I am a technology coach, strategist and maker. I bring curiosity, awareness and action to technology teams as they dance with culture and society. More

Reframing Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
Every so often I come across a description of neurodiversity that is both enlightening and also a mild bummer in that it makes behaviours sound like a problem with the neurodiverse person rather than an effect of society’s difficulties with understanding and appreciating them. It takes a bit of work to pick out what is useful in these well-intentioned discourses and leave behind the pathologising - ie not to throw out the baby with the bathwater....