I believe AuDHD/PDA/gifted/ND folks deserve to live well NOW, not when we've figured everything out. Public posts here (sign up available to receive the rest)
BloomCon Digital Speakers Series (you can hear my presentation)
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Live events for the BloomCon26 Speaker Series start tonight, and there are on-demand talks (including mine) available now. BloomCon is a gifted neurodivergence conference in its second year, which I attended live earlier this month. My title was "Paradox Incarnate: Giftedness, CPTSD, ADHD, and Autism," - the order in which I was diagnosed 😉 It's about how those experiences pull against each other, and especially the gifted-CPTSD axis (since you've heard me talk about the autism-ADHD one plenty!) Two things I wanted to share from the experience:
And if you've never identified with the word "gifted," but still feel like a freakin weirdo for reasons that AuDHD doesn't fully explain, here are all my episodes on the topic that may cover aspects you've never heard discussed. Also there are many facets of giftedness that aren't captured by traditional tests. & again here's the BloomCon Speaker Series - enjoy! Mattia p.s. Dr Patty Gently who organized the event spends a lot of her own money to make things accessible (including paying to have her own academic research public). If you have a few dollars to donate toward the pay-what-you-can option, it supports this ongoing work!
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Hi, I'm Mattia Maurée (they/them)
I believe AuDHD/PDA/gifted/ND folks deserve to live well NOW, not when we've figured everything out. Public posts here (sign up available to receive the rest)
Occasionally I end up working until 7 pm. But when I’m done working, I get to disconnect and feel done-done. The urgent feeling to keep going is rare now. Instead of being my normal, I notice stress is unusually high if I’m having trouble powering down. Most nights, I’m not scripting conversations as I fall asleep. I get to stop. It’s an ordinary thing, in theory. But I've experienced more of this feeling in 2026 than in the rest of my life put together. The word that keeps coming to mind is...
Clients sometimes tell me they “haven’t been doing anything,” and then when we dig into it, it turns out they have been working incredibly hard. But a lot of that effort is invisible. Invisible labor can look like Emotionally regulating so you can make a phone call Being there for a friend having a hard time, while trying to soothe the part of you feeling like you’re not doing a good job in the conversation Having to re-wash the laundry three times because you keep forgetting about it while...
Sometimes I lie in bed running through everything I need to do, trying to get ahead of my workload without actually doing any of it. Often I start scripting possible future podcast episodes. Which, as you may know, is not the best way to fall asleep. I’m laying there experiencing one of the biggest tensions in my life: care for the meatsuit vs. captivating ideas to bring into the world. My brain doesn’t really want to rest. It wants to do awesome stuff right now!! But I also need to do...