Multo quam ferrum lingua atrocior ferit. The tongue wounds far more than the sword. This series opened with five Italian words. It closes with six Latin ones, because the Romans had already understood: words hurt more than blades. Two thousand years later, we still repeat it. It's true
I grew up in a beautiful family. I'm the second of three - two brothers, one older, one younger. The kind of family that has always been there, in the good chapters of life and in the terrible ones. And they are the people I pushed away. When depression
Imagine you've planned a trip. An important one - the kind you dream about for a lifetime, and it's finally happening. You've thought of everything: the stops, the connections, the places to see, the places to eat. For months, you've poured every free
We live in a time when neurodivergence is having its moment. More and more well-known people are speaking openly about theirs - Florence Welch, the voice of Florence + The Machine, and gymnast Simone Biles, to name two you might not have heard about yet. And many of them describe it
"We've always done it this way." Five words in my language - si è sempre fatto così. Six in English. Either way, they work fast, they work quietly, and they work every single time. If you want to switch off a neurodivergent brain, this is where you
I never thought I would write these words. Certainly not one month after my last post. A month ago, I packed my bags and took my kingdom on holiday - the whole of it. The colorful Bird, the watchful Monster, the grey Cloud, the Burnt-Out Candle. Loud, uncomfortable, exhausting guests,
My children sometimes look at me with their big, clear eyes and notice something the adults around me never see. They don't have the words for it. They don't need the clinical names we grown-ups use. But they feel the weather change in the room
Can we please stop calling ADHD a superpower? In recent years, social media and corporate diversity campaigns have undergone a massive shift in how they talk about neurodivergence. We went from completely pathologizing mental variations to heavily romanticizing them. Today, the online narrative is saturated with toxic positivity: ADHD is
Modern corporate systems are built on a dangerous, unquestioned myth: that human productivity should look like a straight, unyielding line. From the 9-to-5 schedule to key performance indicators (KPIs), workplace structures are meticulously calibrated around a neurotypical standard of artificial consistency. We are expected to show up every
Some people don't believe illness is an illness. Then some people believe it's a personal illness. Even though the second group is already a little more aware, they still have a flawed, or at least partial, perspective. Depression is not an individual illness. It's
There is a specific side of parenthood that is carefully airbrushed out of parenting books and social media feeds. It is the absolute, crushing exhaustion of managing a family’s routine when your own brain lacks the chemical foundation to manage itself. When you live with ADHD, chronic depression, or
Disclaimer: This post was not planned. It was not drafted in a moment of calm reflection or scheduled for publication. It is being written right now out of absolute, visceral necessity - because the fear inside me is too heavy to hold quietly, and I need to put it somewhere outside