Living an autistic and ADHD life. What's it really like? I explore how I feel the world differently and challenge the myths, the misunderstanding and the misconceptions.
I am not sure that society understands the many ways that people feel, and hear, and see the world differently. And I would like us to change that.
The negative language and lists of deficits and impairments drive the stereotypes and make people reluctant to recognise or identify that they may be neurodivergent or neurodifferent. I am autistic, ADHD and dyspraxic but so many other conditions and issues affect neurology. Some we are born with and some, like depression, anxiety, PTSD and CPTSD, we acquire through life and trauma, abuse and accident.
Newsletter for November Can society ever be friendly to people who feel the world differently? For fifty years I believed, naively, that we all felt the world in the same way, and presumed that I just wasn’t doing it well enough. I presumed that I was the problem. And since everyone around me told me…
Autism ADHD and so much more. 