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.
“We are all of us exceedingly complex creatures and do ourselves a service in regarding ourselves as complex. Otherwise, we live in a dream world of non-existent, simplistic black and white notions which simply do not apply to life.” Theodore Rubin, American psychologist. I am not a psychologist or a psychiatrist; I am not a…
Autism ADHD and so much more. 