Neurodiversity & Families

The school meeting, the parking lot, the grief nobody lets you say. A therapist and spectrum mom on support for parents of neurodivergent children.

Relief, anger, grief for the years. A therapist diagnosed at 42 on the three versions of you after a late ADHD diagnosis, and how acceptance gets built.

Texting back on a dopamine spike, hyper-organised then chaos, feeling a mood shift before anyone speaks. Seven signs of ADHD in women we often miss.

If you have been lucky enough to love a person who lives with autism, you already know the thing no one warns you about. It is not the hard parts. They warn you about those early and often. It is the joy. The joy no one warns you about When you start raising a child with autism, they hand you the pamphlets and the waitlists and the words. Delay. Deficit. Disorder. They describe your child as a list of things that did not arrive on schedule, and no one in that room ever thinks

Most people have never heard the word masking, and almost everyone is doing some version of it. Masking is what it sounds like. It is the work of hiding the real you to pass as whatever the room expects. For a person who lives with autism, it can look like forcing eye contact that actually hurts, swallowing a stim that would have brought relief, scripting a conversation in advance, copying other people's faces and tones, and holding all of it together until you finally get to

Autism parent burnout looks like competence and hides a grief no one names, for the parent holding it all together. Online therapy in MB, SK, AB and BC.