simple as “get hungry → eat → feel full → stop.” You might notice…
Neurodivergent Conflict Styles: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn in Relationships
In many ADHD, autistic and AuDHD relationships, conflict doesn’t look “mild disagreement then calm discussion”. It often looks like: Neurodivergent Conflict Styles 🗣 “I went…
ADHD Hyperfocus in Relationships and Work
If you have ADHD or AuDHD, you may know hyperfocus from the inside: 🗣 “I can lock onto something for hours and forget the world…
Autistic Cognitive Styles: Monotropism, Detail Focus and Pattern Detection Explained
Many autistic and AuDHD adults recognise themselves in descriptions like: 🗣 “When I’m into something, it’s like the rest of the world fades out.”🗣 “I…
Hormones and ADHD: How the Menstrual Cycle, Perimenopause and HRT Affect Symptoms
Many ADHD adults who menstruate notice a pattern that is hard to ignore: 🗣 “Some weeks my ADHD feels manageable; other weeks my brain falls…
ADHD and Finances: Executive Function, Impulse Spending and Money Shame
Many ADHD adults have a painful secret theme in their lives: money. 🗣 “I earn enough on paper, but I never know where it goes.”🗣…
Autistic Inertia: Why Starting (and Switching) Tasks Feels Physically Impossible
Many autistic and AuDHD adults describe a very specific experience: 🗣 “I want to do the thing. I can’t start the thing.”🗣 “Once I’ve started,…
ADHD Emotional Permanence: Why People Feel “Gone” When They’re Not in Front of You
Many ADHD adults describe a strange and painful pattern in relationships: 🗣 “When someone isn’t around, it’s like they fade out of my brain.”🗣 “As…
Sensory Seeking vs Sensory Avoidance in Neurodivergent Adults
Many autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults describe their sensory world in ways that don’t match what people around them expect: 🗣 “Some things are too…
Late Diagnosis Grief in Neurodivergent Adults
Many autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults only discover their neurodivergence in their 20s, 30s, 40s or even later. The moment things “click” can be powerful:…