The Journal
Personal writing, deep-dives, and gentle research. Filed loosely, because rigid filing has never really been our thing.
11 articles in The Dark Side
When executive dysfunction had me paralysed in a funk, it took my dad, a waterfall, 30,000 steps and a Colwyn Bay sunset to pull me back. On burnout, hyperfocus and the sea.
How, at the age of 37, I've only just gotten into Fair on my credit score. My experience with financial overwhelm and impulsivity and how my diagnosis helped me reclaim some power.
My take on why pinning attention deficit on smartphones and social media completely ignores centuries of human history.
Living at the crossroads of undiagnosed ADHD and weight loss surgery that could have been avoided.
A response to Channel 4's documentary 'The Great ADHD Myth?', which set out to investigate private clinics and NHS waiting lists, but instead ended up weaponising misinformation, invalidating neurodivergent lived experiences, and giving fuel to dismissive skeptics.
This is a shout-out to my ex 🎤🎵 And now that's stuck in my head. This post is about the ex who told me I'd be a terrible mother because of my "motivation problem." And my experience of what living with undiagnosed ADHD actually felt like.
A bad date, a Channel 4 documentary, and a GP who sighed at me. What it is really like living with late-diagnosed ADHD while everyone else treats it as a trend.
I think I've done one of those things you occasionally hear people talk about: something that actually affects real change.
A personal article on Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, chronic people-pleasing, and the night it taught me how far my brain would go to keep someone else comfortable.
How I learned to name the thing that had been running the show for thirty-something years.
How I finally stopped calling it laziness and started recognising autistic-ADHD burnout.
