Tag: autism
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There is a growing conversation happening in neurodivergent spaces. What if autism and ADHD are not just coexisting conditions, but different expressions of the same underlying neurotype? Not identical. But maybe not as separate as we have been told. The comorbidity statistics are hard to ignore. Between fifty and seventy percent of autistic people are…
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Because typical fitness advice doesn’t account for boredom, sensory hell, or executive dysfunction. I used to love the idea of fitness challenges. That first week where everything is shiny and new? Sign me up. Then week two rolls in and suddenly I’m resenting the thing I was obsessed with 5 minutes ago. If you have…
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What They Feel Like and Why It Matters Why we need to talk about this Shutdowns and meltdowns are common in AuDHD (autism + ADHD), but they’re often misunderstood, mislabelled, or missed entirely. These aren’t tantrums or dramatic outbursts. They’re nervous system responses. And understanding them changes everything. What’s actually happening: the nervous system side…
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Permission to stop pretending you’re someone you’re not. There’s a long list of things I thought I should be doing, because “normal” people do them, because influencers swear by them, or because some part of me thought they’d make me a better human. Spoiler: they didn’t. Here’s what I’ve stopped forcing – and how that’s…
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I used to call myself lazy every single day. I’d look around at the half-done laundry piles, the dishwasher I stacked but never emptied, the form I’ve been meaning to fill out for two weeks but keep forgetting until midnight – and I’d think, Why can’t I just get on with things like everyone else?…
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Some of the hardest things I’ve ever shared have been the things that helped someone else feel less alone. That’s the strange, beautiful truth about neurodivergent experiences – the very things we’ve been taught to hide are often the exact things that give other people permission to breathe. To unmask. To soften. To say same.…