About

Since I was diagnosed at forty five with ADHD and then forty eight with autism, I’ve lived the experience out in the open to help try and normalise talking about neurodiversity.

I’m a technology professional living near Southampton in the UK with my wife and our two labradors. My passions in life outside of my family and work are music and art, and I am both a DJ and passionate painter-in-training.

Having spent decades feeling like I didn’t fit and not seeing many people like me, I thought people might welcome someone talking honestly about what it was like.

I have a podcast called Glitchy Switch which is where I talk things through in real time — what I’m noticing, what I’m learning, what’s changing. But audio has a limitation: it’s hard to use later. You might remember that something helped, but not where it was, or how it was phrased, or what the practical takeaway actually was.

I am also a passionate advocate for AuDHD UK, and host a podcast for them called We Too Are One where I interview people with a wide range of perspectives on neurodiversity to raise awareness of the charity and AuDHD.

I thought I’d create this blog to distil those things down into what I hope are my clearest, most useful guidance so it’s searchable, skimmable, bookmarkable, and easy to share.

Most posts will be written as reference pieces rather than personal updates. They’ll be structured, direct, and designed to be returned to, with my own experiences provided by way of a worked example of how it’s been for someone else.

I hope you’re finding this useful anyway, and please do get in touch and let me know what you think and what you’d like to hear about.