If you have ADHD, you've probably been told a lot of things about your space. You're messy. You're lazy. You just need to try harder. You need to organize the way everyone else does. None of that is true. Here's what'
An RPG-Based Therapy Group for Neurodivergent Adults in California
We honor the fact that neurodivergent nervous systems often require gentle, regulated stimulation to wind down rather than forced silence. The goal remains the same—to retrain your nervous system’s relationship with sleep.
Autism
Why Explaining Isn't Answering. (JADE =Justify. Argue. Defend. Explain.) It sounds like communication. It feels like honesty. But it's actually your nervous system trying to survive something that feels dangerous—even when the threat isn't real. And the more you JADE, the deeper you sink.
Autism
If you open the DSM-5, the diagnostic manual used by mental health professionals worldwide, you will find autism described largely through a lens of lack. Specifically, it highlights "deficits in social communication." Watch the quick summary on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnI7ZhRckFg For decades,
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This is the new home of GlisZEN, moving into our own home. You will see that all of the previous GlisZENing with Swift Mind Care (Substack Site) content should be here, and likely unlocked...and the hope is to make this so it is less cumbersome to read, and to
Neurotype
You’ve probably seen a headline claiming scientists found a drug that “treats autism.” It happens every few years, with a different molecule each time. Oxytocin. Psychedelics. The gut microbiome. Most recently, a drug called rapamycin. I’m not going to spend much time on the drug itself, because the
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...your instinct to believe people and assume good faith is not a bug
For most of my life, I measured myself against people whose brains worked nothing like mine. I didn't know that's what I was doing. I just knew I kept coming up short. Too sensitive. Too inconsistent. Too much, and somehow also not trying hard enough. I
There’s a pattern I hear constantly in session, and I hear it almost word for word every time. A client will describe their childhood self as an old soul. Then, in the same breath, they’ll describe their adult self as somehow behind. Not behind everyone. Behind their peers
For many autistic adults, frustration is the baseline, not the exception because an autistic brain must manually process sensory input and social cues that others filter automatically. This constant, invisible "translation fatigue" is one of the most under-recognized forms of exhaustion we face.
“ADHD isn’t an attention deficit.” That sentence surprises people every time I say it in session. It surprises parents. It surprises the executives I coach. It even surprises clinicians who learned the diagnostic criteria one way and never questioned the label itself. Here’s the problem. The name we
Brain Fog, Sensory Aversion, and the Misunderstood Reasons for
Explaining the "Monotropic Split"
You’ve probably heard some version of this before. “Just calm down.” “Choose differently next time.” “You have more control than you think.” Here’s why that advice falls apart in the actual moment. Your thinking brain is not first in line. It’s not even close. The timeline nobody
Translation burden falls unequally to the neurodivergent, but we can do better as a society.
Emerging after a paradigm shift
Naming What Often Goes Unnamed
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