HeyJaredNeurodivergent Insights
Musings, reflections, and articles on neurodivergence, community, and the complexity of being human written by Dr. Megan Anna Neff.
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Visual Guide: Neurodivergent Identity Development (opens the original)
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I think a lot about identity, shame, and the stories we tell ourselves. I still struggle with my mental health in various ways, but one of the greatest gifts of late-in-life AuDHD discovery has been the chance to revisit many of the shame-filled narratives I’ve carried throughout my life.Last year, I wanted a more systematic way of exploring this, so I wrote an article series on Erikson’s developmental stages. He called them “crises,” but I prefer to think of them as “tasks.” And to be fair, Eri
Test the landing first (opens the original)
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From 2020 to 2025 I barely left my house. Over the last year and a half I’ve slowly started stretching: a neurodivergent retreat, writing retreats in sunny places, and, at the end of this summer I braved an impromptu trip to spend a few days with a group of neurodivergent friends and colleagues.Then I got the text you don’t want to get when you’re far from home: a photo of an x-ray. My daughter had broken her ankle in five places on a nostalgic trip back to her old playgrounds. We’ve had our sha
Visual Guide: Dissociation Supports Explained (opens the original)
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Earlier this month I wrote an article about the spectrum of dissociation, ADHD and autism. And shared a short visual guide version here. This week’s visual guide follows up with some ideas on how to support ourselves during these experiences. I spent much of my life drifting in and out of what felt like a dream-like state. After discovering I was AuDHD I began understanding these experiences better and learning what they meant and how
Autism, ADHD & Dissociation (Digital Download) (opens the original)
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As a kid I used to tug on my mom’s hand in the grocery store and ask if we were in a dream. It took me decades to learn there was a name for this experience, and longer to work out why it was happening.This guide covers what dissociation is, the different forms it tends to take, and the pathways into it that rarely get talked about for Autistic and ADHD people: sensory overload, and attention that is drawn to absorptional ways of being. You can also read the full article, with all the citations
Dissociation in Autistic, ADHD & AuDHD Adults (opens the original)
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Autism, ADHD, and Dissociation: Why We Fog OutAs a child, an odd experience would often sweep over me: the sudden sense that I was in a dream. I’d tug on my mom’s hand and ask her whether we were. Sometimes I’d pinch my own arm to check.It happened most often in busy places, grocery stores, crowded rooms, anywhere the lights were bright and a hundred things making noise at once. The only language I had was: I feel like I’m in a dream, which is about as close as a small kid can get to describing
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