Welcome to the Brain Library — a cosy little corner where all my favourite thoughts end up.
You’ll find ADHD insights, tiny tools, creative musings, short stories, and whatever else my busy brain refuses to keep to itself. Dip in, wander, enjoy, and take whatever helps or delights you.
Gratitude as a weapon of mass construction
We are often told that we should practise gratitude. Keep a gratitude journal. Write down three good things before bed. Notice what went well. Count your blessings. And I think there is something about that advice that can feel truly futile, tiny, almost laughably inadequate in the face of everything else. The world is full…
Imposter Syndrome is trying to tell you something
Just not what you think it is. O the irony. Imposter syndrome is incredibly common in neurodivergent people. It comes up around diagnosis all the time, that feeling that perhaps we somehow fooled the assessor, researched too much, knew what to say, played autistic or ADHD a little too convincingly. But it turns up everywhere…
The great ADHD myth: a response
I watched Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? and I have things to day beyond hello, clickbait central. We know there are a lot of attacks at the moment on the neurodivergent community, and using that title in itself was pure clickbait, and unfortunately it is going to work. As a documentary, the main thing…
When your teen lies to you
When someone lies to us and we realise they’ve been lying, it hurts. It feels like trust has been damaged. I think that’s a completely understandable reaction to have. It feels even deeper when it’s someone close to us, and there’s probably no relationship where that’s felt more deeply than with our own child. As…
Pedestalling: the higher we fall
‘Pedestalling’ is the act of placing someone or something on a pedestal. Figuratively, it means to idealise, glorify, or treat a person as unrealistically flawless. In dating or personal relationships, it refers to putting a partner on such a high standard that their human flaws are ignored. So yeah, not actual pedestals, although I do…
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