There is a slightly strange process my brain seems to go through whenever I look at a piece of creative, and until fairly recently I had never really stopped to think about it. For the first few seconds I am almost deliberately not looking for anything specific, I am just noticing what hits me, whereContinue reading “Why Does That Feel Right? What Branding Is Doing to Your Brain Before You Even Notice”
Tag Archives: autistic
I Don’t Know How to Explain How Low I Feel
I have written about confidence, rejection and trying to find purpose again, but I have mostly been writing around depression rather than what it actually feels like to live inside it. This is probably the hardest article I have written, because there is no recovery story yet… I am still trying to understand it while I am going through it.
I Know What Makes Me Different. I’m Still Learning to Believe in It
After twelve years+ in marketing, I am beginning to understand that my value may not come from being the deepest specialist in one area, but from the way my autistic brain connects everything together. I reflect on pattern recognition, curiosity, strategy and creativity, while being honest about how difficult it is to recognise your own strengths when rejection keeps making you question them.
How Many Times Can You Be Rejected Before You Start Believing It?
After months of applications, silence and rejection, job searching has become about far more than finding work. It has started to affect my confidence, my mental health and the way I see my own experience. As an autistic adult, I have also found myself questioning whether recruitment processes always give people the chance to show what they can actually do.
Why Dancing Brings My Mind Back Into Balance
For most of my life I simply thought of dancing as something I enjoyed. It wasn’t until my autism diagnosis in my thirties that I realised it had been quietly helping regulate my mind for years. This article explores how rhythm, movement and community became one of the few places where my thoughts finally slow down.
Autism Acceptance Month and World Autism Day
Understanding autism is not the same as understanding me, and that difference is where most of the challenge lives.
Where Is The Line? Humour, Masking and Missing Social Signals
A personal reflection on struggling to know where “the line” is in social situations as an autistic adult. This article explores humour, masking, workplace grey areas and the exhausting replay that follows when intent and impact do not match, and why understanding the person matters more than rigid rules.
Pressure to Perform at Work and at Home
A reflective piece on the pressure to perform at work and at home as an autistic adult. This article explores internal standards, burnout, shutdown and the quiet weight of expectation, and how understanding, rather than change, can reshape how pressure is carried through my eyes.
Why Logic Comes First for Me
A lot of how I think, process information, and make decisions is grounded in logic rather than intuition. I don’t rely comfortably on gut feel alone. My brain looks for evidence, patterns, past outcomes, and a clear chain of reasoning. When that isn’t present, it doesn’t just feel uncomfortable – it feels unsafe. This alignsContinue reading “Why Logic Comes First for Me”
Why I Can’t “Just Let It Go” – When Logic Has to Come First
There’s a phrase people often reach for when something is bothering me. It sounds simple, well-intentioned, even supportive. “Just let it go” “Try not to dwell on it” “Don’t overthink it” But for me, those words don’t bring relief. They don’t calm anything down or quiet my thoughts. Once my brain has locked onto somethingContinue reading “Why I Can’t “Just Let It Go” – When Logic Has to Come First”