She was still in her UK tracksuit when we landed in Bali. I'd told her to change on the plane. She didn't. The heat hit us like a wall the second we stepped off and I thought — yeah. That's about right. Nothing about this was going to go smoothly. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗡𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗗 𝗨𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗘 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗗 Just before we got to passport control, I realised I hadn't done Lily's entrance forms. In all the chaos of leaving — the packing, the goodbyes, the absolute state of the last few weeks — I'd forgotten something completely basic. So there we were, standing in a queue at Denpasar airport, me on my phone frantically filling in forms so we could actually enter the country we'd just flown twelve hours to get to. And then the passport control officer looked at Lily's 30-day visa, looked at my two-year visa, and said — why has she only got 30 days if you've got two years? I could feel the panic rising. Shit. Are they going to turn us away? Have I done all of this and we're not even going to get through the door? Every worst case scenario hit me at once — and if you've got an AuDHD brain, you'll know that is not a small number of worst case scenarios. He let us through with a big smile. 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗟𝗜𝗟𝗬'𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗙𝗘𝗟𝗟 𝗔𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 We got to baggage collection and her suitcase had burst open on the plane. It was wrapped in a clear bag. The staff were lovely about it — came straight over, asked us to check everything, said they'd file a missing items report if needed. Luckily nothing was gone. But we were two big suitcases, two backpacks, two handbags, both sweating, Lily absolutely roasting in that tracksuit, and I'm thinking — we haven't even left the airport yet. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗗𝗘 𝗜𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 Our driver was a friend of our usual driver — lovely, really lovely. And the drive from Denpasar to Ubud, I just kept looking out the window. The statues. The greenery. The people on motorbikes carrying things you genuinely cannot believe are on a motorbike. It was surreal. Beautiful. Like nothing I'd ever seen in real life before, only in pictures I'd been staring at for fifteen years.

And I didn’t expect it to hit the way it has. Because the more I created these, the more I realised something… It’s not that people don’t careIt’s that people don’t understand So many things get labelled as “bad behaviour” “lazy” “too much” “overreacting” etc When actually… that’s not what’s going on at all So I created the A–Z of Neurodiversity Not a boring glossaryNot clinical definitionsNot stuff you read, listen to and forget But short, real-life videos, that explain what this actually looks like day to day… in real homes… with real kids And now Round 1 is complete: A – AuDHD B – Brain Fog C – Central Auditory Processing Disorder D – Dyslexia E – Emotional Dysregulation F – Focus Paralysis G – Global Developmental Delay H – Hyperfocus I – Interoception J – Justice Sensitivity K – Kinetic Seeking L – Low Demand Parenting M – Masking N – Nervous System O – Overwhelm P – PDA Q – Quirky Traits R – RSD S – Sensory Processing T – Tics U – Unmasking V – Vagus Nerve W – Window of Tolerance X – X-linked Conditions Y – Yelling Z – Zoning Out And the biggest thing I keep hearing is… “Ohhh… that makes sense now” Which is exactly the point You can watch these on YouTube, TikTok, and my socials BUT… Inside Mums Embracing Neurodiversity this is where we actually talk about it This is where you can say “that’s my child”“that’s me”“I thought it was just us” No judgement. No fixing. No pretending Just real conversations with people who get it If you’ve seen any of the A–Z videos… Which one hit you the most? And if you haven’t yet… Pick oneStart there You don’t need to understand everything, you just need one thing to click