#neurodivergentlife — Public Fediverse posts
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The Practice Doesn’t End
There is no graduation from this practice. Not because you're doing it wrong. Because the practice is not the path to something else. It is the thing itself. The ongoing, never-quite-complete project of knowing yourself honestly and responding to what you find. The work and the living are not sequential. They are the same thing.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/the-practice-doesnt-end-2/
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When Your Growth Creates Space for Others
Growth is not just internal. It changes what you put into a room. What others read from you. What they allow themselves to do in your presence. The people who share a home with you gradually update their read. And as that read updates, something in how they inhabit the shared space changes too.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/when-your-growth-creates-space-for-others/
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The Patterns You Can Only See From a Distance
Some patterns are too large to see from inside them. The patterns that run across seasons and years require a vantage point that only time and a consistent record can provide. Most people never have access to this. Not because they lack self-awareness. Because they lack the record.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/the-patterns-you-can-only-see-from-a-distance/
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When the Body Is the Signal
The body sends the signal first. Before you've formulated a thought about what's happening, your shoulders have risen or your jaw has set or your gut has contracted. The thinking is the translation. The body is the original. The practice has been reading the translation. It's time to look at the source.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/when-the-body-is-the-signal/
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What Rest Actually Is
Most people confuse rest with not working. Not working is necessary but it isn't the same as rest. Rest is the state in which the nervous system runs below its demand threshold long enough for real recovery. For neurodivergent minds, the conditions that make that possible are more specific than the usual advice allows for.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/what-rest-actually-is/
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Burnout. The Real Thing.
Burnout is not tiredness that a better routine will fix. It's the accumulated cost of sustained output at above-capacity, over long enough that the deficit compounds. For neurodivergent adults masking in environments not designed for them, the baseline cost is higher and the gap closes faster than anyone on the outside can see.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/burnout-the-real-thing/
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I’m currently going through a phase where—cranky rhino that I am—I simply cannot stand it when the people around me are completely ignorant about autism and force me to explain why certain things are exhausting for me. I’m really at my limit because of it.
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When a Hard Season Arrives
The practice doesn't protect you from hard seasons. It doesn't insulate you from loss or difficulty. What it gives you is a more accurate address for the pain. Being in difficulty with more clarity is different from being in difficulty in confusion. It doesn't make it less. But it changes what you can do with it.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/when-a-hard-season-arrives/
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The Practice Doesn’t End
There is no graduation from this practice. Not because you're doing it wrong. Because the practice is not the path to something else. It is the thing itself. The ongoing, never-quite-complete project of knowing yourself honestly and responding to what you find. The work and the living are not sequential. They are the same thing.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/the-practice-doesnt-end/
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I'd like to do a round table about being neurodivergent and having food intolerance/allergies and grief.
I'd love to chat with 2-3 people on a Zoom call.
If you would be interested, please reach out through my contact form.
https://feathermanesoul.com/contact/
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #AlphaGal #FoodAllergies #Neurodivergent #NeurodivergentLife
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Building Yourself at This Age
Building identity deliberately, as an adult, after years of carrying a version that was partly constructed for you, is real work. Not reinvention. Renovation. Deciding what you're not. Giving space to what was compressed. Building new reference points. Becoming, slowly and honestly, someone you can actually recognise as yourself.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/building-yourself-at-this-age/
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When It Finally Has a Name
The diagnosis arrived and changed how the earlier chapters read. The school years. The workplace difficulties. The exhaustion that never quite matched the workload. All of it looked different. Clarifying, because you could finally see what was happening. Difficult, because the time it took couldn't be given back.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/when-it-finally-has-a-name/
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What’s Actually You
How much of what you think of as your personality is actually yours? Not a rhetorical question. A genuine inquiry: when you name your traits and tendencies, how much of that is genuinely intrinsic, and how much developed in response to conditions you didn't choose and pressures you had no language to resist?https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/whats-actually-you/
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The Version of You That Was Built for Someone Else
Most of us have a version of ourselves that was built for a specific environment. It built gradually, in response to what the environments around us needed. The question worth sitting with is how much of that identity was chosen, and how much was shaped by pressure you had no language to resist.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/the-version-of-you-that-was-built-for-someone-else/
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🤔Ever notice how "just take a bubble bath" does nothing when your brain is completely fried?
Traditional self-care often asks for more effort and planning than a depleted ADHD brain can spare, so it lands as another chore you're failing at.
The tricks that work tend to be quick, sensory, and guilt-free, like a cold-water reset or a head-to-toe shake-out that signals safety to your nervous system.
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i have just spent my afternoon sorting out my weekly routine now that university is back in session.
Most of Wednesday I will be online for lectures from from 1:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon, then again from 5:30 to 7:30 in the evening. I normally eat at 5, so that gap in the middle is non-negotiable, and I will be honest, the evening stretch after dinner is going to require some deliberate energy management on my part.Saturdays I will be online from 3:30 to 5:00 in the afternoon, which is a much more manageable block and feels like a gentler way to end the weekend. and of course, there are assessments to do in between all that.
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #NDCommunity #OnlineNow #Availability #DisabilityPride #NeurodivergentLife #Counselling
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When the Old Version of You Pulls Back
Progress has a pull in both directions. The better things start going, the harder the pull back towards old patterns tends to be. This isn't failure. It's not proof the work doesn't work. It's the oldest version of you reasserting itself. And it deserves a proper response.https://journalingwrite.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/when-the-old-version-of-you-pulls-back/
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What if you didn’t optimize anything this week? This Sunday reflection offers permission to rest without fixing, improving, or planning ahead. Awareness without action. A soft place to land before the week turns again.
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Sustainable systems aren’t built for perfect days. They’re built to work when energy is low. This post explores designing workflows that forgive inconsistency, reduce decisions, and still function on bad brain days.
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Felipe’s been digging through the archives again. This week’s forage looks at what actually reduces cognitive load, and what only looks helpful at first. Gentle pattern recognition, myth-busting, and systems that get out of the way.
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Overwhelm isn’t always about doing too much. Often, it’s about carrying too many invisible steps. This post explores hidden cognitive labor, why it drains energy, and how noticing the system—not blaming yourself—can bring relief.
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“Simple” systems still require upkeep. Over time, that maintenance can become exhausting. This post explores maintenance fatigue, why even minimal tools drain energy, and how to design systems that don’t collapse when life gets messy.
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Feeling exhausted even when nothing “gets done”? Decision-making is real work, even when it leaves no visible output. This post explores decision fatigue, cognitive load, and why exhaustion isn’t a personal failure.
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This week’s Lantern Light is a gentle check-in on cognitive load, invisible labor, and doing less without fixing yourself. Includes a writing prompt, blog highlights, BTS reflections, and a soft Sol-to-Soul closing.
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My Pantry, My Power: Cooking, Creativity, and Dignity When Times Are Tight
Hustle culture promotes constant productivity, but true creativity thrives on rest and dignity. Our pantries symbolize power and nourishment, deserving respect without shame. Embrace substitutions, bulk meals, discounted items, and creative uses of staples and leftovers. Remember, every meal counts, and seeking help is a sign of strength, not weakness.https://dreamspacestudio.net/my-pantry-my-power-cooking-creativity-and-dignity-when-times-are-tight/
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Don’t Tell Me to Make a To-Do List (Unless You Want Tears and Glitter)
If you've ever turned a planner into a shame scrapbook, this one’s for you. ADHD chaos, executive dysfunction, and unhinged humor—wrapped in glitter and iced coffee.https://dreamspacestudio.net/dont-tell-me-to-make-a-to-do-list-unless-you-want-tears-and-glitter/
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🌱 Growth is messy. It’s not all breakthroughs and lightbulb moments.
Sometimes it’s doubt. Sometimes it’s falling apart before things come together.Messy doesn’t mean wrong. Messy means you’re in it.
#FluxPathways #MindfulnessSupport #GrowthMindset #Resilience #ADHDLife #PersonalDevelopment #EmotionalWellbeing #OvercomingBurnout #SelfAwareness #InnerWork #ADHDAwareness #NeurodivergentLife #MentalHealthMatters #HealingJourney #ClarityOverChaos #MelbourneCoach
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Today I went to my tutorial after spending some time outdoors. Still sick — blocked nose, low-level headache. This thing has dragged on since Easter, on and off. I’m getting my meds tomorrow and will ask the doctor to check me out properly. Yesterday was the FCA and I’m still recovering from that too. Had chicken and veg for dinner. Quiet night.
#AutisticLife #NDIS #ChronicIllness #FCA #DisabilitySupport #NeurodivergentLife #BlindAndAutistic #EverydayLife
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Today was the real start of my semester at UOW. I had a meeting with disability support to get everything in place, since I officially began yesterday. My first tutorial is at 3:30 this afternoon, followed by a lecture straight after. It feels good to be settling in and starting to find my rhythm.
I also contacted HumanWare about my Brailliant Braille display, which has been giving me some issues. Thankfully, it’s still under warranty, so I’ll be sending it off for repairs tomorrow. Fingers crossed it comes back in good shape!
Tonight’s dinner is chicken schnitzel with mashed potatoes and veggies, prepared by my husband, who is an absolutely brilliant cook. I feel very lucky.
#AutisticAndAcademic #BlindStudent #DisabilitySupport #BrailleTechnology #HumanWare #AccessibleLearning #FirstWeekOfUni #NeurodivergentLife #Grateful #SensoryJoy #DisabilityPride
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It’s the start of winter, and for the first time in a long while, I’m really feeling the cold. I’ve been wearing a cardigan inside, which is unusual for me. There’s something almost grounding about it, though. Maybe it means I’m finally beginning to feel my body more clearly. That in itself feels like quiet progress.
Church today went OK. Rehearsals are still somewhat difficult. I haven’t quite settled back into that rhythm. Once the service begins, though, something shifts. Things tend to flow better, and I can let my voice come through without holding back. My top notes aren’t fully back to where they were before the bout of tonsillitis a few weeks ago, but they’re getting there slowly.
Someone is visiting later, and I’m impatient for the time to pass. Waiting has never been my strength, especially when the day feels stretched thin.
Next week looks more or less the same. I have exercise scheduled for Monday and Thursday, and support appointments on Tuesday and Saturday. Study threads through the gaps. Two online classes this trimester, focused on models of counselling and ethics in the counselling profession.
If I’m honest, the routine is getting a bit monotonous, especially the exercise side of things. Still, repetition isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes it’s what keeps everything else from unravelling.
#CPTSDRecovery #WinterReflections #NeurodivergentLife #SingingThroughIt #MasterOfCounselling #OnlineStudy #ChurchAndHealing #TonsillitisRecovery #StructuredLiving #ProcessingTheOrdinary
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Most of us think we’re great communicators—but are we really? 🤔
✅ Listen actively (not just wait for your turn to talk).
✅ Express gratitude meaningfully.
✅ Be honest without being a jerk.
✅ Read the room (EQ matters!).
✅ Respect boundaries in conversations.Master these 5 habits, and watch your relationships transform. 🌱
#Communication #ActiveListening #EmotionalIntelligence #Relationships #NeurodivergentLife #SelfGrowth
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Exactly one year ago, I published my first book, Inside the Autside! 🌟 Thanks to your feedback, the book is now available in a revised hardcover edition.
#InsideTheAutside #AutismAwareness #Neurodiversity #AutiEthnography #OliverSacksInspiration #AutismAlly #NeurodiverseStories #AutismAcceptance #BestsellerBook #ChristmasGiftIdea #RevisedEdition #HardcoverBooks #NeurodivergentLife #ActuallyAutistic
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A few things I love about being #ActuallyAutistic 1. My special interests its fun reading science books for hours and watching interesting science content on YouTube. 2. Its amazing to make friends with other #Neurodivergent people and learning about their special interests and chatting with them and relating to each others experiences. 3. Its really cool to listen to music for hours especially the same song sometimes I will repeat certain parts of a song I really really love over and over again I can never get tired of that.!!! #NeurodivergentLife #3GoodThings
