My white mousie, Daisy, "reading" a tiny book

Love Has the Shape of a Mouse

Wandering thoughts

I found her outside on a walk. She was sitting in the grass on the roadside. Her fur was a perfect, startling white. She was happily nibbling on something she held in her tiny paws. I stared at her in awe and then suddenly realized she couldn’t possibly survive outside. I scooped her up before I could think it through, and just like that, I suddenly had a mouse. I didn’t know at the time that she would become my best friend. I didn’t know she would save my life as I saved hers. I didn’t know how much I would love her.

How to calm sensory overload: A photo of a white woman with red hair smelling pink roses on the background of rose bushes.

How to Calm Sensory Overload: Feed and Soothe Your Six Senses

Neurodivergence, Autism

Sensory overstimulation plays a big part in autistic burnout. So, in order to regenerate your nervous system and find your way out of the burnout, you need to pay attention to your sensory input. Your sensory system plays a big role in your well-being, and meeting its needs can help ease the weight of burnout. Here is what you can do to make the world more sensory-friendly (and pleasantly stimulating) to you.

A young woman balancing on a beam.

Science Says Balancing Exercises Can Help Your ADHD Symptoms

Neurodivergence, ADHD

I have read a very interesting chapter in the book ADHD 2.0 that suggests that balancing exercises may improve the symptoms of ADHD. Why? Apparently, both physical balance and executive functioning are controlled by a part of the brain called the cerebellum. The cerebellum is a small part of the brain – it takes only 10% of its volume, but it contains a staggering 75% of all neurons of the brain. It has been long known that together with the vestibular system, it controls your balance.

A woman dressed in red, jumping with joy in the middle of the street. She has a big, cheerful smile. The photo has very ADHD energy.

How Can I Get Energy With ADHD Without Caffeine?

ADHD, Neurodivergence

For most people with ADHD, caffeine doesn’t work as it would for neurotypical people. Instead of a boost of energy, it makes them calm and sleepy. I’m one of those odd ADHDers for whom caffeine works normally. I have asked around and apparntly, it happens. But if you are not one of the fortunate, what to do to get an extra kick when you have stuff to finish? Here are some tips!

When you have time blindness, you lose sense of time and often arrive late. Pictured is an asian woman surrounded wit hands holding an alarm clock

What Is Time Blindness and How to Deal With It

Neurodivergence, ADHD

You are running late. You are always running late and you don’t understand why. You woke up extra early, and yet you are late. Again. The stress and shame is eating at you. You desperately WANT to be on time, try to be on time, just to fail every time. People are angry at you. They think you are lazy and disrespectful. They don’t understand that you are angry at yourself too. That you are trying so hard. Everyone around you is able to show up on time, and you are not. Again and again, you try, you promise yourself you will do better, and you fail.

A person, offering two options to choose from: a green apple in one hand, and a donut (with a bite-sized chunk missing) in the other.

You Have Been Thinking About Willpower Wrong

Mental health, ADHD

It has nothing to do with character. We often imagine that some people have a lot of willpower, while some have less. We judge people on this basis. That is a terrible oversimplification. The same person has varying amounts of willpower throughout their day and throughout their life. There aren’t weak-willed people, there are just weak-willed periods and moments. Everyone has them. And they don’t mean anything bad. It’s absolutely normal not to have 100% energy and motivation to charge into doing things all the time.

A woman sitting by the window with a sad expression, hugging herself. The weather outside is grey and gloomy. The image has a winter depression (or seasonal affective disorder) feel.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) – How to Survive It?

Mental health
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Every year, when autumn approaches, I’m watching every day of the summer that goes by, and I’m afraid. I feel like I’m slowly moving towards a deep, dark hole that I won’t be able to crawl from for half a year. That I will not really be alive during that time. This time every year, I feel like I’m dying a little bit. Then the winter comes, my mood and energy levels fall, and I feel like I’m crawling during the gray, gray days. My motivation and willpower disappear down the drain. I can’t seem to do anything productive. Instead, I just lie down and read or endlessly scroll Facebook. I count the days until the return of spring. Many of you probably know this battle. But while winter blues SUCK, they are ways to make this time of the year at least a little easier.

Older woman reading a book about autism

What I Want My Mum to Know About Autism

Autism, Neurodivergence

Dear mum, 

I know you are confused about my recent autistic diagnosis. It’s difficult to adjust your view of someone you have known all their life – I know because it was difficult to adjust my view of myself. It took me some time and I understand that it will take you some time as well. But now I embrace my autistic identity and I would like you to understand it better.

Woman washing dishes while colorful soap bubbles float around her

5 Simple ADHD Hacks for Getting Chores Done

ADHD, Neurodivergence
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When you have ADHD, it can be insanely hard to get anything done, ever. That goes for keeping your house clean and organized too. It can be hard when you need to adult every day, but your brain just won’t have it. So I found some methods to work with the quirks my brain has. I adapt my daily tasks according to what I know about myself and it shows some results. I hope some of this will help you too.

5 Supplements That Can Help Your ADHD Symptoms… and One That Can Mess With Your Meds

5 Supplements That Can Help Your ADHD Symptoms… and One That Can Mess With Your Meds

Neurodivergence, ADHD

For quite some time, I have been gathering tips about natural supplements to help manage ADHD. I have lurked in ADHD Facebook groups, and from time to time, someone would come up with an ADHD supplement that helped them greatly. I paid attention and added it to my list if other people said it helped them too. I looked for the best supplements for ADHD on Reddit as well. I googled. I put the information together bit by bit. Here is a list of the most often mentioned ADHD supplements for adults and children.