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How to Deal with Sensory Overload as a Sensitive Person

By Jenara Nerenberg — 2020

Sometimes it feels like the world wasn’t designed for sensitive people. Here are ways to take care of yourself.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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Coming Out Autistic

Transgender or gender-fluid people are more likely to be neurodivergent, and vice versa. Here’s what that’s like.

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Brandy Schillace
2021
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A Note on ADHD and Self-Acceptance

When you let yourself settle into the totality of who you are, when you stop trying to find a replacement for yourself, when you push back against the familiar tangles of shame, you will find that managing your challenges becomes much more simple.

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Michelle Frank
2019
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“I Don’t Need to Be Fixed!” Epiphanies of Self-Acceptance from Adults with ADHD

The path to self-acceptance is long and treacherous for adults with ADHD, many of whom mistake their symptoms for personal faults. Here, ADDitude readers share the moments they realized that they weren’t broken at all—and that their wild, wonderful ADHD brains didn’t need fixing.

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ADDitude Editors
2022
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Women with Autism: “Too Much and Not Enough”

Moving from camouflaging to self-acceptance.

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Claire Jack
2021
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She Got ADHD: A Black Millennial’s Journey to Self-Acceptance

“My work never adequately represented my effort or my intelligence. No one saw how often I stayed up late to finish projects or how many used sticky notes were pasted all over my room and planner to remind myself of tasks.”

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Eartha Terrell
2017
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