It's difficult being neurodivergent and understanding a world you do not belong to. It's worse when you thought that you weren't neurodivergent, were raised with high expectations, and then smashed yourself through exhaustion, only to find out the opposite was true. This week's #BehndTheScenes reminds everyone that your life can turn out much differently than you imagined...and it might have been the better route, despite the bumps. When I was growing up, high expectations we

"You don't look disabled." "No! You don't look autistic!" Those are things that I hear often. They are right. I am thirty-six years old and have managed life pretty ok. Although it took a while, I have a Bachelors in Educational Studies. I am self-employed as an author. I have a son and a husband and two fur babies. I own my home and can pay my bills, take phone calls and answer the door. Take walks and act civilized in public mostly. Smile and greet people. Run and play with

I had an active imagination when I was younger...and this #BehindTheScenes is going to prove it. Maybe. But it was where I began writing...

Life brings me a LOT of unexpected turns. Growing up, my parents hung out with various people, and they brought their friends to other...

I grew up as a neurotypical child, eager to see the world and experience it like my parents had. Now, I am some weird ass author who is...

Yeah, I knew that I had to explore this somehow. Neurodivergence is a growing field, and there is so much to the diagnoses that I've...

Just when I thought life could not get any weirder...it does. I was diagnosed as Neurodivergent. Wait...how did that happen?! I've...