
From Care to Creativity: My Story
When I was younger, I already knew I was different – I didn’t yet have the language to explain it. That understanding didn’t come officially until much later.

When I was younger, I already knew I was different – I didn’t yet have the language to explain it. That understanding didn’t come officially until much later.

I didn’t “become” neurodivergent at 36. I just finally had the language to understand myself. The diagnosis was relief first, then grief for the younger me who thought they were failing at life, when really they were navigating the world with an unsupported disability.

I am a 23-year-old autistic and ADHD journalist from Leicester, shaped by growing up in a neurodivergent family – four siblings, four corners of a square. My lived experience drives my work to amplify voices and create change.

Neurodiversity describes the natural differences in how our brains work, a concept introduced by Judy Singer to encourage inclusion and acceptance of different ways of thinking.

There was a moment when we looked at one another and said, almost at the same time, ‘We could do more.’ That was the moment The Neurodivergence Project began to take shape.

There were days I wondered if I’d ever live life like other people. But looking back, I can see that those challenges gave me something important…
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