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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
vagus nerve
The vagus nerve is a bundle of nerve fibres in your body. It runs from the brainstem down through the neck and into the chest and abdomen. It branches out to the heart, lungs, airways, stomach, liver, intestines, and most of the digestive tract. It is the longest cranial nerve in the body.
Roughly 80% of what it carries is sensory information travelling upward. The vagus nerve reports to your brain about what is happening in your organs.
In recent years, the vagus nerve has become a fixture of wellness content. Many techniques, including cold showers, humming, and gargling, are promoted as ways to “stimulate” or “tone” it. Some of this is supported by research, but many of the easy-fix claims are exaggerated. And for neurodivergent people in particular, some of the advice is actively unhelpful.
gut-brain axis
The gut-brain axis is the two-way communication system between your digestive tract and your brain. It runs on nerves, neurotransmitters, immune signals, and microbial chemistry, and it’s a large part of the reason why so many neurodivergent people have persistent stomach problems which are often not even connected to their neurodivergence.
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.
