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
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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
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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
acceptance
A client told me that they’d had a “good day.” No meltdowns, no shutdowns, nothing dramatic. Then they described that day to me. They’d worn their Loop adaptable earplugs on the drive to work because the radio ads felt like static in their skull. They’d rehearsed a
Affirming
“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
acceptance
Brain Fog, Sensory Aversion, and the Misunderstood Reasons for
ADHD
Explaining the "Monotropic Split"
Polyvagal
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
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Translation burden falls unequally to the neurodivergent, but we can do better as a society.
absence
Emerging after a paradigm shift
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Naming What Often Goes Unnamed