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04/10/2026

Therapy that does not understand your cultural context often misses the point entirely. Here is what culturally responsive therapy actually looks like.

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01/10/2026

Three weeks to go: Lunch & Learn #2, 21 October, 12.30–1pm, online and free. Built for GPs.

We'll cover assessment wait times, masking in CALD clients, and where ADHD and trauma overlap, plus our collaboration with Umeed as a referral pathway.
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17/09/2026

Lunch & Learn #2 has a new date: Wed 21 Oct, 12.30–1pm, online and free. Built for GPs.

We'll cover:
- Adult ADHD when it's missed (anxiety that won't budge, chronic burnout)
-Masking in CALD clients
- ADHD and trauma, how to tell them apart
- What to listen for in a short consult
- What to do when someone's waiting six months for an assessment

Plus our collaboration with Umeed as a referral pathway, and where Indus fits before and after a diagnosis.

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16/09/2026

Neurodivergence does not just affect the person diagnosed. It shapes every relationship they are in. Here is what partners and families actually need to understand.

When one partner receives a neurodivergent diagnosis, it often reframes years of conflict, miscommunication, and accumulated hurt.

The things that looked like indifference were sometimes sensory overload. The communication that felt withholding was sometimes a processing difference. The rigidity that felt controlling was sometimes a need for predictability that the other person did not know existed.

None of this excuses behaviour. But it changes the explanatory frame. And that change matters enormously for what therapy can actually do.

I work with couples where one or both partners are neurodivergent, and with families navigating a diagnosis together. The work involves building a shared language for what is happening, developing genuine understanding rather than just tolerance, and finding communication approaches that work for the actual brains in the relationship.

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14/09/2026

Autism in adults who have been masking for decades looks nothing like the clinical textbook. Here is what it actually tends to look like.

The clinical criteria for autism were developed primarily from research on young white males. The broader picture, particularly the way autism presents in people who have spent decades developing sophisticated masking strategies, often goes unrecognised until something forces a review.

That something is usually burnout. A major life transition. A relationship breakdown. A child's diagnosis that prompts a parent to look at their own history differently.

What late-identified autistic adults often describe is a lifetime of profound social effort. Of working out what everyone else seems to just know. Of building scripts, rehearsing conversations, analysing interactions for hours afterward. Of feeling perpetually slightly out of step with a world that moves at a frequency they were not born to receive.

The relief of the diagnosis is real. So is the complexity of rebuilding an identity around it when you have spent your whole adult life being someone else.

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12/09/2026

When the workplace was not built for your brain, the cost of fitting in is invisible but real. Here is what neurodivergence in the workplace actually looks like.

For neurodivergent employees, the workplace often presents a particular kind of difficulty. Not just the work itself, but the social and environmental conditions that surround it.

Open plan offices. Back-to-back meetings. Ambiguous communication. Unspoken social rules. Feedback that targets behaviour without understanding the neurological basis of it.

Microaggressions toward neurodivergent employees tend to be low-level and cumulative. Comments about forgetfulness, disorganisation, or intensity. Being managed for the symptom rather than supported through the underlying difference.

The cumulative effect of navigating this over years, often without a diagnosis or language for what is happening, is significant. Good workplace support for neurodivergent employees is not about lowering standards. It is about changing conditions so the person can actually meet them.

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11/09/2026

One of the most common barriers to talking about domestic violence in South Asian communities is not the lack of awareness that something is wrong. It is the weight of what will happen if you say it out loud.

The shame does not just belong to the person experiencing it. It gets distributed across the whole family. Across the community. Across the reputation of everyone connected to you. And when that is the calculation, silence becomes the safest option, even when it is not.

What I see in the room, and what came up at the What Will People Say event, is that the people who do find their way through that silence rarely do it alone. There is usually one person, a friend, a cousin, a clinician, sometimes a stranger, who made it safe enough to say the first thing out loud.

That first conversation is everything. It does not fix everything. But it makes the next conversation possible.

If you are carrying something you have not been able to say yet, you do not have to start with a big conversation. You just have to start somewhere.

If you or someone you know needs support, 1800RESPECT is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 1800 737 732.

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08/09/2026

ADHD in adults looks nothing like the hyperactive kid in a classroom. Here is what it actually looks like for the adults I work with.

Most people's mental model of ADHD comes from how it presents in children. ADHD in adults, and particularly in women and people who were not diagnosed in childhood, tends to look very different.

It looks like starting ten projects and finishing three. Like knowing exactly what you need to do and being completely unable to start it. Like hyperfocusing on something for six hours and forgetting to eat. Like a car with a broken fuel gauge, alternately running on empty and completely flooded.

It also looks like being extraordinarily creative, highly empathetic, capable of remarkable focus when something genuinely interests you, and deeply exhausted by the effort of managing a brain that moves differently.

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04/09/2026

Getting a late ADHD or autism diagnosis in your 30s or 40s changes everything. And nothing. The relief and the grief arrive together. Here is what that looks like.

There is relief. Finally having language for something that has shaped your entire life. The struggles that looked like laziness, failure, or personality flaws suddenly have a clinical name and a neurological explanation.

But there is also grief. For the years spent not knowing. For the support that was not available. For the version of yourself that might have been possible with the right understanding earlier.

Both of those things are real and they tend to arrive simultaneously. A lot of people rush past the grief to get to the practical stuff. I think slowing down in the grief is important. What you are processing is not just a diagnosis. It is a reframe of your entire personal history.

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03/09/2026

Neurodivergence is not a disorder. It is a different way of being wired. September at Indus is all about neurodivergence and identity. Here is where we are starting.

Neurodivergence is an umbrella term covering ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and other neurological differences. These are not deficits. They are differences in how the brain processes, attends, communicates, and experiences the world.

The term was coined by sociologist Judy Singer in the late 1990s. What it points to is not a broken brain, but a brain that operates differently to what most systems, schools, and workplaces were built for.

That mismatch between the brain and the environment is where most of the difficulty actually lives. Not in the neurodivergent person. In the gap between how they are wired and what the world expects.

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