J.K. Hamilton

A psychedelic-style cartoon illustration of two anthropomorphic brains lounging on a vibrant orange and red swirled cushion. Both brains are smiling with drool dripping from their mouths, eyes half-closed in bliss. They’re surrounded by colorful musical notes, wavy rainbow patterns, and a lava lamp. A retro speaker with sunglasses and a mustache stands nearby, adding to the surreal, laid-back atmosphere.

Quick Check-In from the Land of Brain Fog & Couch Vibes

Hey folks—just a quick note to say I haven’t vanished! My arm’s been acting up, so I’m on an unplanned healing break. 😬

Fresh neurodivergent content is brewing—stay tuned and stay weird. ✌🏻

Interoception in AuDHD: Unlocking the Hidden Sense That Shapes Emotional Awareness

Ever feel emotions hit out of nowhere? Interoception—the hidden sense—might be why. This piece explores how AuDHD alters body awareness and emotional regulation.

The Executive Dysfunction Tangle When Your Brain’s CEO Is on Strike

When your brain’s CEO clocks out, even simple tasks become Olympic events. This piece unpacks the tangled mess of executive dysfunction—and why it’s not laziness, it’s neurology.

Sleep Issues in AuDHD: Disrupted Rest, Disrupted Lives By J.K. Hamilton

“Sleep Issues in AuDHD”

Racing thoughts, restless nights—sleep isn’t simple for many with AuDHD. This article explores the science behind disrupted rest and offers insight into reclaiming it.

Sensory Sensitivities in AuDHD: Navigating a World That Overwhelms

“Sensory Sensitivities in AuDHD”

Lights too bright? Sounds too sharp? For those with AuDHD, the world can overwhelm in an instant. This piece explores why—and how to navigate it with more clarity and care.

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You Might Have AuDHD If… The Science Behind the Chaos

“You Might Have AuDHD If… The Science Behind the Chaos”

Ever feel like your brain is running twelve tabs with eight songs playing and no idea where the sound is coming from? You’re not alone. This piece dives into the beautifully chaotic world of AuDHD—where autism and ADHD intersect...

Neurodiversity-Affirming Approaches From Pathology to Empowerment: Reclaiming Care for Neurodivergent Minds

“Neurodiversity-Affirming Approaches: From Pathology to Empowerment”

This piece challenges outdated models of care and explores how neurodiversity-affirming approaches shift the focus from ‘fixing’ to understanding.

The AuDHD Experience: 11 Key Dimensions of Co-Occurring Autism and ADHD

“The AuDHD Experience” breaks down 11 key dimensions where autism and ADHD intersect—revealing the unique challenges, strengths, and lived realities of this often misunderstood neurotype. If you’ve ever felt like your brain runs on parallel tracks, this one’s for you.

Mental Health and Well-Being in AuDHD Inside the Emotional Landscape of Life with Both Autism and ADHD

This piece explores the unique mental health challenges and strengths of being both autistic and ADHD—and why self-understanding is the first step to well-being.

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I Never Use AI (And Other Lies Influencers Tell to Sell You a Hustle Dream) By J.K. Hamilton

“I never use AI.”

Cool story, bro.

This article exposes the performative purity of influencers cashing in on the hustle illusion—while secretly using the very tools they claim to outwork.

🧠 Let’s talk about the myth of doing it all alone… and the quiet truth behind the curtain.

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The Integrity Deficit: Why Neurodivergent Truth-Tellers Get Burned By J.K. Hamilton

Truth-telling isn’t always rewarded—especially when you’re neurodivergent.
In a world built on polite performance, honesty becomes rebellion.
This piece unpacks why those who speak up often get shut down—and why we do it anyway.

✊ Because silence was never our strong suit.
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Advocacy and Self-Advocacy: Reclaiming Voice in an AuDHD World By J.K.

In a world that talks over us, reclaiming our voice is revolutionary.

This article explores how AuDHD folks navigate both advocacy and self-advocacy—often in systems designed to silence us.

🔊 Being heard isn’t a luxury. It’s survival.

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Neurodivergence and the Resonance Reset: Repatterning a Broken World How sensitive minds are the first to feel what society refuses to face—and why that matters now more than ever.

Sensitive minds feel what the world ignores.

Neurodivergent people are emotional tuning forks—resonating with cracks in culture, systems, and relationships.

This isn’t dysfunction. It’s early warning.

🧠 Why repatterning begins with us.

The Sensory Mirror: Why Neurodivergent People Reflect the World’s Emotional Noise By J.K.

Neurodivergents don’t just notice the world’s noise—we feel it.

This article dives into why we reflect the chaos around us, and what to do about it.

#NeurodivergentTruths #SensoryOverload #EmpathyOnOverdrive

Not a Puzzle: Why Autistic People Don’t Need to Be Solved By J.K. Hamilton

Autistic people aren’t puzzles, problems, or projects—they’re people. This article unpacks why “solving” autism misses the point, erases identity, and harms actual humans. Instead of fixing what was never broken, let’s learn to listen, support, and respect autistic ways of being.

When Empathy Backfires: The Curse of Caring Too Much in a World That Doesn’t By J.K. Hamilton

Empathy is a gift—until it becomes a burden. This article explores the emotional toll of feeling deeply in a world that rewards detachment, and why those who care “too much” often carry the pain no one else will acknowledge.

The Quiet Tax: How Masking Drains Neurodivergent Lives By J.K. Hamilton

Masking isn’t just a habit—it’s a hidden tax on identity, energy, and well-being. For neurodivergent people, the cost of blending in often goes unnoticed by others but leaves deep scars within. This article exposes the emotional toll of pretending to be ‘normal’ just to survive.

The Myth of ‘Too Sensitive’: How the World Punishes Emotional Accuracy By J.K. Hamilton

They called you “too sensitive”—but what if you were just highly accurate? This article dismantles the myth that emotional depth is a flaw, revealing how neurodivergent perception is often mistaken for fragility when it’s really precision. Sensitivity isn’t weakness—it’s wisdom in high resolution.

Unmasking the Mask: The Hidden Costs of Social Camouflage in Neurodivergent Lives By J.K.

Masking may help neurodivergent people survive—but it comes at a steep cost. This article explores the hidden toll of social camouflage, from burnout to identity erosion, and calls for a world where authenticity is not punished but protected.

The Empathy Paradox: Why Neurodivergent People Feel So Much—and Are Believed So Little By J.K.

Neurodivergent people often feel the world more deeply—but are dismissed more easily. This piece explores the empathy paradox: how those with the most emotional sensitivity are often invalidated, gaslit, or misunderstood. It’s time to reframe the narrative and reclaim what empathy really means.

Clairsentient: What My Body Knew Before My Brain Did Exploring the Gut-Brain Connection, Trauma, and Intuitive Insight

My body spoke the truth long before I had the words.

This is the story of how trauma carved its messages into my nervous system — and how, through stillness and struggle, I began to listen. If you’ve ever felt something deeply without knowing why, this is for you.

Silenced by Psychiatry: A Neurodivergent Survivor’s Account Why informed honesty should never be punished — and how a flawed system almost erased me.

When honesty is pathologized, truth becomes dangerous.

This raw personal account explores how psychiatric systems silence neurodivergent voices under the guise of “help”—and what happens when survival means speaking anyway. A must-read for anyone questioning the cost of compliance.

Donald Gump enjoying intensely a chocolate pie that was baked extra special for him by none other than Miss Minny Jackson. Who sat by with a roll of toilet paper while Donald consumed or rather ravaged the pie like he hadn’t ate in months. Get in there Donald. Life is like a Minny pie. You just never know what you’re gonna get.

Donald Gump was spotted today in Forsyth Park sitting with Minny Jackson, enjoying a chocolate pie that Minny baked special for him. Donald who was too busy to comment was enjoying that pie a bit too much. Yes! Eat that pie Donald. Life is like a Minny pie. You just never know what you’re gonna get.

A solitary billionaire in a sleek bunker counts gold bars while looking out a reinforced window at the ruined world. The bold text reads: “When the last coral reef has bleached, and the crops fail under a sun too hot to bear, when the water turns thick with rot, and the air tastes of ash and regret— They’ll sit in bunkers lined with gold, counting zeros that no longer mean anything, gnawing on the bones of their own denial, wondering how they mistook wealth for wisdom. Because the Earth doesn’t care about profit margins. She doesn’t bend to stock portfolios or tax havens. She doesn’t negotiate with narcissists. And when the reckoning comes— it won’t be televised, it’ll be felt. By lungs gasping for clean air. By stomachs that know hunger. By billionaires who finally learn that money is flammable and you can’t eat a yacht. Let them hold their breath. They’ll need the practice.”

To the 1%,

When the last tree falls, will your money make a sound? This isn’t a warning—it’s a timestamp.
#ReadItAndWeep #NoMoreDenial #ClimateCrisis #ExtinctionEconomy #PlanetOverProfit #EatTheRich #YouCantEatMoney #RewildTheWorld #EnvironmentalJustice #BurnTheIllusion #1PercentWontSurviveTheStorm

The Myth of Functioning: Why Labels Like ‘High-Functioning’ Hurt Us All By J.K. Hamilton

‘High-functioning’ sounds like praise—but it hides pain, erases struggle, and pressures us to perform. This article dismantles the myth and reveals the damage behind the label.

The Quiet Crisis of Empathy Fatigue How Emotional Labor Burns Out Neurodivergent Healers—and Why Recovery Requires More Than Rest

When feeling deeply becomes exhausting, and compassion starts to crack under pressure—we’re not broken, we’re overwhelmed. This piece explores the silent burnout of the emotionally attuned, and why reclaiming your empathy starts with protecting it.

Our Failures Are Data: How Neurodivergent Trial-and-Error Builds Mastery By J.K.

We’re told failure means we’re broken. But what if it means we’re learning? For neurodivergent minds, every mistake is feedback — not a flaw. This article reframes failure as data, and learning as iteration.

They took me to Cherry Beach.

Two Toronto cops.
I told the truth. They didn’t believe me.

They pointed guns and said,
“Swim to the Leslie Spit or don’t come out.”

Two giant sturgeon circled me.
I swam. I survived.

I didn’t know I was autistic.

Now I write for the neurodivergent:
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The Price of Peace: Why Healing Sometimes Looks Like Isolation By J.K. Hamilton

Sometimes healing means disappearing. This piece explores why solitude isn’t failure—it’s recovery. For neurodivergent minds, peace often comes at the cost of connection, but it’s a cost worth paying.

Poverty Didn’t Make Me Autistic. But It Made Me Appear Invisible. A raw, personal essay reflecting on how the world treats autistic people differently based on class and perceived competence.

Being autistic was never the problem—being poor was. In a world that ignores both, I vanished. This piece explores how poverty amplifies neurodivergent struggles by erasing visibility, access, and dignity. We don’t just fall through cracks—we were never seen in the first place.