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Adam Dobay

Neurodivergent Training Developer

About Adam Dobay

Adam Dobay is a Neurodivergent Training Developer, Co-Founder of Weirdly Successful, and Co-Chair of the Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP) for NHS Sussex’s All-Age Neurodevelopmental Programme, contributing to pathway development, training design, and service improvement across Sussex. With 2,400+ hours developing neurodivergent-focused training materials and 500+ hours of direct client support, he brings both professional rigour and personal understanding of late-identified neurodivergence to his work.

NHS & Clinical Contributions

Adam’s NHS involvement spans multiple strategic groups, including the Pan-Sussex Neurodevelopmental Working Together Group, the CYP NDP Communications Task & Finish Group, and the SPFT Digital Directorate Steering Group. His contributions include co-producing clinician training materials, developing accessible patient communications, and providing lived-experience input on digital health record systems.

He has collaborated directly with NHS clinical leads on assessment pathway improvements, discharge letter accessibility, and neurodivergent-friendly adaptations of standard clinical tools, including the GAD-7 and PHQ-9.

Training & Education

Adam’s training development work draws on 18 years of experience in cross-cultural narrative structures, online education frameworks, and storytelling for personal development. He has delivered 470+ talks on narrative and meaning-making for universities, conferences, and clinical settings, and has worked alongside integrative therapists, anthropologists, and educators to bridge research with practical application.

Approach

Adam’s work is grounded in making complex information accessible without oversimplifying it. He specialises in helping people understand how different neurodivergent traits interact—particularly the overlaps between ADHD, Autism, and sensory processing differences—and translating that understanding into practical, personalised strategies.

Work with Adam

Adam offers 1:1 sessions focused on understanding how your neurodivergent traits interact, navigating the diagnostic process, and building personalised strategies that actually fit how your brain works.

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Latest from Adam

Content type: Article💡Article

How To Make Your Life Neurodivergent-friendly

You've tried all the ADHD tips online, but nothing seems to stick. That's because neurodivergent brains don't come with universal solutions—what helps one person might not work for you at all. Here's how to discover your specific adaptations and create a life that actually works for YOUR brain. Explore your needs, what environments you work best in, what overwhelms you, and what helps you …

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Content type: Explainer❓Explainer

“Does ADHD mean you’re always hyperactive?”

One aspect of ADHD is difficulties in the brain's impulse self-regulation systems, which in childhood can manifest as movement that's deemed excessive, but this is neither required for ADHD nor the whole story of what hyperactivity means.

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Content type: Glossary Entry📖Glossary Entry

justice sensitivity

Justice sensitivity is the heightened awareness of rule violations and inconsistencies, paired with an intense emotional and physiological response. For many neurodivergent people, fairness and consistency function as essential navigational tools when you can't reliably read social cues or predict what will happen next. When rules are applied inconsistently or stated expectations don't match …

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NHS Sussex highlights Adam’s digital comms work

Back in January 2025, as part of his Expert-by-Experience role for NHS Sussex, Adam joined the Neurodevelopmental Programme’s Children and Young People Signposting ND Communications Subgroup to contribute to the development of the Partner Toolkit for ADHD and autism help & support for children & young people, their families and carers. The toolkit, published by …

Read moreNHS Sussex highlights Adam’s digital comms work
Content type: Explainer❓Explainer

I have tried traditional “self-care” activities, and they don’t do anything for me. What am I doing wrong?

Nothing! Neurodivergent brains need more time to process, decompress, and recharge. It probably has to do with how For us neurodivergent folks, the type of rest has to match our needs. A lot of neurotypical forms of rest work against what we need. “Candle-lit bubble bath?” If you’re ADHD, an understimulating environment might force your …

Read moreI have tried traditional “self-care” activities, and they don’t do anything for me. What am I doing wrong?
Content type: Glossary Entry📖Glossary Entry

Sensory processing difficulties

Sensory processing difficulties are a group of traits associated with neurodivergence. They're part of the wider group of sensory processing differences, meaning all the ways neurodivergent brains handle sensory information differently from neurotypical peers. Any of the brain's 8 sensory processing systems can be affected by processing difficulties.

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Content type: Article💡Article

ADHD & Autism on the Rise: Are There More Neurodivergent People Now?

Why it seems there are more neurodivergent people now than before, when in fact we've always been here.

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The Weird Winter Holiday Workbook – a neurodivergent-friendly Christmas-ish planner

There are lots of winter holiday planners out there. Not a lot of them are particularly ADHD, Autism or neurodivergence-friendly, though! So we created this one to reduce holiday stress, hassle and overwhelm so you can: Waiting for you on the pages ahead is a combination of guided self-care and planning pages to help you …

Read moreThe Weird Winter Holiday Workbook – a neurodivergent-friendly Christmas-ish planner
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demand avoidance

Demand avoidance means appearing opposed to doing something when it's perceived as a demand, especially from an authority figure - even if you actually want to do the thing. While it may look like defiance or stubbornness to others, it's actually an involuntary self-preservation response triggered by threats to autonomy. This response happens automatically, not as a conscious decision to be …

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Adam was a guest on Tana Tours

Tana, the software tool for neurodivergent work & life management you didn’t know you need Watch Adam’s Tana Tour with Ev Chapman: Learn more about Tana here

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Content type: Glossary Entry📖Glossary Entry

AuDHD

AuDHD is an unofficial term for co-occurring Autism and ADHD - it is used when someone has both conditions.

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Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)

Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is a potential grouping of sensory processing difficulties. As individual sensory processing difficulties are spread across a wide range of diagnoses, SPD is often used as a shorthand to describe significant neurodivergence-related sensory issues that are persistent in a person's life and limit their participation in everyday life, regardless of what diagnosis …

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