AuDHD Flourishing

157 Your Brain Learns Fast

Part of what hyperneuroplasticity means is that your brain learns quickly on many fronts... including from negative data. This has some obvious downsides! The good news

156 Hyperneuroplasticity with Dr Patty Gently

Dr. Patty Gently is one of the most important researchers and voices in the gifted neurodivergence space. Her free online community, Bloomers, has a few thousand mostly 2

How to Make Projects Happen - Repost

AuDHD brains face many challenges when it comes to projects. It's something I've put a great deal of time and learning into, both personally and professionally. This epis

155 Making & Keeping Friends

Making friends is hard. Developing and keeping those friendships is hard. It's literally work! Today I talk about my friendship journey, more to give examples and share

154 Friendship Skills with Caroline Maguire

Caroline Maguire is passionate about learning how to bring your whole neurodivergent self to friendships... and not scaring people off! Her book, Friendship Skills for N

153 Polyamory & Community Bonds

Thanks for the great topic suggestion from the community: polyamory & strengthening community bonds. Those are quite intertwined for me, since I've been out as poly/RA an

152 You Can't Trick a Nervous System

My cats Mac & Cheese (see episode pic) have been having a hard time. I've learned a lot observing their reactive nervous systems because it's so easy to feel compassion f

151 The Skill No One Knew You Needed

The skill no one knew you needed: how to emotionally regulate while doing a task. It's simple yet difficult. And undiagnosed neurodivergent parents were even less likely

150 The Wall of Awful with Brendan Mahan

Brendan Mahan's concept of The Wall of Awful has taken on a life of its own. While originally geared toward ADHD, it's also extremely applicable to other neurodivergent f

149 The Consistency That Matters

"Consistency" can feel like a dirty word in neurodivergent land... Consistency is a tool, not a final answer. It can be a better fit than habits for our brains (see pas

148 Breaking Bad Habits

Builds on last two episodes: Self-Awareness vs. Solutions and Habits are Hard (but also very cool) Breaking "bad" habits is different (and more difficult) than building

147 Habits are Hard (but also very cool)

There's some evidence that ADHD brains in particular may have trouble forming habits as they're traditionally thought of. But that doesn't mean they have no value for us!

146 Self-Awareness vs. Solutions

You may have been told that you're "so self-aware," yet struggle to actually implement solutions. In the moment, you might be lacking the support, the executive function,

145 Mediocrity is a Needed Step

In the context of learning a musical instrument, it's obvious that there's a period of not being good at it. Whether you call it mediocrity or a skill gap, there's often

144 Don't Do All the Things

Trying to do all of the things, all of the time is a recipe for being stuck. Instead, do some of the things, some of the time. The episode also talks about a couple of

143 Creative Blocks & Insecurities

Last week we talked about creative entrepreneurship. This episode is about my recent & current creative blocks and insecurities that cover some of the difficulties of be

142 Neurodivergent Creative Entrepreneur with Jon Hart

Jon Hart is building an online space for neurodivergent musicians. And our conversation focused on the entrepreneurship side of things, because occasionally our disabilit

141 Predictive Processing - another autism explanation

Predictive Processing (or coding) differences are a relatively new proposed idea about an underlying mechanism of autism. Preliminary studies do show differences, but not

140 What's Your Energy Level?

I just had a shocking experience regarding my own energy levels while on vacation. Truly, I never would have predicted it even if you laid out all of the details going in

You Are Not a Burden - Repost

The story of a meltdown. For me these days, that includes some intrusive thoughts around being a burden. You are not a burden. And even if we are sometimes, that's okay.