This is the video of a presentation I did at the APNW (Autistic Professionals Network Wellington) meeting on the 20th of September 2026. In it I share my personal journey of discovering I am AuDHD (Autistic + ADHD), including growing up with multiple neurodivergent conditions, receiving an ADHD diagnosis in my
For context I am autistic & ADHD and coming out of my first huge AuDHD burnout which started last October, so 9 months ago. After several weeks of being in executive dysfunction and probably demand avoidance, I finally got a robotics order done that I should really have completed weeks
This is the video of my presentation at the Water Industry Operations Group (WIOG) conference in May 2026. WIOG is an amazing organisation and I'm grateful to them for this opportunity. Learn more about WIOG at www.wiog.org.nz Presentation Slides: The slides for my presentation are
This is a big deal for me because as well as being autistic and ADHD I also have bad interoception, which is how your body recognises things like feeling hungry, full, thirsty, tired or exhausted etc. I just got back from a big conference last week, it was the Water
This is the title and abstract of my paper about neurodiversity that I will be presenting at the Water Industry Operations Group NZ (WIOG) annual conference in May 2026 at Rotorua. Being a AuDHD electronics and software engineer, I'm so grateful for the opportunity to be a part
I am autistic, adhd and have auditory processing disorder (APD) and what I just experienced is a beautiful example of what it can be like living with all three of these at the same time. Firstly let me describe what happened and then I'll look at the reasons
Being an engineering nerd, I find the best way to understand something is to write about it. And that applies to my AuDHD brain too. So here is my AuDHD experience for today. I did not have the best sleep last night. I woke up at 3:00am and didn&
Since I discovered I have bad interoception last year I have kind of got to know more about my body including the fact that I don't consciously perceive all of what's going on in it. I had a really long day yesterday and as a result
There are some periods in which my autism and ADHD really limit what I can do because my available capacity is just way too low. In other words I'm just plain out of spoons. During these periods even basic things like typing feel almost impossible. Late this afternoon
Slowly over the last few weeks, I have noticed a distinct increase in my excitement over my current project as I work on it more and more. Finding the NATS protocol has definitely helped a lot. It's almost like the designers of NATS were in my head and
My ADHD has this habit of writing checks that my autism can’t cash. It usually goes like this. ADHD gets all excited about going out (something my autism generally doesn’t like): dinner at a restaurant with friends, going to a movie, concert etc. So I end up going
It’s neurodiversity celebration week and I wanted to mark it by describing just a little of what makes my brain neurodivergent. So here are some of the ways in which I experience the world that may surprise you. I have AuDHD (Autism and ADHD), global aphantasia and SDAM (Severely