Living with more than one form of difference* often creates an experience that is felt long before it can be named or understood. Many people experience a persistent sense of being “out of sync” with the world, without being able to pinpoint the source of that feeling. For those with mixed cultural backgrounds, neurodivergent traits, […]
Living at the intersection of difference Read More »
Last week I had my assessment, and I’ve now had confirmation that I do indeed have ADHD. I went into it saying two things: that my brain no longer worked, and that I was worried I was “just a little bit sh1t”. It turns out both of those things were wrong. I’ve waited a week
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Since moving to Sweden, I’ve noticed a steady stream of posts – often anonymous – on various Facebook groups for expats and English speakers. Many of them come from parents trying to figure out how best to support a child with an autism or ADHD diagnosis, how to collaborate with schools, how to navigate daily
Navigating school and neurodivergence as a parent in Sweden Read More »
Recently, I’ve been watching a series of documentaries on base jumping and wingsuits with my 12-year-old. His intense excitement filled me with dread for his future, as I imagined him engaging in this dangerous activity and falling to harm. Yet as I watched with him, I felt excitement within me also – I got it,
Finding meaning through life, risk and loss Read More »
Living in a neurodivergent family can be tough, especially in a world that is not neuro-affirming, with schools and workplaces causing many ND children and adults excessive and unnecessary distress. As a parent of a neurodivergent child, how can you provide the best support? Learn as much as you can about your child’s diagnosis
Supporting your ND kids and young people Read More »
I identify as she/her, and I’ve always shared this openly across my platforms. I recently realised the privilege I hold in having never had to think about it – never questioning, never feeling uncertain. I’ve spent much of my life reflecting on aspects of my identity – being neurodivergent, growing up in a mixed-culture household,
Women’s Embodiment – the felt sense of womanhood Read More »
Throughout your life you’ve felt like you don’t quite know how to be an adult, that you’re somehow failing at adulting, or like your head is always dipping just below the water level, never quite achieving the potential that you and everyone else expected. You have this undercurrent of fear that someday soon your mask
Living with a late diagnosis: neurodivergence Read More »
I will not shy away from the difficult, the contentious, the painful. I will not allow myself to be cleaved, in two parts that ought never to have been separated, one side accepted, the other judged and condemned. I grew up being told by the world around me that the ‘male’ traits of assertiveness, power,
Yin and yang – the value of integration Read More »
I am an ADHDer. * When I first started out as a therapist, I worried that some of my ADHD traits would cause me difficulties in my work… – distraction – – forgetfulness – – difficulties with routines – – struggles with sensory overload – …but I have my ways of coping with these. Having
Working as an ADHD therapist Read More »
I’ve been thinking about identity, and the assumptions we make about people. Obviously there is a huge complexity to identity, for example some of the issues that are very popular in the media at the moment in terms of gender, sexual and relationship diversity or in terms of neurodivergence, but on a lighter level, on
The auras of people – what are they, what do they mean? Making sense of our assumptions Read More »
