There are people who reach adulthood with the feeling that they have spent a lifetime trying to understand why everything seems harder than it should be. Not necessarily impossible. Not necessarily visible from the outside. But hard in a constant, subtle, tiring way. Hard to start. Hard to stop....
Category Archives: Neurodivergence
If you have ADHD, you probably already know what Monday morning looks like when your brain decides it’s not cooperating. But do you know why this happens? And more importantly, do you know that there’s a fundamental difference between not being able to and not wanting to? The first...
A conversation with Dr. Yath Ramesh, a psychiatrist specializing in ADHD A personal note before we begin I have been working with adults for many years, and like any clinician who follows the literature, I have experienced a significant change in the way we understand ADHD in the last...
Adult ADHD remains, in many contexts, poorly understood or interpreted through frameworks that do not capture the true complexity of this condition. In practice, we frequently encounter adults who have spent years trying to “function like others,” and their difficulties have often been explained by lack of willpower, resistance,...
We are all made up of multiple sides of ourselves: we have different parts of ourselves, each with their own thoughts, emotions, and ways of reacting. Sometimes, for people who identify as autistic, with ADHD, or a combination of AuDHD, these parts can be very visible and can seem...
The model proposed by Jaak Panksepp (2011) describes the existence of seven primary motivational systems, deeply rooted in the subcortical structures of the brain. These systems, common to all mammals, underlie fundamental behaviors, emotional reactions, and the way we connect with others – contributing to both healthy development and...
If you have ADHD, you might notice that in moments of panic, stress, or when a deadline is looming, you suddenly become a productivity genius. Like a last-minute superhero, you dive into action and work magic. And who wouldn’t want to feel like that? But let’s be honest: what...
One of the hardest things about living with ADHD is that it seems almost impossible to explain. Many times people diagnose themselves with ADHD casually, saying they “have it too”, just because they get lost in the daily barrage of notifications and distractions. But ADHD is much more than...
Monotropism: A Key to Understanding Autism Monotropism is a theory of autism originally developed by researchers Dinah Murray and Wenn Lawson. This theory suggests that monotropic minds tend to focus their attention more intensely on a small number of interests at a time, leaving fewer resources available for other...