Essays on Purpose™
Some ideas don’t fit into a social media post.
These essays explore neurodivergence, expressive arts, identity, executive functioning, creativity, parenting, and belonging through a neuroqueer lens. Inspired by my work as a therapist and my life as a parent, they’re written for anyone curious about different ways of understanding ourselves, one another, and the communities we build together.
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When Meaning Arrives Sideways
Not every conversation follows a straight line. This essay explores metaphor, tangents, creativity, and why many neurodivergent minds make meaning differently.
Neuroqueering Executive Functioning
What if executive functioning isn’t just an individual ability - but something communities have always shared? A different way of thinking about support, accommodation, and belonging.
This collection is growing.
I write as questions emerge, conversations deepen, and new ways of understanding take shape.
This collection will grow alongside Different On Purpose.
Parenting on Purpose™
The following excerpts are adapted chapters from my forthcoming book Executive Functioning is a Team Sport. They explore parenting, neurodivergence, gender diversity, and the ways families learn to carry one another through impossible seasons.
Parenting in the Upside Down
What happens when survival becomes so familiar it starts to feel like home? Through the lens of Stranger Things, this chapter explores parenting, hypervigilance, grief, and the quiet exhaustion of trying to raise children while your own nervous system is still listening for monsters.
Plot Twist: I’m Different On Purpose
A story about neuroqueerness, identity, chosen family, and the moment an entire life suddenly makes sense. Sometimes the plot twist isn’t becoming someone different. It’s finally understanding who you’ve been all along.
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