AD(H)S und Allergie - gibt es einen Zusammenhang?
ReizĂĽberflutung im Ă–PNV: Wenn die Fahrt zur Qual wird
Wer mit Bus und Bahn fährt, kann der Dauerbeschallung mit Ansagen, Türen-Piepen und flackernder Werbung kaum entrinnen. Für reizsensible Menschen ist das ein Problem. Für sie ist der ÖPNV nicht barrierefrei. Helfen könnten „Stille Stunden“, wie in einigen Supermärkten. Praxistest mit einer Betroffenen.
Ständige Anpassung: Burnout bei ADHS und Autismus verhindern
So tun, als ob man »normal« ist, um in die Welt zu passen: Mit »Masking« wollen sich viele Menschen mit ADHS oder Autismus schützen, es bewirkt jedoch das Gegenteil. Expertinnen erklären, wie man erkennt, dass nichts mehr geht – und was man dann tun kann.
So tun, als ob man »normal« ist, um in die Welt zu passen: Mit »Masking« wollen sich viele Menschen mit ADHS oder Autismus schützen, es bewirkt jedoch das Gegenteil. Expertinnen erklären, wie man erkennt, dass nichts mehr geht – und was man dann tun kann.
ADHD Isn’t a Trauma Response
I am inundated with Instagram ads telling me that “ADHD is not laziness, it’s a trauma response.” Well actually, it's neither! These falsehoods are so popular, yet so wrong.
Lone Wolfing: The Joys of Autistic Solitude
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.  Alice Koller It is commonly held that autistic people are lonelier than non-autistic people. This is believed to be […]
The Neurodiversity Smorgasbord: An Alternative Framework for Understanding Differences Outside of Diagnostic Labels — Lived Experience Educator
Before I introduce The Neurodiversity Smorgasbord, I would like to acknowledge that this framework which I started to develop in 2022 has been inspired, shaped, influenced by movements that have come before as well as Mad, Disabled and Neurodivergent Indigenous and Black scholars, thinkers, writers
Its just Autism, What are you scared of?
The Autism Integration Paradox
Education Access: We’ve Turned Classrooms Into a Hell for Neurodivergence
We have autistic children who need us to support them as architects of their own liberation against the schools and clinicians and institutions and police and prosecutors who would crush and destroy them. AUTISTIC HOYA: THE NEURODIVERSITY MOVEMENTS NEEDS ITS SHOES OFF, AND FISTS UP. The picture shows a school classroom as I see it, […]
'Neural noise' could be a hidden advantage of the autistic mind
Recent research reveals that the 'neural noise' often seen in autistic brains may enhance their cognitive performance in certain tasks.