Why Peer Support Is So Important For Neurodivergent Adults

I’ve amassed a library of neurodivergence-related content in my head since my journey of discovery began in earnest about three years ago. Writing is my go-to method of processing it. I can’t remember much of said content coming from anyone who wasn’t neurodivergent. It was my fellow NDs who gave me my first ‘aha’ moments in Facebook groups as I saw the minutiae of social interaction and sensory experience articulated with a precision I never imagined possible. There’s an instant sense of belonging from finding people who get you or at least hold space to accept your experience as valid. You exhale deeply as you begin to let go of decades of being misunderstood and feeling on the outer. My sense of an online community deepened when I started writing for Medium. I was compelled by an overwhelming need to process and share what was going on for me after the diagnosis and at each point on the journey that followed. The community of autistic writers on Medium was still small enough that I recall having an idea for a piece about my favourite autistic writers on Medium. <a href="https://jael999.medium.com/why-peer-support-is-so-important-for-neurodivergent-adults-3054fd34f776">Visit Now</a>