Why Your Neurodivergent Nervous System Can’t Calm Down (Even When You’re Exhausted)
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…
Category: Neurodiversity
Sensory Overload at the Supermarket: A Step-by-Step Plan to Shop Without Crashing
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…
Echolalia in Adults: Meaning, Types, and Why It Can Be Regulating
You catch yourself repeating a phrase from a TV show under your breath.A sentence someone said three days ago pops back into your head and…
Sensory Overload Headaches: When Too Much Input Turns Into Pain
Some days the headache feels like it came out of nowhere.You wake up okay, go through a normal workday or family routine, and by late…
Sensory Overload Hangover: Why You Crash the Next Day (and How to Recover)
You get through a noisy workday, a family birthday, a supermarket trip, or a long appointment and think, “Okay, I survived that better than expected.”…
Neurodivergent Emotional Overflow: Why You Cry, Snap or Go Blank Faster Than Others
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…
Designing a Sensory‑Friendly Home: Practical Changes for Autistic, ADHD and AuDHD Adults
For many autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults, “home” is not automatically a place of rest. It might be: 🗣 “The only place I can unmask…
Internalised Ableism in Neurodivergent Adults: How It Shows Up and How to Unlearn It
Many autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults live with a harsh internal voice that sounds like this: 🗣 “I should be able to cope like everyone…
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…