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Motor coordination difficulties affect up to 80% of autistic people. Understanding whether dyspraxia is part of your picture can change how you approach everything from driving to daily tasks. You know what you want your body to do. The intention is clear. But somewhere between the thought and the action, something gets lost. Maybe you’ve…
Motor coordination difficulties affect up to 80% of autistic people. Understanding whether dyspraxia is part of your picture can change how you approach everything from driving to daily tasks. You...
She eats the same thing for lunch every day for three months, then suddenly can’t stand it. He forgets meals entirely when he’s working, then eats an entire day’s worth...
In my experience working with autistic adults, maths difficulties are one of those things that rarely gets talked about. People come in for an autism assessment, and somewhere in the...
In my clinical experience, questions about a possible link between autism and narcissism are becoming increasingly common. They usually come from people trying to make sense of challenging or confusing...
If you’ve always found reading harder than it should be, but your autism diagnosis didn’t quite explain everything, you might be dealing with more than one condition. You can read....
Although you might not associate attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as being related to one another, they are both categorised as being neuropsychiatric disorders. Because of this...
You know you need sleep. You want to sleep. But the moment your head hits the pillow, your brain has other plans. For people with ADHD, this isn’t a discipline...
Dating someone with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can be a roller-coaster of emotions, with highs, lows, and unexpected turns. It can be exciting, exhausting, and confusing – often all at the...
Too much. Too little. Sometimes both in the same week. ADHD doesn’t create one kind of sex drive, it creates an unstable one. If your sex drive feels unpredictable, you’re...
The same brain that loses track in meetings doesn’t switch off in the bedroom. Understanding why can be the first step toward something different. You know you want to be...
