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For decades, the dominant models of mental health have been shaped by a framework that attempts to define and diagnose suffering through static categories. Based on a legacy of statistical norms and positivist assumptions, these models have often promised clarity through diagnosis, yet failed to capture the rich complexity of individual human experience. As we face rising mental health challenges globally, a quiet but profound shift is underway—one that seeks to replace linea

For most of my life, I understood ADHD primarily through the lens of my profession. As psychologists, we learn how to assess it, diagnose it, and treat it. We study its cognitive mechanisms, its behavioural expressions, and its developmental patterns. We learn the criteria, the tests, and the models that help us identify it in others. What I did not fully anticipate was the experience of  recognising aspects of ADHD within myself later in life . This has been a profoundly cla

In recent years, the neurodiversity community has popularised a number of informal terms that help people describe the overlapping ways in which minds can differ. One of the most widely recognized is AuDHD , a community term referring to individuals who present with both Autism and ADHD . While it is not a formal diagnostic category, it reflects a lived experience that many people recognise: that our cognitive profiles rarely fit neatly into a single box. In a similar spirit,

Demand avoidance, often described in extreme cases as  Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) , refers to a persistent resistance to demands...

The concept of  neurodiversity  represents a paradigm shift in how we understand mental health, cognition, and individual differences....

Traits are commonly understood as stable, defining characteristics of an individual, often seen as heritable or genetically determined....

The term neurodiversity has gained increasing attention in recent years as society seeks to better understand and embrace the richness...