Best-Selling Author, International Speaker, Published Researcher, Specialising in Autism, ADHD, AuDHD & Dyslexia
There are weeks where the body and brain feel flat — not unmotivated, not burned out, just tired. The kind of tired that doesn’t respond to a coffee, a snack, or a short break away from the screen. As a self-employed neurodivergent professional, these weeks can feel particularly uncomfortable. There’s work to do. Clients to support. …
Self-care has become one of those phrases that’s everywhere — often reduced to bubble baths, gym routines, or advice that assumes everyone has the same energy, body, and nervous system. For many autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD people, that version of self-care simply doesn’t fit. For me, self-care isn’t about doing more, fixing myself, or forcing …
Many autistic people learn early to hide parts of themselves. Not because there is something wrong with who they are, but because the world often responds poorly to difference. Masking and camouflaging are survival strategies. They develop in environments where misunderstanding, judgment, or exclusion are common, and where being visibly different can feel unsafe. Over …
Workplace social skills. These words strike fear into the soul of any autistic person. I know this, because I am one of those people. I’ve had a tumultuous employment past, prior to my official diagnosis of Asperger syndrome (autism), ADHD and dyslexia in 2009. I never truly understood the “workplace social skills”, even though I …
Information and technology (IT) has boomed over the past 30 years and become an integral part of the modern developed world. Employment opportunities in IT exploded alongside this growth and created pathways for autistic people in finding job security in an industry that has been stigmatized as the place where the ‘geeks’ gravitate. Software giants …
Reproduced from spectrumwomen.com Peering over the fence, I could see a couple of teenage girls firing up their road trail bikes…. I thought they were the coolest chicks on earth. I was 15 years old then, and never before had a second thought about motorbikes… until that day. Kitted up in their bike gear, the …