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Neurospicy, Defined by a Neurodivergent
If you’ve been around the disability community or even general TikTok in the past few years, you’ve probably come across the term “neurospicy” at some point. So let’s just cut to the chase: What does it mean? And who is it for? Neurospicy Meaning Neurospicy is a new term developed by the disability community to…
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How to make room for rest (with no time)
If there’s one problem I hear come up again and again in my small neurodivergent community, it’s one thing: I need rest, but I have no time for it. There’s plenty of reasons behind this—which we’ll get into soon—but the most obvious reason neurodivergent people aren’t getting the rest they need is because the world…
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What Is “Enough” (from a Neurodivergent POV)?
I hate New Year’s resolutions. I know, I know, I’m not the first to say this (and I certainly won’t be the last). But here’s why I hate them as a neurodivergent person: Everybody expects your goals to be some big, huge achievement. Most New Year’s resolutions are centered in huge, external achievements, and don’t…
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Is Autism Neurodivergent?
Whenever people talk about autism, it seems to be a conversation trapped in a bubble (in other words, a conversation contained only in itself, without much external context or input). There’s “autism moms” and “autism therapy” and “autistic support” and so many other autistic-centric conversations happening… Without much concern for anything else. Conversely, these days,…
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How To Conquer Negative Self-Beliefs
Negative self-beliefs, also known as core beliefs, are within all of us. And as neurodivergent people, this problem is even more prevalent for us. As children—diagnosed or not—the story we got from society was the same: Stop being like that. After hearing that in a variety of ways from a variety of sources, that weighs…
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What Does Neurodivergent Include?
Today’s question is simple to ask, but complex to answer: What does neurodivergent include? It seems like ever since TikTok hit the scene, the word “neurodivergent” has found its way into the main frame. This is largely due to the recognizable increase in diagnosis of ADHD and autism, but that’s not all there is to…
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My Neurodivergent-Centered Boundaries
When someone says “you’ve gotta set boundaries,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Is it that you’ve got to tell someone off? Stop talking to someone for a certain amount of time? Break up with a friend or partner? I used to think about boundaries this way, and it’s that very thinking that…