The Disappearing Act
When the person who loves you can't understand that your silence isn't rejection. It's survival.
Too normal for weird people. Too weird for normal people.
Practical, honest writing about living with AuDHD — from a late-discovered woman over 40 who spent decades debugging the wrong system.
When the person who loves you can't understand that your silence isn't rejection. It's survival.
I colour-coded a packing list. Left two hours early. Forgot my medication and to lock the front door.
They say autistic people don't want connection. They are wrong about that. They are wrong about a lot of things.
When your need for routine and your need for novelty arm-wrestle and you lose either way.
When perimenopause shreds the coping mechanisms you spent 30 years building.
Actual systems that work for a brain like ours. Not awareness. Not theory.
When you are managing yourself AND another adult AND nobody sees it.
Being a mom with a brain that was never designed for constant sensory input.
From "what is wrong with me" to "nothing was ever wrong with me" — and the rage in between.