30/10/2025
Can I let you into a little secret?
Sometimes I don’t follow my own advice.
I’ll sit down to “just make one post”…
or start tidying one drawer…
and before I know it, two hours have passed, the kitchen’s spotless, and I haven’t eaten a thing.
I used to have no idea what was going on.
I’d get so frustrated with myself - like, how can I not even manage the basics?
A few years ago, I was teaching 30 kids every day…
and now I can’t seem to get through a morning without feeling behind.
What I didn’t know back then is that this is time blindness - when your brain literally loses track of time.
Everyone does it sometimes, but for a neurodivergent brain, it hits harder.
Our sense of time is more now or not now,
so we hyperfocus, forget to eat, and only realise when we crash — starving, shaky, and grabbing sugar.
There are still days when it happens,
but now I understand it - and that’s changed everything.
I don’t spiral or punish myself anymore.
I just make sure my next meal is balanced… I definitely don’t skip it 💚
Because food isn’t about perfection.
It’s about learning how your brain works
and finding calm, realistic ways to nourish it - even on messy days.
