AuDHD Identity: Understanding Yourself After Diagnosis
An AuDHD diagnosis can explain why earlier descriptions of you always seemed partly right and partly wrong. Perhaps you were described as organised, yet maintaining…
Author: Johan Lammers, MSc
I founded sensoryoverload.info after being diagnosed with AuDHD in my early forties. Through this platform, I share what I continue to learn, in the hope that it helps neurodivergent adults feel less alone, better understand themselves, and find approaches that fit their lives. I draw on my MSc in Psychology, years of hyperfocused neurodiversity research, and my own ongoing experience of living with AuDHD.
I’d love to connect with others in the neurodivergent community on LinkedIn and/or X.
Interoception and Eating in Neurodivergent Adults: Hunger, Fullness and Forgetting to Eat
You may feel no hunger for most of the day, then suddenly become shaky, nauseous, irritable or unable to think. You know food would probably…
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
You may spend a long time wanting to stand up, begin a task or leave the house without being able to make the first movement…
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…