<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Seren]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seren Neurodiversity]]></description><link>https://www.seren-neurodiversity.co.uk/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:24:03 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.seren-neurodiversity.co.uk/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[What is masking - and what does it cost you?]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. If you have, I...]]></description><link>https://www.seren-neurodiversity.co.uk/post/what-is-masking-and-what-does-it-cost-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a27e4bcbcf454bfefdd991d</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:09:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/067997_ccd8e8cc2a9f4e05b12caf763480f470~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Emma Kearns</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Late ADHD diagnosis: what actually happens after, and why nobody talks about it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 waiting lists, the...]]></description><link>https://www.seren-neurodiversity.co.uk/post/late-adhd-diagnosis-what-actually-happens-after-and-why-nobody-talks-about-it</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1da87f2b39267783c9679c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:01:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/067997_a86de5a5919c41b198e47bce1f94367d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Emma Kearns</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why women with ADHD are diagnosed so late - and what it really costs them]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 all of women I...]]></description><link>https://www.seren-neurodiversity.co.uk/post/why-women-with-adhd-are-diagnosed-so-late-and-what-it-really-costs-them</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0c62e8e8a70f906340f60c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 13:31:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/067997_fb19099af40f4bd5bedb316f01d4f8a3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Emma Kearns</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twenty Years as a Neurodiversity Specialist]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 employment funding, and...]]></description><link>https://www.seren-neurodiversity.co.uk/post/blog-neurodiversity-specialist-what-i-wish-id-said</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0c2894614a7ecb2ec8e1de</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:17:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/067997_1d2bf0a5882f4b63bb6cb4f382f0c283~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_896,h_946,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Emma Kearns</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Functioning? Barely. Devoted? Completely.]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. The dentist...]]></description><link>https://www.seren-neurodiversity.co.uk/post/functioning-barely-devoted-completely</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a009f0d0cf45a42cca8303d</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 15:11:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/067997_6abaa9ee04344cb3a7564105f56785d1~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Emma Kearns</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Wasn't Behind. I Just Needed a Different Map.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I got the right answer. They still marked me as having failed. By Emma Kearns, Founder of Seren Neurodiversity Specialists I was nine years old. There was a maths test. I worked out the right answer - I checked, it was correct - but I had used my own method to get there, not the one the teacher had taught. I had failed. The answer was right. The thinking was sound. But the process wasn't the 'proper' one. That moment has stayed with me for over thirty years. Not because it was the most...]]></description><link>https://www.seren-neurodiversity.co.uk/post/i-wasn-t-behind-i-just-needed-a-different-map</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fdb323ecab901137504cf4</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 12:09:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/067997_32f7dbb31f1048fbb830f578b5a0df62~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Emma Kearns</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>