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Why Autistic People Info-Dump and Why You Should Let Them There is a particular look that autistic people recognize. Someone asks a question — sometimes a casual one, sometimes a genuine one — and the...
Read article →The Energy Economy Nobody Explains Everyone has limits on social energy. The concept is broadly understood — at some point in an evening, most people feel ready to leave. What is less broadly understo...
Read article →Autism and Special Interests — The Deep Dive That Brings Meaning Ask an autistic person about their special interest and something changes. The pace of speech picks up. The eyes sharpen. There is a qu...
Read article →Autism in Women — The Invisible Presentation Autism has long been understood through a lens built almost entirely from research on boys. The diagnostic criteria were developed from clinical observatio...
Read article →What It Means to Get an Answer in Your Forties An autism diagnosis at forty is not a beginning. It is a reinterpretation. Every memory of a social misstep that you analyzed for days afterward, every j...
Read article →The Collapse Nobody Sees Coming Autistic burnout is not a meltdown. It is not a bad day or a rough patch. It is a state of profound exhaustion — cognitive, emotional, and physical — that develops over...
Read article →The Performance That Never Ends Autism masking — also called camouflaging — is the practice of suppressing, modifying, or concealing autistic characteristics to appear more neurotypical in social sett...
Read article →The Pattern That Looks Like a Separate Problem Among the various challenges associated with ADHD, the co-occurrence with substance use disorders is one of the most consequential and least discussed. T...
Read article →The Connection People Notice First Ask someone with ADHD about creativity and they will often pause before answering. Not because the connection is unfamiliar — many are told their whole lives that th...
Read article →The Problem With Human Conversation Human conversation has rules that nobody wrote down. Eye contact communicates interest but too much communicates aggression. Silence after a statement can mean thou...
Read article →The Leaky Bucket Problem Working memory is the cognitive system that holds information in mind while you use it. It is what lets you remember the beginning of a sentence by the time you reach its end,...
Read article →The Relationship Pattern That Keeps Returning Romantic relationships involving at least one partner with ADHD tend to follow recognizable arcs. The early phase is often intensely positive — ADHD can g...
Read article →What Procrastination Actually Is The word procrastination implies a choice. It suggests that the task is there, the person is aware of the task, and the person is choosing to delay it in favor of some...
Read article →The Myth That ADHD Children Grow Out of It For decades, the standard clinical narrative was that ADHD was a childhood condition. Children were diagnosed, managed through school, and then — the assumpt...
Read article →Why Some Things Feel Impossible and Others Feel Effortless One of the most confusing features of ADHD, for the people who have it and for the people around them, is the inconsistency. The teenager who...
Read article →The ADHD Diagnosis That Changed Everything — Adult Stories Getting an ADHD diagnosis as an adult is not like getting a diagnosis for a new condition. It is more like receiving a key that retroactively...
Read article →The Symptom That Gets Left Off the List Ask most people to describe ADHD and they will mention inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. These are the three symptom clusters in the diagnostic crite...
Read article →Why Kindness Toward Yourself Is Not Weakness Self-compassion has a marketing problem. In a culture that prizes self-criticism as a motivator and toughness as a virtue, the idea of being gentle with yo...
Read article →The Workplace Designed for Someone Else Open plan offices became the dominant workplace design around the same time that neuroscience was quietly documenting everything wrong with them. The logic was...
Read article →The ADHD Shame Spiral and How to Get Out of It Shame and ADHD have a long, compounding relationship. It typically begins in childhood — the corrections, the disappointed faces, the report cards, the l...
Read article →Body Doubling for ADHD — Why Having Someone Nearby Helps You Focus Body doubling is not complicated to describe: the presence of another person in your environment while you work makes it significantl...
Read article →The Assumption That Costs Gifted Kids Years Intelligence is supposed to protect children from being overlooked. In the case of ADHD, it often does the opposite. The gifted child who cannot sit still g...
Read article →When Anxiety Meets ADHD Most people think of ADHD and anxiety as two separate problems sitting side by side. The reality is messier. In people who have both, the conditions actively feed each other —...
Read article →ADHD and Sleep — Why Your Brain Refuses to Shut Down at Night People with ADHD are disproportionately night owls. They stay up later than they intend to. They lie awake with a busy mind when they want...
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