Learn about neurodivergent experiences and how to best support those who live them.
An hour into dinner, you laugh a beat after everyone else, and you’re already working out how long the drive home takes. Nobody at the table can tell. Your social battery hit the red zone somewhere around the appetizers, and the rest of the night runs on fumes. For ADHD and autistic adults, that drain … read more
Keys in one hand, halfway out the door, you are standing at the kitchen counter tearing open a package that arrived yesterday. Whether that counts as impulsive or compulsive depends less on the action and more on what it was for. Impulsive vs compulsive behavior can look identical from the outside. The difference sits on … read more
The calendar app that ran your week for six years now has nineteen unread reminders, and the sticky note on the fridge has been there since spring. It is natural to wonder whether the ADHD itself changed. Sometimes something did change. More often, what changed is the life around the brain: a new job, a … read more
A teenager with ADHD can pull passing grades and still qualify for an IEP. That surprises a lot of parents of middle and high schoolers, usually right after a meeting where someone called their kid “too bright” or “doing fine” for special education. Meanwhile, the backpack tells a different story: finished homework that never got … read more
The email is written. It has been sitting in drafts since lunch, and you were going to send it. Then someone asks, “Did you send that yet?” and the email suddenly weighs about forty pounds. If that moment is familiar, you may have wondered whether it is ordinary ADHD trouble getting started or something closer … read more
The meeting with HR is on the calendar for Thursday. You asked for it, or your manager suggested it, and between now and then you are supposed to arrive with a list of what would help. The cursor blinks in an empty document. That blank page is the real obstacle with ADHD workplace accommodations, and … read more
You ask what they want this year and get a shrug. Maybe an “I don’t know.” Maybe nothing at all. So you go looking, and a lot of the gift lists for autistic teens turn out to be gift lists for autistic toddlers with a new headline: chewy shapes, light-up spinners, toys sized for small … 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