15/01/2026
🌈As a neurodivergent practitioner, I want to name something I am noticing with care.
My feed is increasingly full of posts that promise clarity about neurodivergence.
What helps.
What does not.
What actually works.
I notice myself getting activated, and then pausing!!
🌟When neurodivergent experience is distilled into formulas, masterclasses, strategies or certainty, something essential can be lost…
Lived experience becomes simplified. Complexity is flattened.
Difference is quietly standardised.
Education matters.
Shared language matters.
Peer wisdom matters.
But there is a difference between honouring lived experience and extracting it into something marketable. 😡
We have seen this pattern before, particularly within LGBTQI+ communities. 🌈Visibility expands.
A market follows.
What begins as affirmation can slide into consumption!!
For many neurodivergent people, the struggle is NOT a lack of strategies.
It is a lack of safety, accommodation, relational attunement, and people and systems willing to meet difference without requiring conformity.
🌟This is not a rejection of learning. It is a call for discernment, integrity, humility, respect, and depth.
To stay curious about who benefits, and whose needs are actually being met.
‼️When the focus shifts too heavily towards “what works”, the unspoken message can become: “if you are still struggling, you are doing it wrong.”
That framing places the weight back on the individual, rather than on the environments that shape distress.
🫶Neurodivergence is not a problem to be solved. It is lived, embodied, relational, and deeply contextual.
Holding this as an ongoing ethical reflection.
