Reflections on autism, ADHD and AuDHD – burnout, masking, managing strong emotions and more – exploring what it's like to navigate a world not built for neurodivergent minds, and how therapy can help.
Have you ever noticed something unfair and felt it really hit you, long after everyone else has moved on? If that sounds familiar, you might have high justice sensitivity. It’s something I often see in my neurodivergent clients, particularly those who are autistic, ADHD or AuDHD. Justice sensitivity is a heightened awareness of fairness, inequality and wrongdoing, and in neurodivergent people, it can be stronger, more emotionally intense and slower to fade than it is for othe
Do you have days where you struggle to function, or you can’t even think straight? Has it ever got to the point where it feels like your brain has gone offline? Do you get stuck in thought loops, thinking the same things over and again? Perhaps you find that a single event or outing knocks you with exhaustion and you need a whole day to recover afterwards? If you are autistic or suspect you are and this sounds familiar, you might be struggling with autistic fatigue or burnou
