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Have you ever lost track of time so completely that hours vanish? Or struggled to estimate how long even simple tasks will take? This...

The feeling of being an outsider, of speaking a different language, is more than a fleeting discomfort for many sensory neurodivergent individuals; it's a deeply ingrained experience, a constant undercurrent in a world that often feels out of sync.

While many of us understand the idea of sensory overwhelm, it can be hard to grasp how debilitating or traumatic it can be to the nervous systems of sensory neurodivergent people over time. Below, we’ll explore this first of the 6 key ways autistic and other sensory neurodivergent people experience trauma to learn what it’s like, how it impacts neurodivergent people, and how we can change our environment to reduce the impact.

Through my own healing journey and psychotherapeutic work with clients, I've come to realize that trauma is often at the core of what we're addressing when we work with neurodivergent people. Trauma is any experience that overwhelms our nervous system and leaves us feeling unsafe, dysregulated, or disconnected from ourselves. It can be a single incident, like a car accident or a natural disaster. Or it can be ongoing, like...