A time of sadness
As life quiets and reflection deepens, clarity may bring difficult questions about career, relationships, and meaning. This sadness isn’t pathological—it’s part of finding your true direction.
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"What makes me neurotypical"
This video is, maybe, the perfect distillation of how the ways we test for neurological differences—in my language, neuro-deviances—are... dumb and bad.
Client dialogue - following up on medication with Josephine
From “holy shit, is this what normal feels like?” to crashing off a cliff at 3pm, Josephine’s ADHD meds journey wasn’t quick or clean. It took time, self-advocacy, and stubborn hope to find the right med, dose—and duration.
Client dialogue: Adhd and Trauma and Bears... oh my.
What follows is a writing project I worked on with a client. The thing that is missing from the vast majority of work written on psychotherapy is the voice of clients.
Meme of the week: Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
APD is not a thing for which there is cure in the form of a pill. APD is a way in which your brain interprets an aspect of the world, i.e. the auditory part of the world. APD gets better when the environments in which you exist takes into consideration your form of auditory processing.
Why? vs Why not?
When we ask the question why, we are inquiring about the causes of things. It is my hypothesis that those of who are neuro-deviant have a special relationship with causality, and I think it has a profound effect on the way we experience our world and the way we spend our metabolic resources.
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Feelings vs Emotions, Part II: Dirty Fuels and Fatigue
In today’s post, I will focus on emotions. “Emotions,” as Damasio notes in Part 1 “indicate actions,” and then later describes them as “concerts of actions.”
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Feelings vs Emotions, Part I: Loud Bodies
The language of psychology can be confusing. But the use of precise language is critically important to the process of counselling, because we cannot attend to the parts of the world that we cannot name.
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What is adult adhd?
Adult adhd is not a thing. It is as I described in a my previous post: a corrupt name that follows a corrupt concept.
Meme of the week: I forgot to take my highly addictive drugs
This one is going to be a bit of a screed. To all the good and empathetic doctors out there... you can sit this one out.
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The stories of Fidgety Phillip and Johnny-head-in-air
The stories of Fidgety Phillip and Johnny head-in-air were written by Heinrich Hoffman in the mid-19th century. Hoffman was a Physician and Psychiatrist professionally but is best remembered for his illustrated children's stories called Struwwelpeter.
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An immodest proposal on the language of neurological difference
I'm don't feel great about the language we currently use to describe and denote those of us who have a neurological difference.