Looking across the lifespan, hyperneuroplasticity emerges as a systemic orientation that permeates every stage of development, rather than a temporary trait to be gained or lost.

Looking across the lifespan, hyperneuroplasticity emerges as a systemic orientation that permeates every stage of development, rather than a temporary trait to be gained or lost.

Among hyperneuroplastic individuals, those who rarely or never dissociate seem more likely to develop tinnitus, possibly because their auditory systems remain in continuous engagement.

Between the old and the new, something deeply human takes place: the making and unmaking of meaning.

They did not cease to matter, but that I no longer needed their mattering to hold its form, or mine.

This guide provides a quick way to grasp all the key elements of recovery from neurodivergent burnout, including examples of what these concepts might look like and how you might implement them.

And the silence held by the reflective parent who could not take space can be reinterpreted as absence. And in the absence of context, silence becomes an abandonment where the memories never made get already discarded.

What emerges from that work is not perfect harmony. It is rhythm—a negotiated, evolving balance between autonomy and connection.

For the gifted individual, identity is thus a “fractal” phenomenon, in the sense that “selfhood” exists in layers.

Is normal good? Self-stigma from not being normal can make healing or growth difficult. This essay reframes the conversation.

Recently, I posed the question: why are we called Bloomers? The responses were as varied as they were delightful

There it was - finally proof that I was intuiting correctly. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been dismissed or told that I was crazy.

The one to break the silence, to stir the stillness, to craft new life from the bones of the past.

I would have died from lack of oxygen trying to help those around me first.

When my neurodivergent research kept resonating with me, I sought an assessment to ‘reality test’ my ideas, thoughts, and intuitions.

They say cracks are where the light comes in, forgetting that meant to see the sun, I had to first be broken.

Sharing how the journey started and the joys and struggles along the way.

Readers of this blog will know that I occasionally report nighttime dreams here, with interpretations that may be more or less elaborate.

Figuring my own gifted needs has taken dozens and dozens of Perception checks, Wisdom saving throws and Investigation rolls.

...allowing the experiment, allowing the acceptance, allowing the difference, and holding it all with curiosity and compassion.