ADHD and Sexuality: Why ADHD and Queer Identity So Often Go Together
You spent years feeling slightly outside the group, without the words for why. If you're holding neurodivergence and a queer identity at the same time and suspect they're connected, you're not imagining it. Here's what the research actually says, why ADHD gets missed, and what helps.
What Some Therapists Get Wrong About Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
Some therapists think neurodiversity-affirming care means rejecting CBT, DBT, ACT, ERP, or behavior change entirely. At Brilla, we disagree. Affirming therapy should not gatekeep evidence-based treatment — it should adapt tools to your brain, your goals, your lived experience, and your consent. Here is the difference between compliance and consent, and how to tell whether a therapist is actually affirming.
Visual Schedules for Kids with ADHD and Autism: The Morning Routine Fix That Doesn't Need Your Voice
Your child's teacher says he's one of the most independent kids in class. At home, you've said "shoes" six times before 7:45. The difference is hanging on the classroom wall. Here's how visual schedules let ADHD and autistic kids run their own morning routine — and let you stop being the schedule.
High-Functioning ADHD: Why "You're Doing Fine" Is a Measurement Error
On Friday you were the most competent person in the meeting. On Saturday you couldn't get off the couch. If you've been calling this "high-functioning ADHD" — or someone else has, as a reason you don't need help — this is about the invoice nobody sees, why the collapse is arithmetic and not weakness, and what actually helps.
ADHD Task Initiation: Why You Can't Start (And What Helps)
There's a task you actually want to do, right in front of you, and you still can't make the beginning happen. That's task initiation — a discrete brain function ADHD taxes hardest — and it's not laziness. Here's why starting is its own operation, why "you did it fine once you started" is evidence for you, and six ways to make the start cheaper.
ADHD and Emotional Regulation: Why Your Feelings Aren't Too Big (They're Just Unbuffered)
You're mid-argument before you noticed it started — the feeling at full volume before any thinking part of you got a vote. If you've been called too sensitive, too intense, too much your whole life, here's the reframe: the size of your feelings was never the problem. The speed was. What ADHD emotional dysregulation actually is, why women get misread, and eight moves that help.