As an undiagnosed neurodivergent kid, I really struggled in school. The kid who loved reading and obsessed over writing stories and attempting to harness my intense imagination was soon crushed by the machine of secondary school. I missed two years of secondary school due to refusing to attend (sensory overloaded and emotional overwhelm) and never fitting in caused massive detrimental effects on my education- my … Continue reading SEND Matters
I’d gone 8 days without a meltdown. 8 days. 8 days of meetings and zooms, of arrangements and chats, eye contact and conversations, dinner parties and hosting, digging and dancing, eating proper and sleeping well, planning and working, attempting to engage the hyperfocus, being the person I needed to be. But there I was yesterday afternoon, head hitting and swearing, raging and shaking, losing it because an app lost my bearings as my AuADHD mind temporarily lost mine. There was no warning, to play book rumble, no signpost in that particular Maccy D car park at that particular time of what was to come. Just the blow-up. Continue reading ADHD, Autism and me: Meltdown milkshake anyone?
Wildblood and Queenie 