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Hi, I’m Jack.

My world is shaped by autism, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), dyslexia, APD (Auditory Processing Disorder), global aphantasia, challenges with my interoception and alexithymia. Divergence: a deviation from the norm, and that is unashamedly who I am.

I was born with all of the above and have been aware of them most of my life, except for my autism, that's still very new to me, and was the catalyst for this site. My autism remained hidden from me because my ADHD is very obvious and had been diagnosed in the mid 1990s. You see, my ADHD overshadowed my autism so effectively that no one, including me, suspected I was autistic. The first hints of my autism appeared in February 2025 after a change in my ADHD medication dramatically improved my ADHD symptoms. This improvement allowed my autism to begin emerging from underneath my ADHD for the first time. 

Since then I’ve been experiencing so many changes as my autism takes its proper place alongside my ADHD. In December 2025 I was formally diagnosed with autism and it is now largely dominant over my ADHD. Back in the mid 1990's, when I was diagnosed with ADHD, everyone thought ADHD was a childhood condition that people grew out of. There was very little information available for adults with ADHD. Fast forward to 2026 and the same seems to apply to adult autism & ADHD today. My autism realisation journey was more difficult than it needed to be because of the lack of information out there that fit my combination of ADHD and autism. Combining autism and ADHD with my other neurodivergences has made for a very interesting, challenging and often confusing journey, especially as the experiences of others rarely meshed with my own, or the ways in which I experience the world. Thus this site is a place where I share my journey in the hope that others will find the information useful.

Additionally this site is my chance to give back and honor the people who helped me get this far. It’s a place where I share my lived experience of being neurodivergent: how I perceive the world, how it affects my daily life, and what I’m learning as I go.

I’m not a health professional, and nothing on this website is medical advice.

I gave a TED talk in 2022 about neurodivergence, before my autism diagnosis:

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