Tag: adhd
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Maybe I wasn’t so good at masking my AuDHD after all…..
Increasingly the role of masking our differences as neurodivergent people has been coming to the forefront in conversations. Is something I’ve been speaking about for a while too, and masking makes sense of a lot of my experiences and why I don’t fit into some of the older school stereotypes out there around autism and…
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Do I regret being so open about my neurodivergence online?
I have been posting online about my experience of being neurodivergent for some time now. It all started 7 years ago when I finally received my late autism diagnosis, and then my ADHD diagnosis a year later. Even compared to now, it felt like there were a lot fewer openly neurodivergent people. It’s something I…
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My Top Neurodivergent Reads of 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, I thought I’d share my top neurodivergent reads of the year as a neurodivergent author and writer. I’ve selected these books based on my Story Graph ratings over the year. All of which I either rated 4.75 stars or 5 stars. Although I have rated some books on Goodreads…
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Why ABA will never be ‘neuroaffirming’
I didn’t think I’d need to write this post, as there have been extensive critiques of ABA from many autistic people before. However, I am concerned by the rise of people trying to rebrand ABA as ‘neuroaffirming’, which I don’t think is being talked enough about or called out. So here is why ABA will…
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AuDHD and my experiences of monotropism
*Please not I am speaking entirely from personal experiences and not seeking to make universal claims about autism, ADHD, AuDHD and monotropism Monotropism is a theory that was created by Dinah Murray and Wenn Lawson to describe autistic people’s experiences when it comes to attention. Those who are monotropic seem to be able to hyperfocus…
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The Impact of Labels: Why Autism and ADHD Matter
And what the Age of Diagnosis got wrong! There is a lot of fear mongering around people identifying with autism and ADHD as labels. It’s been going on in the media for a while now, but it’s been amplified with the recent publication of the book ‘Age of Diagnosis’. The author questions the rising diagnosis…
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AuDHD and why is decision making so hard!
I consider myself an autonomous person, and it’s something I value greatly and wouldn’t trade it for anything. I wouldn’t want anybody else making my decisions for me. However, that doesn’t automatically translate to decision making being a straightforward process for myself as my neurodivergence can make this more complicated. Let me give you an…
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How childhood masking affects me today as a neurodivergent adult
I have always been neurodivergent, so naturally it’s had a big influence on my life. However, something I’ve learnt through self reflection recently is how masking as a child has very much informed my life as an adult. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of masking, it’s a term used…
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Young, Autistic and ADHD: 4 Days to go until publication!
If you have been following me on social media, then you would have been well aware that I have been posting about the publication of my first book ‘Young, Autistic and ADHD: Moving into adulthood when you’re multiply-neurodivergent’ A LOT. However, it not every day you have a book published and I am just so…
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9 things I’d like my younger neurodivergent self to know.
For those of us who have always been neurodivergent, but discover that we are when we are adults, we can have a lot of feelings about how things could have been. Although this is something I have made peace with now, there are still things I wish my younger self knew about being neurodivergent. Yes…
Sarah Boon 
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