STORY TIME! I have a love hate relationship with the children’s museum. The exhibits are so cool and interactive. But the acoustics are difficult and when there are large groups of children it can quickly become very overstimulating. This week we noticed a lot people seemed to be out of town on vacation. So we […]

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I have received a second opinion and they diagnosed me ADHD! No deliberation or anything, just at the end of the call she immediately diagnosed me and prescribed meds. Fingers crossed it helps me be a functioning human. Thanks for the support you folks gave me after the last disaster of an assessment

So what does neuro-affirming practice actually look like?

Neuro-affirming practice is about being human with others, with empathy and attunement.

I think it looks like arriving without an agenda, following someone’s lead, not strategically, but out of genuine curiosity about their inner world. It looks like understanding that every person is already a meaning-maker: that meaning lives…

Last month we sent How it Feels to Me out to beta readers and have been completely blown away. And we’re officially recruiting a book launch team! In case you missed it here is the cover reveal (and a peek inside!) Help us spread the word by joining our launch team… the Pollinator Pals. There […]

I've spent the last six months testing out pencil grips and handwriting supports for myself and my neurodivergent child. Here are my favorites and the pros and cons of each choice.

Did you know that most people don’t notice the feeling of clothing tags? I used to think that everyone felt the same itchy irritation I did, and that I was just worse at coping. But, when I started researching sensory processing to support my own child, I learned something life shattering. I wasn’t worse at […]

Visual mental imagery and visual working memory are often thought to be closely related. After all, both have been argued to involve the temporary maintenance of visual representations in conscious awareness. We might expect, therefore, that individuals with aphantasia would show impairments in visual working memory performance. However, demonstrating this has proven surprisingly difficult.…

Neurodivergent design is the study and practice of shaping environments around the diversity of human minds.

Regulation and participation are ecological achievements, not individual responsibilities.

AutChat is an ongoing Blusky hashtag and weekly scheduled chat for autistic people and people with similar neurodivergences. We began as a Twitter hashtag, but have moved to Blusky as of summer 2024. Self-diagnosed / community-recognized people are welcome, as are people questioning / wondering whether they might be autistic.

Psychology has a name for this pattern: hyperindependence. It often forms when someone has to self-manage too early, whether emotionally, practically, or both. Independence becomes a strength — but also a shield.

And when independence gets built too early, it can quietly cost you the thing that depends on mutual reliance the most: close friendship.

Studies on early self-management…

Hyper Curiosity...I like it.

I’m back this week with an update on the picture book How it Feels to Me. This is a book about neurodivergence and sensory processing I’m co-creating with illustrator Gracie Klumpp. It’s fully crowdfunded and coming out later this year! Last year we ran into some challenges due to substandard quality of our first proof. […]