When I was diagnosed as Autistic, almost 10 years ago now, it was a big awakening and the beginning of a journey. Continue reading The Cruelest Joke: When I Learned I Was Autistic and ADHD, I Realized That I Was Taught to Hate Myself for Being Exactly Who I Was Meant to Be.
Question for my late-identified Neurodivergent readers: Is there anything you wish you’d known or understood sooner?
If you could give one piece of advice to your younger, unidentified self, what would it be?
I am Neurodivergent, but I didn’t know it (or even what Neurodivergence or Neurodiversity was) for most of my life.
Being diagnosed Autistic, at the age of 29, a few months shy of my 30th birthday, during a mental health crisis, turned my world upside down. It also saved my life. Continue reading Growing Up Not Knowing About My Neurodivergent (Autistic and ADHD) Brain and What I Wish I Had Understood Sooner
We’re taught to compete and to measure our success against our peers. If we’re not “keeping up“ or falling “low in the ranks,” it is a failure. Continue reading I wasn’t lazy. The system was rigged. – Your ‘honor roll’ wasn’t hard work. It was privilege.
The Art of the Personal New Year: Why I Reset in Spring, Not Winter What I’m “Burying in the Ground” and What I’m Cultivating This Spring I’m going to be 39 this year. My birthday is in about a month (give or take a few days). I am a spring baby, born in Texas in March 1987. Spring is one of my favorite seasons (with Fall close behind). Here, in Texas, Spring has already sprung – and I am loving it! As far as Texas goes, while many of our laws and corrupt government officials and politicians are ass-backwards, the … Continue reading My Birthday is Next Month: Savoring Sunsets While Packing a Go Bag – Turning 39 in a Texas Spring
For years, I thought I was broken. The real problem was a system that couldn’t see my Neurodivergent mind. I wasn’t a bad student. I was a Neurodivergent one.
Continue reading Was I a bad student, or was school bad for me? – What my Autism diagnosis taught me about why school failed me.
Unmasking My Neurodivergence: The Invisible Weight of My Neurotypical Mask and the End of a War With Myself – An AuDHD Late-Diagnosis Story – When “Try Harder” Doesn’t Work Continue reading My Best Was Never Enough – I Was Called Lazy When I Was Trying My Hardest.
I Almost Convinced Myself I Wasn’t ADHD. Then a Deadline Proved Me Wrong. What Does a Healed, Untraumatized ADHDer Look Like? I’m determined to find out.
Continue reading ADHD and Me – Is It Trauma, Autism, ADHD, or… All of the Above?: Years After Being Diagnosed, THIS YEAR I’m Finally Unpacking My ADHD Identity
Getting More Done by Committing to Less, and why I now tackle my hardest work before 9 AM… and the gentle accountability that gets me there.
Continue reading Taming the Tedious Tasks: My AuDHD-Friendly Morning Strategy
I Don’t Fight Winter Anymore. Why I’ve learned to embrace the slow, quiet months—and how it sets the stage for everything that follows.
Continue reading What Winter Teaches Me – Surviving and Thriving in the Slow Season by Harnessing the Quiet: A Strategy for Winter Creativity
My entire life, my memory was like Swiss cheese. Then, after working on my trauma, a switch flipped. I could finally remember my days. That’s when I knew…
Continue reading ADHD, Complex Trauma, or BOTH? – A Fog Lifted: What Happened When I Finally Stopped Dissociating
