Neurodivergent Nelly

28/01/2024

Hello! I’ve not posted on here in aaaaaggggeeees! The reason for this is I have set up a business (soon to be a CIC community interest company) offering neurodiversity training, talks and events in the north—west of England (although we have lots of online events so doesn’t matter where you are)as you can imagine this has taken up al my time and head space.

I’m unlikely to be posting on here but I’m still here, I’m just over on the ND Matters page! I’ll be sharing some memes and infographics from Nelly as well as obviously letting people know about our events? Hope you can join me there 🥰

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088838246558

Neurodiversity training, talks and events. Based in the north-west of England. We offer training to businesses wanting to create inclusive workplaces We also offer several community events for the ND & NT communities

13/08/2023

If you’re in Manchester in October and fancy coming to our ND night, our second act has just been announced 🎉 details below

28/07/2023

So much this!

23/07/2023

Any ND artists/performers in the Manchester uk area may be interested in this, along with anyone who wants to join us an evening of music, comedy and networking

Tickets to our launch night event ‘ND sounds’ go on sale tonight and are just £5 through EventBrite.

🎤 Book tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nd-sounds-volume-1-tickets-680147458357?aff=oddtdtcreator

🎤 Express your interest to perform [email protected]

🎤See who we are https://ndmatters.com

16/07/2023

This is the new venture by my business partner and I.
Our official launch will be in October however in the meantime, we are on fb ND Matters and Insta, and would love for you to have a look at our website and pages and give us a like if it’s something you are interested in and feel free to share. Thank you 😊

Bespoke neurodiversity training, talks and events based in North west England,

15/07/2023

A fantastic resource created by lots of autistic young people, with the guidance of Spectrum Gaming 🥰
Lots of info on there for anyone looking for in depth, straight forward explanations from lived experiences.

We are now live! See our website about autism, for autistic young people here: https://autismunderstood.co.uk/

Thank you so much to everyone who worked with us to make this a reality

14/07/2023

Seen on The Autistic Teacher

13/07/2023

True story…

07/05/2023

I’m not sure how to feel about this. Obviously I’ve not seen it so can’t comment on the content. However my fear is that this will play into the ‘everyone suddenly has ADHD narrative’ There is already a stigma, and many in the ‘why do you need a label? in my day we just got on with it’ brigade.

It’s true there has been a huge increase in ADHD diagnosis in the last few years myself included, I believe this is down to more awareness on the whole around neurodivergent conditions, particularly in women/girls. I don’t think this is a bad thing.

This episode talks about private diagnosis which is what I got. I couldn’t face the roulette of a GP route and potentially being told I couldn’t have ADHD because I ‘have a job’ ‘have a stable relationship’ ‘am not a criminal’ or ‘am a woman’

Many people think you can ‘buy’ a diagnosis, and not for cheap either. As I said I’ve not seen the episode and I’m interested to see what sort of companies are doing this and for what purpose. You have to pay regardless of the outcome, so what is the benefit?

To get my diagnosis I had to fill out several very lengthy screening forms. I also had to give forms to someone who knows me now and someone who knew me as a child. I had to evidence traits were there before the age of 12, you can’t just say this is how I feel now. I also had to take in school reports. After this I then spent 2.5 hours with a psychiatrist going through many uncomfortable topics as well as doing the clinical assessment, which was tedious, repetitive, and boring, particularly for anyone who struggles to sit for long periods.

I’m also interested as to why someone would want to ‘buy’ a diagnosis of ADHD. Yes there are some benefits and it’s part of who I am but there is also a lot of toxic positivity around having a superpower etc 🤢
For the most part it’s a massive ballache.

This may be a programme to call out the companies that are doing the assessments and just giving out diagnosis’ but I worry this will only fuel the uneducated, and play into the idea that suddenly everyone needs some sort of label. I hope I’m wrong.

Do the thousands of people turning to private clinics for an assessment really have ADHD?

12/03/2023

Hello!
Next week is neurodiversity celebration week!
There’s lots of free webinars going on if you wanted to learn more 🥰

11/02/2023

The comments 🤣

24/01/2023

Still true

24/12/2022

Sorry for the lack of posts lately I’ve been busy with non internet life! Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year 🥳 xx

20/11/2022

🥰

30/10/2022

Seen on a friends timeline 🤣

13/10/2022

🤮 to all these things

12/10/2022

Always this!

12/10/2022

My year 11 pupil contribution 😳

For the record I didn’t, and I didn’t