Your ADHD Brain Isn’t Broken!
A quick note before we dive in: this post focuses specifically on the ADHD brain. Autism involves its own distinct neurology, and the two overlap in ways that deserve their […]
When Your Survival Superpower Becomes Your Diagnostic Blind Spot
How trauma and AuDHD fused together, and why the very skills that kept me alive made me invisible to every system designed to help me. F43.8 KOMPLEXE POSTTRAUMATISCHE BELASTUNGSSTÖRUNG · […]
When Pattern Recognition Becomes a Trap: AuDHD, Trauma and the People Who Unlock Your Worst Self
I was watching the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial, or rather, I was watching the footage and the commentary and the internet losing its collective mind over who was […]
The Psychic Donut: Why I Always Know and Why It’s Not Magic
Let me say something that sounds completely batshit crazy. I can walk into a room and know within seconds who is lying, who is dangerous, who doesn’t belong, and who […]
Sleepers: On Being Awake in a World That Prefers Not to Be
I used to call them sleepers. Not to their faces, even I know when to keep my mouth shut. But in my head, long before the Matrix made the metaphor […]
Neurodivergence and Medication: The Sleep Chapter
If you read my earlier post about Venlafaxine (Effexor), you’ll know that it genuinely changed my life. The panic attacks stopped. The anxiety went away. My old, happy self came […]
Still Looking for Home: A Neurodivergent Professional’s Journey
I read something this week that made me cry. Not the polite, dignified kind of crying. The kind that catches you off guard at 10am on a Friday, sitting […]
The Control Freak Label: Perfectionism, Imposter Syndrome and the AuDHD Brain
In my last post I wrote about the difference between autism rituals, compulsion and OCD. But there is one more label that tends to follow people like me around, […]
Ritual, Order and the Chaos in Between: AuDHD and the Compulsion Question
Let me tell you about my bookshelf. The books are organised by height, tallest on the left, shortest on the right. They have been organised this way for as […]
Going Off the Rails on a Crazy Train: My AuDHD Morning Routine
Every morning, Nana Mouskouri arrives the moment I open the blinds. “Guten Morgen Sonnenschein” firing up in my brain like an alarm clock nobody asked for, and stays for however […]