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- 4 June 2026The Right to Choose con as NHS alibi to abdicate responsibility for ADHD careI was made to perform my own ADHD “deficits” to be believed — years after my formal NHS diagnosis. Right to Choose is a con and an alibi to abdicate care.
- 3 June 2026Sexual and relational well-being in autistic adults — sensory differences, not deficitAutistic adults have been describing the sensory processing architecture of intimate experience for years — and the descriptions are detailed and consistent.
- 2 June 2026ADHD and autism as archetypes — and the 64 mechanisms hitherto known only as pathologyThe two diagnostic categories “ADHD” and “autism” are not, upon review, two disorders but two archetypal inventories of universal human cognitive mechanisms.
- 1 June 2026ADHD and proactive cognitive control of emotional information — the executive function frame cracks?New peer-reviewed ADHD study finds proactive cognitive control intact — the executive function frame cracks. The substrate is different, the demands aren’t.
- 29 May 2026Internalising symptoms and ADHD — new longitudinal evidence reframes the pictureA study published in PLOS One in May 2026 by Visser, Ehm, and Brandenburg set out to answer an important question about internalising symptoms and ADHD.
- 28 May 2026What autistic job satisfaction data reveals — the flatness at the heart of autistic employmentA study published in Research in Neurodiversity in 2026 by Barbara D’Entremont set out to identify what predicts job satisfaction among autistic employees.
- 27 May 2026Neuroinclusive retail keeps trying to fix the customerA new study did something the retail literature rarely does: it asked neurodivergent people directly what they want from the shops they use. Let’s unpack.
- 26 May 2026Rethinking cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) in ADHD and ASD — and why children learn to disengage, and keep doing itCognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) is the recently renamed construct that spent decades being called sluggish cognitive tempo. A new study dives deeper.
- 25 May 2026Awareness training now proven to fail neurodivergent staff — and discovery of “critical neurodivergent mass” thresholdA study published in Neurodiversity in 2026 put a question to the data: does raising awareness of neurodiversity make neurodivergent employees feel safer?
- 22 May 2026ADHD scholarship is now named — the social studies of ADHDA paper by Filipe and Holroyd maps three decades of social-scientific scholarship on ADHD and proposes a formal definition of a new interdisciplinary sub-field.
- 20 May 2026How digital environments are eroding the myth of “neurotypical” cognition while producing population-scale ADHDA systematic review synthesises 28 empirical studies published between 2016 and 2025 on the cognitive effects of digital multitasking on working memory.
- 19 May 2026Affect labelling, autism, and anxiety — why putting feelings into words needs scaffoldingA cross-sectional study by Fujii and Hirai at Nagoya University, published in Scientific Reports in 2026, surveyed 505 adults using four self-report measures.
- 12 May 2026Neurodiversity in the workplace — what scoping reviews in 2026 keep missing about why the workplace itself is the problemThe cluster in my corpus that addresses neurodiversity in the workplace editorially through the rest of 2026 and beyond will work from this starting position.
- 11 May 2026Psychedelics for autism and ADHD in 2026 and beyond — the lens the field cannot offerThe field is forming. Within a six-week window in 2026, three substantial reviews appeared on psychedelics and autism. All three share a structural blind spot.
- 7 May 2026ADHD medication and cardiovascular risk — the cumulative exposure problem clinical reviews keep underplayingA narrative review published in International Health Sciences Review synthesises the current evidence on psychostimulant cardiovascular safety in adult ADHD.
- 6 May 2026ADHD and apathy as opposite poles of motivational dysregulation — and what the clinical frame cannot seeThe unifying, conceptual argument: ADHD and apathy are NOT separate disorders requiring separate explanations, but opposite poles of motivational dysregulation.
- 5 May 2026ADHD and brain asymmetry: right hemisphere dominance correlates with attention and impulsivityA March 2026 study published in Frontiers in Neuroscience reports structural MRI findings children and adolescents with ADHD compared to matched controls.
- 4 May 2026ADHD memes are a symptom of clinical failureA new peer-reviewed paper accepted to CHI 2026 conducted the most comprehensive analysis to date of 350 ADHD memes from 14 ADHD-focused accounts on Instagram.
- 1 May 2026ADHD “technostress” is adult cybernetic attention strainTechnostress, the stress response to digital technology use at work, has been studied almost exclusively in neurotypical populations. There’s a proposed remedy.
- 30 April 2026Cognitive co-regulation and the neurodivergent market for AI dependencyA new paper in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Research proposes “AI-powered cognitive co-regulators” for the neurodivergent.
- 29 April 2026First validated scales developed to measure neurodivergent acceptance at workNo validated instrument existed to measure whether a workplace actually accepts neurodivergent employees — Logan Vickery’s Master’s thesis now fills this gap.
- 28 April 2026Masking is NOT an exhaustion symptom — it is situational navigationA new theoretical paper by independent researcher Timothy Speed argues that psychiatric diagnostics has fundamentally misunderstood autistic masking.
- 27 April 2026Neurodivergent school refusal — first ever scoping review shifts blame from child to environmentA new scoping review from the University of Auckland is the first to examine school refusal in neurodivergent adolescents without siloing by diagnosis.
- 24 April 2026Lisdexamfetamine and ADHD medication in pregnancy — full case studyAn April 2026 Therapeutic Advances in Reproductive Health report documents the pregnancy and postpartum outcomes of a woman with ADHD across two pregnancies.
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