Category: Neurodiversity

A plan changes unexpectedly and your brain keeps reaching for the original plan. Someone interrupts you halfway through a task and moving into something else…

Good accommodations do not make life “too easy.” They remove barriers that make ordinary tasks unnecessarily difficult. A quieter workspace, written instructions, flexible scheduling or…

Some days you can work, cook, answer messages and still have something left in the evening. On another day, one appointment seems to use almost…

You open a browser tab and forget why. Someone gives you three instructions and only the first one survives. You wait for your turn to…

Self-regulation is often described as the ability to “calm yourself down.” That is only a small part of it. Regulation can also mean getting yourself…

Sometimes your brain feels full even when the task in front of you looks small. You may manage complex work for hours but get stuck…

ADHD is called an attention deficit disorder, yet many people with ADHD can spend hours completely absorbed in something they care about. Autistic people can…

You may hear a sound nobody else seems bothered by, need strong pressure or movement to feel comfortable, miss hunger until it becomes urgent, or…

Neurodivergent describes someone whose brain or neurocognitive functioning differs meaningfully from what is considered typical. Autism, ADHD, dyslexia and several other developmental differences are commonly…

Neurodivergent masking means hiding, suppressing, compensating for or performing over neurodivergent traits so that you appear closer to what other people expect. It can look…