I want to start with a question. Not a diagnostic one, not a clinical one. Just this... Have you ever started something, watched it genuinely begin to work, and then, right at that point, felt yourself pull back? Stopped replying to the messages. Missed the session you had been showing up to for weeks. Picked a fight with the person things were finally going well with. Not because you wanted it to end. You wanted it more than almost anything. But something in you hit a wall e

By Emma Kearns, Founder of Seren Neurodiversity I want to start with a question. Not a diagnostic one, not a clinical one. Just this: Have you ever walked out of a social situation, a meeting, a family gathering, a perfectly ordinary Tuesday, and felt completely hollowed out? Not tired in the way that sleep fixes. Something deeper than that. A flatness. An emptiness you could not quite explain to anyone, because from the outside, nothing particularly difficult had happened. I

After identification, most people go through a period of reinterpretation. It can feel, at first, like trying to find your way through a wood so dense you cannot see the path - you know you are moving, but you cannot yet tell in which direction. Looking back at events, relationships, jobs, and moments through the new frame. Understanding, often for the first time, why things happened the way they did. There is a lot of content online about getting an ADHD diagnosis. The waiti

I recently came across a statistic that stopped me in my tracks. Did you know that women with ADHD get their diagnosis almost 5 years later than men? This was presented at a major European psychiatry congress in 2025. I can't say I was surprised by this. After 20 years working in this field, and as someone who has navigated her own neurodivergent journey, I am this statistic - I still don't have the formal diagnosis. I’ve also heard the same story again and again from nearly

What I wish I had said sooner A neurodiversity specialist reflects on two decades supporting neurodivergent people at work and what she discovered about herself along the way. I started working in neurodiversity when I was twenty-three. I did not know that then, of course. I just knew I had found the work that made sense to me. Over the next two decades I would train thousands of HR professionals, lead hiring programmes across Europe, secure over a million pounds in employmen

There is a particular kind of overwhelm that nobody warns you about. It is not the sleepless nights, although those are brutal. It is not the relentlessness of small children, although that is real too. It is the feeling of trying to manage someone else's entire world when you are already fighting to keep on top of your own. The school bag that needs packing every single night. The permission slip that lives in your head rent-free for four days before you forget it completely