Masking Isn’t a Superpower: What Camouflaging Really Costs Autistic Kids (and Teens)
Autism masking in children and teens can hide anxiety, depression, and burnout. Learn what camouflaging costs—and how to better support autistic youth.
Autistic Adults at Work: Job Satisfaction Depends on Workplace Climate, Not “Fixing” People
Autism and employment: job satisfaction depends on workplace climate, not fixing people. Learn how to build a neurodiversity-affirming workplace.
Meet the clinican: Addie Ehlenberger (She/her)
Explore neurodivergent-affirming therapy with an ASL-fluent clinician, Addie Ehlenberger. Start therapy or include her in your autism evaluation team today.
Seeing the Full Spectrum, Not Just the Prototype — Read Our Take on the Latest Autism Conversation.
Autism isn’t “too broad”—we’re finally seeing it clearly. Our take on the latest debate explores masking, late diagnosis, and why moving beyond the prototype matters.
Coping with Internalized Ableism: How Neurodivergent Adults Can Set Realistic Expectations
Struggling with internalized ableism as a neurodivergent adult? Learn how to recognize the sneaky “shoulds,” set realistic expectations, manage burnout, and reclaim your energy. Our neuroaffirming therapy and evaluation services help autistic, ADHD, and otherwise differently wired adults identify internalized ableism, build personalized coping strategies, and create realistic expectations that actually work.
📩 Ready to stop letting impossible expectations run your brain? Reach out today to explore therapy or start an evaluation with our neuroaffirming team.
When You Can Feel the Pattern: Intersectional Neurodivergent Strategies for Safety and Support
For neurodivergent, BIPOC and TGD/2SLGBTQIA+ individuals navigating political and global stress, learn strategies for building internal safety, setting boundaries, and finding supportive, neuroaffirming community.
negotiations with a nervous system: Life as a PDA Therapist
Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) isn’t just about behavior — it’s about how the nervous system responds to perceived demands. In “Negotiations with a Nervous System,” a PDA‑affirming therapist reflects on what it’s like to live with a nervous system that equates obligation with danger. They explore how nervous system threat responses shape everyday life, influence avoidance, and offer insights into a more compassionate, autonomy‑centered approach to therapy. This perspective reframes PDA as extreme sensitivity to autonomy loss rather than avoidance of effort, making it a powerful lens for neurodivergent‑affirming care.
Adulting with PDA: Neuroaffirming Strategies to Thrive in Your 20s, 30s, and 40s
Rest, Rage, and Reimagination: Neurodivergent Womxn Creating the Future
ADHD & Autistic College Students: Find Your People and Finally Exhale
When Lived Experience Is Clinical Expertise - Why autistic therapists aren’t good at their jobs “despite autism”, but because of it
Love Beyond Romance: A Valentine's Reality Check for AUDHD Adults
Black History Month: Mental Health, Resistance, and the Work Still Ahead
Standing Up for Yourself as an AUDHD Person When You’re Expected to Fall in Line and Mask
Mutual Aid as a Shield Against Ableism in Our Communities
People-Pleasing Isn’t a Personality Trait: How Trauma and Neurodivergence Reinforce It
The Value of Community and Mutual Aid for AuDHDers: Why Connection Matters for Autistic ADHD Brains
When Violence Lives in Our Bodies: How Political Violence Becomes Somatic and Hits People of Color Especially Hard
Political violence isn’t only something you see on the news or protest signs. It lives in our bodies. It shows up in constricted breathing, shattered sleep, chronic pain, hyper-vigilance, and nervous systems that never get to switch off. For many white Americans, state violence looks like a headline. For people of color, especially Black, Indigenous, and immigrant communities, it is daily lived experience—a trauma that embeds itself in muscle memory, nervous system regulation, and collective history.
New Year's Resolutions Are Bullsh*t: A Neurodivergent Survival Guide
It’s January , which means your Instagram feed is about to become a hellscape of sunrise alarm clocks, meal prep containers, and people who are definitely going to run a marathon this year (they won't).
