The Bright Insight Blog

For many years, AuDHDers may have been misidentified as having bipolar disorder, meaning that studies of bipolar populations could actually be describing this experience. This raises critical questions about how much of the literature reflects autistic and dynamically attentive lived realities rather than distinct mood disorder trajectories.

...hyperplasticity is a way of being that carries extraordinary creativity and real vulnerability, requiring balance and understanding rather than cure. It also illustrates a broader principle that runs through the entire conversation: adaptation must be balanced with stability.

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

And like ships designed for long, demanding journeys, galvanic individuals need regular maintenance, conscious design, and systems that help them stay afloat, without corroding in silence, sinking into hidden spaces, or wrecking against unattended shores.

The word felt loaded with assumptions I never agreed to: exceptionalism, elitism, overachievement, even ease. None of these described my inner world...