The Reframe Diaries
Marie-Christine Oliver, Jen Benford, Bridget: Neurodivergent Nurse, Steve [Sage-Outlaw-Caregiver], PJM, Kat OConnorFor late-identified autistic and AuDHD adults: making sense of overcapacity, collapse, and the slow rebuild — your life as a coherent journey, not a series of personal failures. Language and orientation for the life you're living.
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"I AM NOT, NEVER WAS AND NEVER WILL BE PERFECT. BUT I AM GOOD ENOUGH."
Alex is in the Rebuild. Her days have a shape now that they did not have before. A swim and two or three hours at her desk, or a row on the water and then coffee with a friend — and that is the day. She does not have the energy for m...
The Only Thing I Could Change Was Me
⚠️ A care note before anything else. This conversation moves through self-loathing, panic attacks, being treated as defective on returning to work, the loss of a career and identity, and how close re-entry can bring you back to the edge. If...
Ten Permission Slips: A Little Book of Things You Were Always Allowed
When you reach adulthood without knowing you’re autistic or AuDHD, you pick up a thousand quiet rules, how to act, how much room to take, when to override what your body is trying to tell you. Most of them were intelligent once.
They help...
"EVERYONE JUST WANTS ME TO SAY I'M BETTER, THANKS."
Kat is fifty-nine. She came to herself through a screen: ADHD reels that landed, then autism, then a word she had never heard, AuDHD. It fit.
She went looking for testing at fifty-eight, found that almost no one near her would asse...
The No You Can't Push Through
⚠️ A note before you begin.
This essay describes the long aftermath of overcapacity collapse, including shame and a body that begins refusing things it once managed without thinking. Please read with care.
I am not a clinician. I am a lat...
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For late-identified autistic and AuDHD adults: making sense of overcapacity, collapse, and the slow rebuild — your life as a coherent journey, not a series of personal failures. Language and orientation for the life you're living.
Transformation coach for creators, feelers, and rebuilders. Where neurodiversity and the nervous system meet brand, business, and AI. D1 athlete, BTA Founder. Lived experience, not medical advice. You were built for range, not a box. \ud83d\udc26\ud83d\udd25
Late diagnosed AuDHD RN/MPH (she/her), writing about my special interests in neurodiversity, psychology, health equity and parenting, while trying to build an aligned life.
Writes about dogs, life with AI, and the weird stuff in between. Ex-USAID laid off by Elon. Outside Feet is for pet parents seeking to improve their dog's quality of life. Artificial Idiocracy is for those who feel out of place in the age of AI.
Husband, father, veteran, expat. One of those punk rockers who found religion, only I'm not a dork. I talk about AuDHD, gardening, and dope music.
Kat. Kind & Creative lover of music & arts. AuDHD at 59. Gifted at making people feel seen. Cicadas singing and warm sun fill me with Joy! Bold and unique on the outside, still figuring out the inside.
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