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You just got your ADHD diagnosis! Now what?
You’ve got your ADHD diagnosis. Welcome to the club! 🙂 However you’re feeling about it right now, that’s a valid place to be. Relief, grief, numbness, a strange kind of nothing can cycle through in your head in the space of an afternoon.
What do the ADHD self-assessment questions really mean?
The ASRS uses neurotypical language for neurodivergent experiences. This guide translates all 18 questions into what they actually mean, with real-life examples and the coping strategies that can mask your answers.
Adult ADHD Post-Referral Toolkit
ADHD post-referral support — because there are already things you can do before you get assessed for a diagnosis.
Make Your Life Neurodivergent-friendly with the Adaptation Explorer Workbook
Neurodivergent brains don’t come with universal solutions—what helps one person might not work for you at all. So if you’ve tried all the ADHD tips online, but nothing seems to stick, you’re not alone. 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 regulate.
I Wasn’t ‘Just A Bit Stressed Out’
Exploring the impact of internalised ableism made me re-evaluate my misinterpreted autistic and ADHD traits.
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.
Questions & Answers
“Will people judge me if they learn about my ADHD / Autism?”
People can still be mean, and your worries are valid. But research shows they’re already picking up on more than you think — and that disclosure often improves how they respond, not worsens it.
“Do I have to tell people about my diagnosis?”
Your diagnosis is yours. You decide who hears about it and when. This post covers what you’re actually required to share about ADHD or Autism — at work, with the DVLA, with doctors — and what stays entirely with you.
“I didn’t get my ADHD diagnosis. Now what?”
Your ADHD assessment didn’t lead to a diagnosis, but the experiences that led you to seek one are still real. This page is for you if you’ve just received your assessment result and want to know what comes next. Self-understanding, self-compassion, and practical strategies are not conditional on a diagnosis.
“Can supplements help with ADHD?”
Yes, and no. Whether supplements can help with your ADHD depends on where the support need is for you when it comes to your dopamine system.
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Latest Glossary entries
stimulant medication
Stimulant medications are the most commonly prescribed pharmacological treatment for ADHD. They work by increasing the availability of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain, and have long-acting or short-acting variations. Stimulant medication has been in clinical use for over 80 years, they are safe and effective. Long-term users report mild or managable side-effects only.
The neurodivergent brain
The brain is the organ behind every neurodivergent trait you experience — from how you pay attention to how you process emotion to how you sleep. Neurodivergent brains use the same basic structures and chemical messengers as any brain, but the tuning is different: different dopamine activity in reward circuits, different balance between excitatory and inhibitory signalling, different default mode network behaviour.
autistic direct communication
Direct communication is a pared-down, efficient way of speaking, where the words mean what they mean — no subtext to decode, no softening layer to read past. For many autistic people, this is the default register. It often gets misread as bluntness or aggression, but the directness is usually doing precision work.
literal thinking
Literal thinking is a precision-oriented processing style common in autistic people, where words, questions, and instructions are interpreted according to their exact meaning rather than their implied or intended meaning. It is one of the most commonly misunderstood autistic traits — both by neurotypical people who assume it means autistic people cannot grasp metaphors or jokes, and by autistic people themselves who dismiss it because they understand figurative language perfectly well. Many autistic adults comprehend metaphors, sarcasm, and idioms with ease, but still respond very precisely to the literal content of questions, miss the unstated social layer attached to a comment, or get stuck on vague terms like “often” that don’t contain enough information for an accurate answer. Literal thinking shows up most clearly when communication leaves gaps that the listener is expected to fill in — and it becomes far less of a factor when the information provided is clear, specific, and explicit.
pattern recognition in autism
Pattern recognition is a thinking style common in autistic people, involving a tendency to notice underlying structures, connections, and regularities across many areas of life — sensory, social, systemic, and practical. Research supports enhanced visual and perceptual pattern detection in autism, and many autistic adults describe this extending into how they solve problems, read people, predict outcomes, and make sense of the world. Pattern recognition varies enormously between individuals in which domains it shows up, and works best when the data is consistent and rule-governed — making it a genuine strength in many contexts, while less effective in the noisy, context-dependent domain of real-time social interaction.
