Category: Neurodiversity

You feel like you haven’t stopped in days.Your body is heavy, your brain is foggy — and yet you can’t settle. You lie down and…

Many neurodivergent adults know this pattern well: You go to the supermarket “just for a few things”.The lights are sharp, the aisles are crowded, the…

You hear a sentence in a meeting and quietly repeat it under your breath. A line from a television programme returns hours later because it…

A busy day ends and your head starts hurting. The lights suddenly feel sharper. Background noise becomes almost physically irritating. Looking at a screen feels…

A sensory overload hangover is the drained, foggy, irritable, shut-down, or extra-sensitive state that can happen after too much sensory input. It may arrive later…

If you’re ADHD, autistic, AuDHD or otherwise neurodivergent, you might recognise this: 🗣 “I go from ‘fine’ to crying or snapping so fast it shocks…

For many autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults, “home” is not automatically a place of rest. It might be: 🗣 “The only place I can unmask…

You may genuinely believe that neurodivergent people deserve understanding, accommodations and rest, yet struggle to extend the same understanding to yourself. A colleague using headphones…

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…

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…