Our team examines the latest neurodivergence research to help you unpack and translate science into daily life.
It’s late, two IEPs are due Friday, and the present levels for one of them are finally written. An IEP goal generator offers to draft the annual goal in a few seconds, and what comes back looks finished: a tidy sentence, a confident verb, a percentage at the end. Plenty of teachers take that offer. … read more
You checked the time twenty minutes ago and decided to stop. Your thumb is still going. For a lot of adults with ADHD, that gap is the whole problem. Deciding to stop and being able to start something else are two separate jobs, and the second one is where things stall. The decision landed. The … read more
You are twenty minutes into the one task that finally has your full attention when someone leans in with a quick question. It takes them ten seconds to ask. Forty minutes later you are still trying to find the thread you dropped. The distance between what that interruption cost them and what it cost you … read more
A two-minute conversation goes sideways at ten in the morning, and at quarter to eleven you are still looking at the same sentence in the same document. Nothing else happened. The work is the work it was an hour ago. Something in your body changed during that conversation and has not changed back, and if … read more
The message lands on a Friday afternoon. Can you take this on? And you have already typed “Of course, happy to help” before any part of you has checked whether you can, or want to, or have the room. The drop comes about ninety seconds later. That gap between the yes and the sinking feeling … read more
You are sitting in an IEP meeting, and something is not adding up. The goals sound vague. A service you were promised last spring never showed up. Everyone at the table is polite, but you leave wondering whether you missed something you were supposed to catch. Somewhere around that point, most parents of a neurodivergent … read more
Mint does not taste clean to everyone. For a lot of autistic people it burns, and the foam that comes with it feels like too much happening in one small space at once. Add a brush scraping the gums, water pooling at the back of the throat, and the wet-face feeling at the sink, and … read more
It is almost midnight. Your bed is warm, your phone is in your hand, and your toothbrush is sitting ten feet away in the bathroom. You know you should get up, you want clean teeth, and somehow those ten feet feel like a genuinely unreasonable request. If that scene lands a little too hard, you … read more
There is a book on the nightstand with the receipt still tucked in it, somewhere around page thirty-one. Maybe a therapist recommended it. Maybe a coworker did, or a video that felt like it had been made about you specifically. You bought it that same night. It arrived, you got through the introduction and most … read more
Fifty years ago, a parent could bring a child with a disability to the local public school and be turned away at the door. No enrollment, no plan, no services, and nothing illegal about the refusal. In some states, there were laws on the books that kept deaf, blind, or intellectually disabled children out entirely. … read more