Diverge Community for Neurodivergent Adults

Diverge Community for Neurodivergent Adults Community, in-home, and telehealth services to support unmet needs of the adult neurodivergent community

08/21/2026

POV: You’re trying to keep it together professionally, but a patient says, “You’re the first provider I’ve ever felt truly seen by when talking about my lived experiences.”

Me internally: 🥹😭🫠

The tears said everything I couldn’t. Sometimes being truly heard, understood, and seen is the most meaningful part of care. 🤍

08/20/2026

Southeast Michigan community side quest: help us clear some Ypsilanti teacher wishlists!

We’ve added several Ypsilanti Community Schools teacher wishlists to the Linktree in our bio, including classrooms at Perry Early Learning Center.

Many Ypsilanti classrooms serve families in communities where teachers are working with limited resources, and we know how often educators end up filling those gaps out of their own pockets.

So Diverge already purchased at least one item from every classroom wishlist we currently have linked, and now we’re inviting our community to join us.

Even one item can make a difference. Pick a classroom, grab something from their list, and help a local teacher start the school year feeling a little more supported.

And if you’re a Ypsilanti teacher with a classroom wishlist we should add, send it our way!

08/20/2026

Just me, a glass in hand, and the sudden confidence that my husband absolutely needs to hear about the new backyard project I’ve already mentally planned from start to finish.

Because apparently my favorite evening activity is relaxing for approximately 12 minutes before my ADHD brain decides, “You know what would make life better? A PROJECT.”

And naturally, I must tell him immediately, before I’ve researched the cost, materials, feasibility, or whether we actually need it.

My husband’s face says "what is she about to make me build?"

08/19/2026

Kindness does not equal compatibility.

Someone can be kind, caring, supportive, and genuinely a good person, and still not be someone you’re compatible with in a friendship.

And compatibility doesn't mean being the same. Differences aren't inherently bad. In fact, some of the most meaningful friendships include people with very different identities, brains, backgrounds, experiences, communication styles, and ways of moving through the world. Those differences can be valued, cared for, accommodated, and deeply loved.

The difference is whether there is space for both people's realities to exist.

Those differences might be racial, socioeconomic, cultural, disability related, neurodivergence related, or simply the result of having very different life experiences. You don't have to personally experience someone else's reality to recognize that it is real.

It becomes hurtful when someone's lived experience is repeatedly discredited because it doesn't match the other person's experience. “I haven't experienced that” is very different from “that doesn't happen.” or "well just do this".

Two people can experience the same world, and even the same situation, very differently.

You don't have to fully understand someone's experience to believe them. You don't have to share someone's barriers to acknowledge that those barriers exist. And you don't have to have the same needs to respect and care for theirs.

Sometimes incompatibility isn't actually about having differences. It's about whether those differences can exist in the friendship without either person having to repeatedly prove, justify, minimize, or defend their reality.

Someone can be a kind person and still not be the right friend for you.

That doesn't make either person bad. Sometimes it simply means the friendship isn't a space where both people's realities can be held with the care they deserve.

08/19/2026

Neurodivergent pattern recognition can feel like this sometimes, one tiny detail suddenly connects to something you noticed three conversations ago, a random facial expression, a change in routine, and approximately 47 other pieces of information your brain apparently saved for later.

ADHD and Autistic brains can be especially tuned into patterns, connections, inconsistencies, and details that other people may not immediately notice. Sometimes we don’t even realize we’ve been collecting the information until that final piece clicks into place and suddenly…

“IT’S ALL COMING TOGETHER”

And now I need everyone else to understand the elaborate connection my brain just made in approximately 0.3 seconds.

08/19/2026

Teachers do SO much with so little, and sometimes supporting a classroom can be as simple as clicking a link.

I added several teachers wishlists for Ypsilanti Community to the Linktree in my bio. Perry serves a community where classrooms are often working with limited resources, and these wishlists include items teachers have specifically identified to support their students and learning spaces.

If you have a few extra dollars, want to clear an item off a list, or are looking for a direct way to support local teachers and students, **go check out the wishlists in the bio!**

Even one item can make a difference in helping a teacher create the classroom their students deserve.

**Linktree in bio → Teacher Wishlists → Support a Perry classroom**

08/18/2026

One of my favorite parts about virtual book club is that I still get the community, friendship, and deep conversations I love without adding a whole extra layer of demands to my day.

As a neurodivergent working mom, going out can mean coordinating schedules, figuring out childcare, getting ready, driving, navigating sensory input, socializing, and then needing time to regulate afterward. Sometimes I have the capacity for all of that, and sometimes I have the capacity to open my laptop with a drink and talk about a book with my friends.

Virtual doesn’t make the connection any less meaningful. It just makes it more accessible.

Creating community that works WITH our nervous systems instead of expecting us to push through them is something I will always support.

08/16/2026

One of the biggest transitions from high school to college isn’t just the classes, it’s the huge change in how support works.

In high school, there is often an entire system helping identify what you need. Teachers may notice you’re struggling, parents can communicate with the school, accommodations are built into an IEP or 504, and adults may provide reminders, structure, check ins, or help with organization without you even realizing how much support is happening behind the scenes.

Then college starts…and suddenly you are expected to initiate so much of it yourself.

You may have to contact disability services, provide documentation, understand your accommodations, communicate those accommodations to professors, schedule your own appointments, keep track of assignments across multiple platforms, manage meals and laundry, navigate a completely new environment, and recognize when you need help before things become overwhelming.

For neurodivergent students, that shift can be MASSIVE.

It doesn’t necessarily mean you suddenly became “bad at school.” The environment changed. The expectations changed. The scaffolding changed.

That’s why preparing for college shouldn’t only be about academics. It can also mean figuring out your executive functioning systems, sensory needs, routines, self-advocacy, accommodations, regulation strategies, and what supports need to replace the ones that naturally existed in high school.

Needing more support during a major transition makes sense, especially when the entire structure around you has changed.

08/15/2026

Apparently my nervous system’s version of a luxury experience is… a giant pit of corn.

There’s SO much sensory input happening here. I love the tactile experience of running my hands through the corn and feeling all those little pieces moving against my skin. The auditory input from the corn shifting, crunching, and falling is also ridiculously satisfying.

But one of my favorite parts is the proprioceptive input. When you sink into the corn, the weight and pressure of it against your body provides resistance and deep pressure. Proprioceptive input gives our nervous system information about where our body is in space and, for many people, that pressure and resistance can feel incredibly organizing or regulating.

Sensory regulation doesn’t always have to come from a designated “sensory tool.” Sometimes it’s a weighted blanket, pushing or pulling something heavy, a fidget…and sometimes it’s being a grown adult completely delighted to bury yourself in corn.

And yes, you can find this giant corn pit at DeBuck's Family Farm in Michigan.

Neurodivergent joy + sensory seeking + play absolutely count as meaningful occupations.

08/14/2026

A lot can change in a year.

A year ago, there were days when I was literally on the floor resting because that was what my body and nervous system needed in order to function. And to be clear, resting was still productive. Rest was part of taking care of myself, not something I needed to earn or feel guilty about.

But looking back now, I can also see how much has shifted.

Not because I magically became less neurodivergent. Not because I pushed myself harder or learned to “power through.” But because I started building a life that actually works WITH my brain and body.

The right habits.
Routines that support me instead of control me.
Systems that reduce the executive functioning load.
More awareness of what my nervous system needs.
And maybe most importantly, a community of people who understand me and don’t expect me to constantly explain or justify my needs.

I still rest. I still have lower capacity days. I still accommodate myself.

But I’m happier. I have more capacity. I can do more of the things that actually matter to me.

Sometimes progress isn’t becoming capable of doing more and more.

Sometimes it’s creating a life that requires less of you in the wrong places, so you have more of yourself left for the right ones.

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