Don't Encourage It
A conversation about Socratic questions, and what happens when a tool for questioning thoughts meets a brain that already questions everything.
Conversations
All conversations
A complete view of the conversation series, kept in one clean list.
Conversation with My Brain: “You Like Feeling Bad”
A dialogue about the difference between asking “Can I do it?” and asking whether the outcome is worth the cost.
A session gets cancelled. Brain, why are you sounding the alarm?
A conversation with the brain about how the alarm after a cancelled session does not always mean a decision to quit, but a loss of structure, purpose, and continuity in the process.
How can you have AuDHD when you seem to manage so much?
A conversation with my brain about AuDHD: parallel processes, anchors (tasks attached to context), the cost of switching, and what people do not see from the outside.
Fog, Frost, and the Color of the Door
About memory that does not arrive as a complete story, but as fragments: color, light, smell, tension, and one detail from which a map can begin.
Neurodivergence Is Not a Superpower
A conversation about being tired of the narrative that neurodivergence is a gift, and about the everyday cost of functioning in a world that only sees 'superpowers'.
Excluded by Support Structures
A conversation about the gap between the existence of options and their actual feasibility in a state of overload and alarm.
If this is what adulthood looks like, then what should therapy look like?
A compilation of two presentations from the PDA Conference in Perth (November 11, 2025): Noa Saddik Extreme PDA in Adults Honours Project Dr. Miriam Kirkby & Melanie Turner Therapeutic Work with Adults with PDA
Trilogy on SIB
A three-part conversation based on the study 'Child and Family Characteristics as Predictors of the Severity of Self-injurious Behaviours in Autistic Children and Adolescents' (2026): what SIB is, what the brain wants in therapy, and what it does not want.
Neurodivergent Therapy in an Analytical-Structural Mode
A conversation about freeze after the Poznań tragedy and how analysis, structure, and data separation help a person move out of a state of existential threat.
Monotropism live: when the brain builds a network of meanings and the world sees a word mistake
A conversation about monotropism as an algorithm for building meanings, the difference between 'meaning demand' and 'task demand', and reconfiguration of cognitive networks in autistic thinking.
Ms. Krystyna and 5 Levels of Listening (Autistic Version)
Conversation about how an autistic brain listens - from ignoring to empathic processing. Why external behavior is not a reliable indicator.
Conversation with My Brain: Manual Lady vs. Cartesian System
Reflection on the difference between traditional textbook-based therapy and therapeutic approaches affirming neurodivergent people.
SensoryOverload: Shutdown Between Platforms
A conversation about sensory overload during Italian public transport. About shutdown, self-regulation and survival mechanisms between platforms.
Autistic Pride Day: I Don't Celebrate. But I'm Here. And That Is Enough.
A conversation about Autistic Pride Day that is not about celebration, but about being. About pain that does not disappear and the value of autistic life without conditions.
Brain in therapy: what happens inside when the therapist asks a question?
A conversation about what happens in the brain during therapeutic sessions. About questions without vector, processing time and adapting language to autistic thinking.
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A conversation about time, ADHD, attention fading, and organizing attempts that disappear from view faster than any plan can start working.
Neurodivergent Friends: Relationships That Understand
The social definition of relationships versus my own experience. A conversation about neurodivergent communication, trust without algorithm, and friendship as shelter from a world that measures value in efficiency.
Therapy? Seriously? Again?
A conversation about what the brain needs in therapy: from flexibility to transparency. A must-have checklist for neurodivergent clients.
Hyperfocus on the Offensive
A dialogue with a brain that knows no pause: hyperfocus as a curse, not a superpower. About addiction to intensity and sudden shifts between interests.