Category: Neurodiversity

You may notice that: 💭 small things trigger very big feelings🌊 once you’re upset, it takes a long time to come back down🧊 sometimes you…

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 feel sharper. Background noise becomes difficult to tolerate. Even checking your phone feels like…

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…