Neuro Narratives
Neuro Narratives is a way for me to combine all of the essential parts of me in the hope of making sense out of my experiences: autism, ADHD and creative writing.
In the short few years post ADHD and autism diagnosis, I have worked to tease out the experiences of my childhood and present navigation of adulthood. Neuro Narratives gives me snippets of space to work this through - and hopefully add insights that others might find useful.
Introducing Neuro Narratives
I ask myself, is there anything left to be said on neurodiversity? Then, almost as quickly, I wonder when I started to feel like this. When did my feelings toward that word, that once gloriously inclusive label – ‘neurodivergent’ – begin to change? If I’m being honest, I think my feelings started to change when it stopped being a word I associated with me and started feeling like an us. I started grappling with the concept of being neurodivergent when I enveloped myself with the community. That’s an uncomfortable admission to make. Shouldn’t being part of a community feel good, help one feel seen? It does, for me. But it has also simultaneously added noise to my already very noisy head. It has added voices that I feel I must find myself within to feel a part of something.
