Amanda Ruechel MSW, LCSW

07/29/2026

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04/23/2026

Mistakes are not the enemy. Mistakes are just life doing its thing. Be patient with yourself.

03/19/2026

And that’s okay.

03/19/2026

03/13/2026

As Neurodiversity Celebration Week approaches, I just want to remind folks that the goal isn’t to narrow neurodiversity down to a couple of diagnoses but to acknowledge and celebrate the diversity of all human minds.

Not some human minds.
Not just Autism and ADHD.

All human minds.
All human differences.

People think, perceive, communicate, feel, and process the world in many different ways.

People who hear voices.
People with low empathy.
People who experience altered states.
People who experience plurality or multiplicity.
Non-speakers and people who communicate in ways beyond speech.
People whose internal experiences don’t fit neatly into diagnostic boxes.

Neurodiversity isn’t a short list of conditions we’ve decided are acceptable to talk about.

Celebrating neurodiversity means making space for the full spectrum of how people exist including the ways of being that are still misunderstood, stigmatised or rarely acknowledged even within neurodiversity spaces.