A Curious Route

Tag: neurodiversity

  • Sensing Out Life: Making Sense of Our Senses and Practical Adjustments

    As human beings our sensory experiences, capacities and abilities help us to navigate and enjoy the world. They illuminate our experience of it as immersive and kaleidoscopic, and they can be vastly different from one another (think of colour blindness). In some modalities, they pale in comparison to the abilities of the creatures we share…

  • Some Thoughts on Layers and the Limits of Labels

    The longer I’ve worked in mental health, the less convinced I’ve become that people’s experiences fit neatly into single stories. I’ve found myself mentally revisiting people I’ve worked with in the past, regarding whether their neurodivergence was lost beneath latter ‘layers’ as mine was. The hallmarks obscured by lifetimes of resilience and resourceful overcompensation, plastered over…