sensoryoverload.info is an educational platform for neurodivergent adults. We publish articles and courses about ADHD, autism, AuDHD, sensory overload, neurodivergent burnout, anxiety, self-care, relationships, and related topics.
Our aim is to combine research, careful explanation, and lived experience in a way that is useful in everyday life.
We want our content to be accurate without pretending that every question has a simple or certain answer.
🧭 Our approach
Our editorial approach is based on a few simple principles.
🔬 We use research where it can help answer important questions.
🧠 We explain complex ideas in accessible language.
🌱 We include lived experience where it adds useful context.
⚖️ We try to distinguish established knowledge from emerging ideas.
🪞 We recognize that neurodivergent experiences differ greatly between people.
🛠️ Practical suggestions are usually presented as options to explore, not universal solutions.
The goal is not simply to provide more information. We want information to help people understand themselves and make daily life more workable.
🔬 How we use research
For evidence-informed articles, we look for relevant scientific research and reliable professional sources.
Depending on the topic, this may include:
🔬 peer-reviewed studies
📚 systematic reviews and meta-analyses
🏥 professional or clinical guidelines
🎓 universities and academic sources
🏛️ established health organizations
📖 relevant books and professional resources
Not every article requires the same amount of research. An article explaining medication, diagnosis, or a psychological assessment requires more careful sourcing than an article about films, everyday experiences, or practical organization strategies.
We try to match the level of evidence to the importance of the claim being made.
📚 Strong evidence and emerging evidence
Research into neurodivergence is still developing. Some topics have been studied for decades, while others are relatively new.
When research is relatively well established, we can communicate findings with more confidence. When evidence is limited, mixed, or emerging, we try to make that visible.
We may use phrases such as:
🔬 “Research suggests…”
📚 “Several studies have found…”
⚠️ “Evidence is still limited…”
🧩 “One possible explanation is…”
🌱 “Some neurodivergent people describe…”
We avoid presenting hypotheses, community observations, or individual experiences as established scientific facts.
🌱 Lived experience
Lived experience is an important part of SensoryOverload.info.
Research can describe patterns across groups, but it does not always show what those patterns feel like in everyday life. Personal and community experiences can therefore help make research more understandable and identify questions that have received little scientific attention.
At the same time, one person’s experience does not represent every neurodivergent person.
We try to distinguish between what research shows and what people commonly describe from lived experience.
🧩 Individual differences matter
People with the same diagnosis or neurotype can have very different strengths, difficulties, needs, and circumstances.
We therefore try to avoid statements that imply all autistic people, people with ADHD, or AuDHD adults experience something in exactly the same way.
Context can matter enormously. Environment, stress, health, relationships, work, sensory demands, life history, and available capacity can all influence how something is experienced.
Our aim is to provide useful patterns without turning those patterns into stereotypes.
🧠 Neurodiversity-informed, but not one-sided
SensoryOverload.info takes a neurodiversity-informed approach.
We recognize neurological differences as part of human diversity, while also taking disability, distress, impairment, and support needs seriously.
We do not want to reduce neurodivergence to deficits. But we also do not want to romanticize difficult experiences or present every neurodivergent trait as a strength.
Both strengths and difficulties can exist at the same time.
🩺 Educational, not clinical
SensoryOverload.info provides education, not individual medical or psychological diagnosis or treatment.
Our articles may explain diagnoses, screening questionnaires, medications, therapies, burnout, anxiety, or other health-related topics. This information can help readers understand these subjects, but it cannot determine what diagnosis or treatment is right for a particular person.
Screening tools and self-assessments should also not be confused with formal diagnosis.
Where professional assessment or healthcare may be important, we aim to make that clear.
🛠️ Practical strategies
Many SensoryOverload articles and courses include practical ideas.
We generally treat strategies as experiments rather than prescriptions.
Something that helps one person may not help another. A useful strategy may also depend on the environment, available energy, sensory needs, support, or current circumstances.
This fits our broader learning method:
🧭 Understand → 🪞 Map → 🔎 Identify → 🛠️ Experiment → 📊 Evaluate → 🔄 Adjust → 🌱 Sustain
The goal is not to find the universally correct coping strategy. It is to discover what creates a better fit for the individual.
✍️ How we create content
The exact process depends on the article, but our general editorial approach includes understanding the reader’s question, reviewing relevant information, writing a clear explanation, and checking important factual claims.
For larger or evidence-heavy articles, we may look at multiple studies, reviews, professional sources, and different interpretations before writing.
We also review articles for clarity and practical usefulness. Scientific information should not only be accurate; readers should also be able to understand what it means.
👤 Authors and expertise
Articles on SensoryOverload.info have identifiable authors or editorial responsibility.
Author backgrounds may include academic knowledge, professional experience, editorial experience, and lived experience. These are different forms of expertise and should not be confused with one another.
We do not claim clinical qualifications that an author does not have.
Where an article receives meaningful input or review from an external professional, this may be stated on the article.
📖 References
Evidence-informed articles generally include references at the end.
We prefer sources that directly support the subject being discussed rather than adding references simply to make an article appear more scientific.
Where possible, we prefer original research, systematic reviews, guidelines, and established organizations.
The number of references is less important than whether they are relevant and useful.
🔄 Updates and corrections
Our content is not fixed forever.
Articles may be updated when:
🔬 important new research becomes available
🧠 terminology changes
📚 an explanation can be made more accurate
🛠️ practical information can be improved
🔗 resources or recommendations change
⚠️ we discover an error
Minor corrections may simply be fixed. More substantial changes may result in an updated publication date or revised section.
Readers are welcome to contact us when they believe something is inaccurate, outdated, or missing.
We would rather improve an article than defend an error.
🤖 Use of AI
AI tools may be used to support parts of our editorial work, such as brainstorming, organizing information, improving structure, or editing language.
AI is not treated as a scientific source.
Important factual claims and references should be based on actual sources rather than assumed to be correct because an AI system generated them.
Human editorial responsibility remains with SensoryOverload.info.
💼 Commercial content
SensoryOverload.info offers courses and other learning resources.
Articles may link to relevant courses when they provide a logical next step for readers who want to explore a subject more deeply.
The existence of a product should not determine the scientific conclusions of an article.
Our aim is:
useful information → better understanding → optional deeper learning
rather than creating unnecessary fear or urgency in order to sell something.
🧩 Our own frameworks
SensoryOverload.info may create educational frameworks to make complex experiences easier to understand.
These frameworks can combine research, practical concepts, and lived experience in a structured way.
Unless specifically validated through research, our own models should be understood as educational frameworks, not diagnostic tools or established scientific theories.
Their purpose is to help people think, reflect, and learn.
🌿 Accessibility and readability
Good information should also be usable.
We therefore aim for clear headings, readable paragraphs, concrete examples, practical explanations, and visual structure that makes longer articles easier to navigate.
Many readers may be tired, overwhelmed, distracted, or dealing with executive-function difficulties. Clear structure is therefore part of our editorial approach, not just a design choice.
🌱 Our standard
SensoryOverload.info aims to publish content that is:
🔬 informed by evidence
🧠 clear and understandable
🌱 enriched by lived experience
⚖️ honest about uncertainty
🪞 respectful of individual differences
🛠️ useful in everyday life
Our central principle is simple:
Use evidence to understand the pattern. Use lived experience to understand the person. Use both to explore support that fits