Tag: mental-health
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Autistic Burnout or Depression? A Lifetime of Not Knowing
For years I couldn’t tell whether I was depressed or simply spent past what rest could reach. Here’s how I learnt to ask the difference.
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When You Stop Pretending You Don’t Need Directions: What an Adult Autism and ADHD Assessment Actually Feels Like
What an adult autism and ADHD assessment actually feels like. The fear, the tests, the tears, and what shifts before the results arrive. A personal account.
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Sitting with the Unknown: The Emotional Limbo After an Autism and ADHD Assessment
The assessment is over. The two-week wait begins. On circling thoughts, old self-doubt, and what surfaces when you stop moving long enough to sit with yourself.
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The Threads of Life: Growing Up as an Undiagnosed Neurodivergent Woman
A quiet childhood, a love of routine, and a lifetime of masking. Looking back at the signs of neurodivergence I missed for almost 40 years.
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A Heart Like Mine: Parenting a Child with Selective Mutism and Anxiety
My youngest has selective mutism and deep anxiety. He feels everything, the way I always did. What I am learning to hand a child whose heart is like mine.
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Is It All in My Head? Deciding to Get Assessed for Autism and ADHD as an Adult
At mid life, I sat across from a psychologist agreeing to a full autism and ADHD assessment. A reflection on self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and taking that first step.
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When You Feel Like You’re Drifting: The Quiet Sadness of Parenthood
There is a sadness that lingers in the pauses of parenting. On feeling lost, unseen, and learning to make room for yourself.
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When Doing Our Best Doesn’t Feel Like Enough: Lessons from Palliative Care and Parenting
As an OT in palliative care, I met a wife whose husband had brain cancer. She changed how I see parenting. On doing your best even when it doesn’t feel enough.
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Both Things Are True: Loving Motherhood and Mourning the Life You Gave Up For It
I chose my children over my career, knowing what I was giving up. I don’t regret it. I still grieve it. And I’ve finally stopped pretending those two things can’t both be true.
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The Moment It Clicked: Understanding My Gifted Child’s Meltdowns and Changing How I Parent
He could teach himself coding but melted down over a journal entry. The moment I understood my gifted child’s neurodivergence and changed everything.