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Parenting
fromScary Mommy
1 month ago

I Spent A Year Talking To ADHD Experts. Here's What I've Learned As A Mom.

ADHD parenting focuses on recognizing patterns and making gradual improvements rather than seeking perfection.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

The Late-Diagnosed Mind: ADHD and Autism in Adults

Undiagnosed ADHD and autism in adults lead to significant psychological costs, including high rates of anxiety and depression.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

A Brain-Based Parenting Shift That Can Help Kids With ADHD

ADHD challenges stem from executive function differences, not motivation or capability; children struggle with attention, memory, and follow-through rather than understanding expectations.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago
Psychology

ADHDers in Love

Neurodivergent adults frequently exhibit insecure attachment that shapes romantic relationships, increasing vulnerability to rejection fears and requiring neuro-affirming predictability and clear communication.
Parenting
fromScary Mommy
1 month ago

I Spent A Year Talking To ADHD Experts. Here's What I've Learned As A Mom.

ADHD parenting focuses on recognizing patterns and making gradual improvements rather than seeking perfection.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

The Late-Diagnosed Mind: ADHD and Autism in Adults

Undiagnosed ADHD and autism in adults lead to significant psychological costs, including high rates of anxiety and depression.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

A Brain-Based Parenting Shift That Can Help Kids With ADHD

ADHD challenges stem from executive function differences, not motivation or capability; children struggle with attention, memory, and follow-through rather than understanding expectations.
#autism
Parenting
fromScary Mommy
5 days ago

Reminder: That 'Bad Kid' You're Judging Could Very Well Be Autistic

Judgmental societal norms create pressure on autistic individuals and their caregivers, leading to feelings of inadequacy and misunderstanding.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

6 Ways Schools Undermine Autistic Students' Self-Advocacy

Autistic students face systemic barriers in self-advocacy at school, requiring structural solutions beyond individual efforts.
Parenting
fromScary Mommy
5 days ago

Reminder: That 'Bad Kid' You're Judging Could Very Well Be Autistic

Judgmental societal norms create pressure on autistic individuals and their caregivers, leading to feelings of inadequacy and misunderstanding.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

6 Ways Schools Undermine Autistic Students' Self-Advocacy

Autistic students face systemic barriers in self-advocacy at school, requiring structural solutions beyond individual efforts.
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Why Your Kids Can't Stop Squishing NeeDoh

NeeDoh has been successful, in part because it provides an outlet for stress relief. But the appeal runs deeper than anxiety management as it taps into the human need for tactile stimulation.
Fashion & style
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days ago

Psychology says people who replay conversations in their head didn't develop that habit by accident - most of them learned early that saying the wrong thing had real consequences, and now their brain replays every exchange searching for mistakes and misfires like a security system that was installed in childhood and has never once been turned off - Silicon Canals

Replaying conversations stems from early experiences where words had significant consequences, leading to a defense mechanism of constant analysis.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

EMDR in a World HyperFocused on Healing

EMDR is an evidence-based trauma therapy that helps reorganize fragmented experiences, leading to significant reductions in trauma symptoms.
#trauma
#neurodiversity
fromIndependent
2 weeks ago
Mental health

Asking for a friend: 'My son has just been diagnosed with autism and ADHD. My husband also got tested and has ADHD. How will all this affect our relationship?'

Education
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Rethinking Social Skills for Neurodivergent Kids

Neurodivergent kids seek connection through shared interests and authenticity, not traditional social norms.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Is Anyone 'Neurotypical'? There Is No Universal Neurotype

Neurodiversity encompasses a wide range of cognitive abilities, and no individual can be strictly classified as 'neurotypical.'
Mental health
fromIndependent
2 weeks ago

Asking for a friend: 'My son has just been diagnosed with autism and ADHD. My husband also got tested and has ADHD. How will all this affect our relationship?'

Navigating the challenges of neurodiversity in a family can be overwhelming, especially with multiple diagnoses affecting communication and relationships.
Social justice
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Extending Awareness to Every Autistic Person

Autism awareness must encompass all autistic individuals, acknowledging their unseen struggles regardless of perceived high-functioning status.
Parenting
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Parenting a Child With Pathological Demand Avoidance

Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) is a behavior pattern where children perceive demands as threats to their autonomy, leading to challenging behaviors.
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

My Child Has Autism: How Do I Know the Program Is Working?

If the application of behavioral techniques does not produce large enough effects for practical value, then the application has failed. Practical value is whatever you define as meaningful for your child's life.
Mental health
Parenting
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

2 Signs Your Sensitive Child Is Stuck in a Thought Spiral

Sensitive kids often overthink situations, leading to emotional overload and difficulty letting go of thoughts.
#misophonia
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Misophonia: "Will You Please Stop Making That Noise?!"

Misophonia affects 10-20% of people, causing intense emotional reactions to ordinary sounds like chewing and breathing, yet lacks official diagnostic classification despite being well-documented.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Accepting That Misophonia Means Doing Things Differently

Misophonia requires lifestyle adaptations that conflict with personal values, causing grief that can be addressed through cognitive behavioral therapy focused on acceptance and identity integration rather than symptom elimination.
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago
Science

People who hate the sound of chewing have this heightened sensitivity that affects everything - Silicon Canals

Misophonia is a neurological condition causing intense emotional and physiological reactions to specific everyday sounds and often co-occurs with broader sensory sensitivities.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago
Mental health

Is Avoidance Adaptive or Maladaptive for Misophonia?

Avoiding triggers can be an adaptive, individually determined strategy for people with misophonia, balancing distress management with social and cultural expectations.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Hope and Help for Misophonia

Misophonia can severely impact a child's life, manifesting through both sound and visual triggers, often leading to significant distress and behavioral issues.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Misophonia: "Will You Please Stop Making That Noise?!"

Misophonia affects 10-20% of people, causing intense emotional reactions to ordinary sounds like chewing and breathing, yet lacks official diagnostic classification despite being well-documented.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Accepting That Misophonia Means Doing Things Differently

Misophonia requires lifestyle adaptations that conflict with personal values, causing grief that can be addressed through cognitive behavioral therapy focused on acceptance and identity integration rather than symptom elimination.
UX design
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Neuroinclusion Isn't Special Treatment

Workplace design often reflects unexamined assumptions about people, which can negatively impact neurodivergent employees and overall productivity.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

5 Ways to Accept Yourself More Fully as an Autistic Person

Autism Acceptance Month encourages self-compassion and acceptance of autistic individuals, recognizing their unique experiences and challenges.
fromDaily Mom magazine
3 weeks ago

Special Needs Summer Camp For Children, Special Needs Camp

Special needs summer camps are specialized programs designed for children and young adults with a range of disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ADHD, Down syndrome, and other developmental or physical challenges.
Parenting
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks ago

Psychology says people who compulsively tidy and reorganize aren't control freaks - they learned early that the one thing they could control was the physical space around them - Silicon Canals

Compulsive tidying is a response to anxiety, rooted in a need for control and predictability in unpredictable environments.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Is Separating Neurodevelopment and Mental Health Services Helpful?

Neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions overlap significantly, complicating service provision and funding support despite potential benefits of conceptual separation.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

school storage units transform into modular sensory furniture for early childhood education

TRIMINÓ is a modular furniture system for early childhood education that integrates sensory learning features into interactive storage units, supporting motor skills and literacy development through everyday use.
Health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Health, Music, Executive Function, and Emotions

Medical crises heighten sensory awareness, making sounds and objects become emotionally charged memories that permanently alter how we perceive them.
Psychology
fromThe Gottman Institute
1 month ago

What Is ASMR? The Science of Why Soft Sounds Calm Us Down

ASMR is a tingling relaxation response triggered by soft sounds and gentle attention, rooted in ancient social bonding behaviors predating modern terminology.
Parenting
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Question That Keeps Anxious Kids Awake at Night

Anxious children experience intense nighttime worry loops driven by overthinking, and reassurance paradoxically increases anxiety by reinforcing the need for certainty.
#profound-autism
Miscellaneous
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Mapping Space Without Sight: Inside SEAlab's Sensory Architecture

SEAlab designed a school for blind and visually impaired children by prioritizing spatial perception through observation, creating a simple geometric layout with a central courtyard as a navigational anchor.
Wellness
fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

Emergence is a New Kind of Multi-Sensorial Wellness Experience

The wellness sector reaches $6.3 billion in 2023 with 7.3% annual growth through 2028, expanding beyond traditional treatments into neuroscience-based experiences like Kinda Studio's personalized meditative Emergence service.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Psychology says people who remember the exact location of every item in their childhood home - which drawer, which shelf, which cupboard - aren't sentimental, their brain mapped that house the way a body maps a minefield, and the precision that looks like nostalgia is actually surveillance that never turned off - Silicon Canals

Detailed childhood home memories reflect survival-based hypervigilance rather than nostalgia, with brains mapping familiar spaces like tactical terrain to navigate unpredictable or chaotic environments.
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

People who can't walk through a store without running their fingers along every surface aren't being childish - they learned early that the world only felt real when their body confirmed it because the emotional information they received from people was never reliable enough to trust - Silicon Canals

For many of us, that compulsive need to touch isn't about poor impulse control. It's about confirmation. It's about making sure the world around us is real, solid, tangible - because somewhere along the line, we learned that the emotional landscape we navigated wasn't.
Psychology
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago

This MIT Prototype Translates Images Into Fragrances That Your Mind Remembers Better - Yanko Design

At a time when memories are increasingly flattened into folders, feeds, and cloud backups, a new experimental device from MIT Media Lab proposes a far more intimate archive: scent. Developed by Cyrus Clarke, the Anemoia Device is a speculative yet functional prototype that translates photographs into bespoke fragrances using generative AI, inviting users not to view memories, but to inhabit them through the body.
Gadgets
fromBig Think
1 month ago

The brain after blindness: How newly-sighted people build a visual world

If we told them to look at the face, they could usually manage it. But they were mostly looking at the hands. The Prakash children eventually learn to look at faces when spoken to - usually a few months after their surgeries. Their experiences reveal that seeing doesn't come naturally the moment a person is cured of blindness. Newly-sighted people must learn to see.
Science
Parenting
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Life with my autistic sons: How do you explain all the worries, the sleepless nights?'

A father balances caring for elderly parents with disabilities while raising autistic sons and maintaining a large social media presence documenting his family's experiences.
#sensory-play
fromYoga Journal
2 months ago

I Tried Floating in a Sensory Deprivation Tank. I Have Many Thoughts.

The idea of floating in a sensory deprivation tank has always appealed to me. I am a huge fan of fancy spa sessions and most things woo-woo, and floating-a service that invites you to submerge your body in super salty water in the dark, ditching your senses in favor of an anti-gravity experience-sounded like the ultimate meeting of the two. Spa-ish mindfulness! Good for my skin and my mind! Sign me up.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Science of Belonging for People With IDD

Developmental disabilities are actually quite common. In the United States, about 1 in 6 children has a developmental disability (CDC, 2024). Intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are a group of neurodevelopmental conditions usually present at birth that affect the trajectory of a person's physical, intellectual, and/or emotional development (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2021). Conditions such as Down Syndrome, Autism, Fragile X, Cerebral Palsy, and others are examples of intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Public health
Education
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

3 Things Teachers Wish Parents Knew About IEP Meetings

EC teachers frequently face intense administrative pressure to produce standardized-test results, which often conflicts with the educational needs of neurodiverse students.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

"Bad Behavior" Is Actually Overwhelm in Disguise

Many children's tantrums and defiant behaviors are biologically driven stress responses, signaling an overwhelmed nervous system operating from fight-flight-freeze.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

3 Green Flags of Neurodiversity-Affirming Autism Evaluations

Neurodiversity-affirming autism assessments center the individual's lived experience through respectful, collaborative evaluation and avoid stereotype-based diagnoses.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

When Autism and ADHD Travel Together

AuDHD—being both autistic and ADHD—affects 50-70% of autistic people and 20-65% of ADHD individuals, yet remains underdiagnosed due to diagnostic overshadowing and historical clinical restrictions.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Autism and Headphones: Beyond the Stereotypes

Noise-canceling headphones reduce steady background noise but can increase sensory overwhelm and make sudden sounds unexpectedly harsher, especially for autistic listeners.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

3 Common Cognitive Patterns Experienced by People With ADHD

Polyvagal theory, introduced in 1994 by psychologist Stephen Porges, highlights the role of the autonomic nervous system in regulating our health and behavior. Our lived experience of engaging with the world is impacted by external environmental cues, internal physical sensations, and relational experiences (e.g., an impression of connection, safety, and trust between individuals). Neuroception is our body's unconscious surveillance system that shifts us into one of three autonomic states needed to respond to a situation: rest-and-digest (social and safe), fight-or-flight (mobilization), or shutdown/collapse (immobilization).
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

What Parents Should Know About Oppositional Defiant Disorder

When a child is labeled "oppositional," adults often assume the problem is the child. In my experience as a child psychiatrist, the truth is often much more complicated. Both families sought out these schools, believing they were giving their children the best education possible. Instead, the schools failed their children, labeling them "oppositional" and "defiant" rather than addressing the root causes of their behavior.
Mental health
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Affective Side of Interoception

Interoception senses the body's internal milieu and evaluates goals, shaping attention and affect and including taste and smell as partly interoceptive.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Childhood Origins of Altered States in Adults

Systematic developmental and neuro-phenomenological research is needed to understand childhood consciousness. Anyone who has spent time with young children knows they have a way of saying things that make you pause and reconsider what you thought you understood. Many report non-ordinary experiences-moments of "just knowing," feeling outside their bodies, or sensing a deep unity with the world around them. These accounts suggest a form of consciousness that is relational, pre-linguistic, and not yet organized around a solid, separate self.
Psychology
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Environmental Sensitivity: A Transdiagnostic Trait?

Environmental sensitivity is a biologically-based, heritable trait involving heightened reactivity to physical, emotional, and social stimuli that functions as a transdiagnostic risk factor for mental health problems.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The AuDHD Strength of Being Attuned

Attuned AuDHD individuals have heightened perceptual and emotional sensitivity that fosters deep empathy and insight while increasing risk of sensory and emotional overload.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

What Happens When a Child's Thoughts Don't Turn Off?

Parental reassurance fuels children's overthinking-driven anxiety; pausing, acknowledging, containing worries, and engaging the child helps interrupt worry loops and reduce anxiety.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

From Fragmentation to Integration: A Map of Trauma Therapy

Trauma healing occurs across three integrated levels: intrapersonal nervous system regulation, interpersonal co-regulation and trust restoration, and transpersonal meaning reconnection.
#nervous-system
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago
Mental health

Psychology says the reason you feel inexplicably sad on days when nothing bad happened is often because your nervous system is finally safe enough to process grief it had been postponing for years - Silicon Canals

fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago
Mental health

Psychology says the reason you feel inexplicably sad on days when nothing bad happened is often because your nervous system is finally safe enough to process grief it had been postponing for years - Silicon Canals

Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

When Emotions Feel Out of Control in ADHD, BPD, and PTSD

Emotional dysregulation involves sudden, intense, persistent emotional responses that feel uncontrollable, often caused by brain-function differences, stress, or trauma.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Strengths That Autistic Adults Often Bring to Work and Life

Autistic adults often have strengths like hyperfocus, deep knowledge, and attention to detail that, when recognized, improve quality of life, careers, and relationships.
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