My free 30-page guide to rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD), for autistic and ADHD people of every age and the people who support them. Practical tools for the moment, the aftermath and the long term, written with warmth and lived experience.
There is a question I still watch clinicians visibly brace themselves for. Not "have you ever self-harmed," not "tell me about your relationship with alcohol," but something far more mundane in principle and far more loaded in practice:
I want you to do something. Open LinkedIn or your preferred recruitment site, search for autism assessment clinician roles, and scroll for a few minutes.
This week I attended training on selective mutism, organised by Diagnostics CEN and delivered by Libby Hill and Abigail Mance, speech and language therapists whose depth of knowledge and quiet expertise in this area genuinely stopped me in my tracks. It was one of those rare CPD experiences that does not merely inform but prompts genuine reflection: on what good clinical practice looks like, on where the gaps exist in the services I work within and alongside, and on the profe
