15/11/2025
You can be Autistic and chronically ill.
ADHD and in pain.
Gifted and disabled.
Brilliant, burned out, and barely coping — all at once.
And none of that cancels the other out.
🌀 Co-occurring conditions compound.
They layer.
They intersect.
They shape how we experience the world and how the world responds (or doesn’t) to us.
You might need:
Flexible pacing, because your capacity fluctuates hour to hour
Sensory regulation, because pain and overwhelm often go hand-in-hand
Assistance, even on your “good” days
Care that doesn’t force you to choose just one diagnosis, label, or struggle to be valid
But so often, support systems ask us to simplify.
To shrink our story into one neat box.
To address "one thing at a time"—as if we can separate our mind from our body, our identity from our access needs.
Here’s the truth:
🔸 You are not too much — your needs are just more than one.
🔸 You are not "making it up" — you're navigating an ecosystem of experiences.
🔸 You are not a contradiction — you're a whole person with intersecting realities.
Your complexity is not the problem — the lack of understanding is. And you deserve support that sees all of you.
