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Your Neurodivergent Guide To Going Back To College

We’ve rounded up some of our favorite tips, tricks, and hacks for making the transition back to college a bit easier….

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6 Tips For Designing a Stimulating Neurodivergent Workspace

Here’s how I set up my work-from-home desk so it works with me, not against me….

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How To Stim At Work: Keeping Focus Through The Long Days

How we’re stacking our stims to get through the days that drag…

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How to Re-Enter The World After Going Ghost Mode

If you are neurodivergent like us, ghosting isn’t a rare occurrence, but something we do on the regular….

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Your Neurodivergent Guide To Going Back To College

6 Tips For Designing a Stimulating Neurodivergent Workspace

How To Stim At Work: Keeping Focus Through The Long Days

How to Re-Enter The World After Going Ghost Mode

I’m Not Ignoring Your Text

Neurodivergent Relationships

Family, dating, friendship, and more

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What My Stutter Taught Me About My Son’s Voice

When shame about my own stutter leaves the conversation, all that remains is my son, me, and the words between us….

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I Don’t Need Acceptance, Understanding Myself Is Enough

I don’t need others to understand my neurodivergence. I get me, and that’s enough….

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Unpacking My Neurodivergent Family Tree

For members of the “pivot generation,” uncovering their own neurodivergence is only part of the puzzle….

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Loving While Neurodivergent: Finding Our People

Like anything, finding true connection while neurodivergent offers its unique set of challenges….

Insights for Daily Living

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Your Neurodivergent Guide To Going Back To College

We’ve rounded up some of our favorite tips, tricks, and hacks for making the transition back to college a bit easier….

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How to Re-Enter The World After Going Ghost Mode

If you are neurodivergent like us, ghosting isn’t a rare occurrence, but something we do on the regular….

Organization that works

Making spaces where neurodivergence thrives

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6 Tips For Designing a Stimulating Neurodivergent Workspace

Here’s how I set up my work-from-home desk so it works with me, not against me….

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This Planner Actually Works With My Neurodivergent Brain

The Hobonichi planner offers all the flexibility, novelty, and originality we need….

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I’m Not Messy. I’m Creating a System That Only I Understand.

My pride tries to see my current mess as creative chaos. I tell myself that clutter is communication, not failure, as this ADDitude piece puts it. But as I look at the laundry piles, I wonder if this is how I truly feel. The perfectionist in me misses my glamorous decor and structure, while my obsessive personality tells me I’m ashamed of my fail…

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Neurodivergent Organization Strategies That Actually Work

Productivity apps, fidget toys, countdown timers, and of course, ADHD planners: it seems everyone has the perfect tool to help neurodivergents get organized, amp up their productivity, and tick off that to-do list. But our brains all work differently — so it makes sense that we’d all need to develop our own systems of organization. Here are som…

Unmasking Mindsets

Fresh takes on thinking, learning, and problem-solving

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How Neurodiversity Shapes My Anthropological And Artistic Work

By centering diverse ways of thinking, sensing, and being, neurodiversity becomes the path that brings me closer to the beating heart of my passion….

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I Didn’t Need a New Life. I Needed a Quieter One.

How traits-based lifestyle design helped me realize I just needed a $7 pair of earplugs to function….

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Tracing Neurodivergence Through My Japanese Family

“I come from a matrilineage of hummingbird-like souls. Our wings buzzing about as we hover over each passing moment, energies shimmering with effervescence.”…

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6 Tips For Designing a Stimulating Neurodivergent Workspace

Here’s how I set up my work-from-home desk so it works with me, not against me….

This Planner Actually Works With My Neurodivergent Brain image

This Planner Actually Works With My Neurodivergent Brain

The Hobonichi planner offers all the flexibility, novelty, and originality we need….

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I’m Not Messy. I’m Creating a System That Only I Understand.

My pride tries to see my current mess as creative chaos. I tell myself that clutter is communication, not failure, as this ADDitude piece puts it. But as I look at the laundry piles, I wonder if this is how I truly feel. The perfectionist in me misses my glamorous decor and structure, while my obsessive personality tells me I’m ashamed of my fail…

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Neurodivergent Organization Strategies That Actually Work

Productivity apps, fidget toys, countdown timers, and of course, ADHD planners: it seems everyone has the perfect tool to help neurodivergents get organized, amp up their productivity, and tick off that to-do list. But our brains all work differently — so it makes sense that we’d all need to develop our own systems of organization. Here are som…

Stimulate Your Senses

Exploring sights, sounds, textures, tastes, and scents

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How To Stim At Work: Keeping Focus Through The Long Days

How we’re stacking our stims to get through the days that drag…

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Go Smell Stimming With Me

How to explore, enjoy, and feel the world through smell……

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Tagony: The Pettiest Sensory Battle I Never Won

How tactile sensitivity with tags is a neurodivergent’s worst nightmare….

Stories from the Community

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Neurodivergent Gift Guide To The Finest Fidget Finds

What comes to mind when you think of fidgets? Fine jewelry and massage rollers? No? Well, allow us to expand your view of fidgets and show you just how beautiful, high-quality, and minimal they can be….
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Gift Guide: Whimsical Finds For Neurodivergent Minds

Here are our whimsical picks for filling your life with visual stims….
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Neurodivergent Gift Guide To Everything Comfy Cozy

Days spent in bed to recharge don’t have to be grungy….
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The Neurodivergent Gift Guide To Actually Fun Organization

These are our favorite dopamine-inducing finds for staying organized all year long. …
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Neurodivergent Gift Guide: Stocking Stuffers Under $25

These gifts under $25 ensure their stockings will be hung with (self) care….
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Neurodivergent Gift Guide: Best Gifts Under $50

These are the best stocking stuffers under $50, handpicked by our editors….
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Neurodivergent Gift Guide: Best Gifts Under $100

These are the best stocking stuffers under $100, handpicked by our editors….
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Neurodivergent Holiday Gift Guide 2025

The holidays are almost here, and we’re thinking about all the gifts that we want to give and receive this season….
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Your Neurodivergent Guide To Going Back To College

We’ve rounded up some of our favorite tips, tricks, and hacks for making the transition back to college a bit easier….
Read Full Article
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6 Tips For Designing a Stimulating Neurodivergent Workspace

Here’s how I set up my work-from-home desk so it works with me, not against me….
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How To Stim At Work: Keeping Focus Through The Long Days

How we’re stacking our stims to get through the days that drag…
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How to Re-Enter The World After Going Ghost Mode

If you are neurodivergent like us, ghosting isn’t a rare occurrence, but something we do on the regular….
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I’m Not Ignoring Your Text

I was just waiting for the right time to respond, and it never arrived….
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Go Smell Stimming With Me

How to explore, enjoy, and feel the world through smell……
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