ADHD Screens and Dopamine: How to Use Technology Without Falling Into the Scroll Trap
If you have ADHD, you probably know the feeling: 🗣 “I opened my phone to check one message and lost 40 minutes.”🗣 “I can scroll,…
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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…
Micro Burnouts: The Hidden Daily Crashes That Can Lead to Full Neurodivergent Burnout
Many autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults describe a familiar pattern: 🗣 “I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine… and then suddenly I’m done.”🗣 “I can push…
ADHD Career Tips For Job Success
Many ADHD adults end up in careers that look perfectly fine from the outside: 🗣 “Stable job, decent pay, good benefits. I should be happy.”🗣…
Parenting With ADHD: Executive Function, Emotional Reactivity and Realistic Supports
Parenting is demanding for any nervous system. If you have ADHD, you’re doing it with: 🧠 A brain that processes time, motivation and attention differently🎢…
Autistic Special Interests in Adulthood: Comfort, Identity and Burnout Protection
Many autistic and AuDHD adults recognise this pattern: 🗣 “When I’m in my special interest, I feel more myself than anywhere else.”🗣 “People say I’m…
AuDHD Identity: Living With Two Neurotypes at Once
Living with both autism and ADHD (AuDHD) can feel like having two operating systems running on the same hardware. 🗣 “Sometimes I feel so autistic…
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…