Understanding a child’s ADHD should change the support we give, not the high expectations we hold. Start with the need, not the label, with what the official guidance says.

The DfE's school belonging research and the Fonagy review, read side by side: why so many neurodivergent children are slipping through, and what schools can do about it.

Channel 4's The Great ADHD Myth?, Panorama and Uta Frith's comments on autism: who gets to set the headline, and who carries the consequences.

I wrote a referral letter for an adult autism assessment, then stopped to ask what a second diagnosis would actually change.

If 99% of people with ADHD have it, is it still dysphoria? What a poll of my readers suggests about rejection sensitivity.

Every July, parents of neurodivergent children open a report that could be about anyone. What a genuinely helpful one looks like instead.

I have ADHD and I believe the experience behind RSD is real. I no longer believe the label can carry the weight we're putting on it.

Your diagnosis was the beginning of the story. Some people are making a lot of money keeping you on that first page.

If a student is bright, articulate and just about keeping up, most schools will leave them alone. That may be the most costly mistake we make.

I was a serving headteacher with fifty LinkedIn followers and a diagnosis I'd kept to myself. What I owed children, families, the profession and myself.

Somewhere between a three-year NHS waiting list and a 60-second social media reel, something is going wrong. What people at each stage of the journey actually need.

"Enlightened centrist." "Empty." "Void of any merit." On polarised debate, Uta Frith, and why we need to keep having the hard conversations.

Why understanding often matters as much as formal accommodations: the adjustment that matters most at work is simply not being misunderstood.

The DfE-commissioned report isn't legislation, but it sets out how education could be designed differently, with support that doesn't depend on diagnosis.

What the evidence says about extra time, rest breaks and separate rooms for students with ADHD, how other countries decide, and how families and schools can work together.

The Times called people seeking ADHD treatment "sharp-elbowed". The same paper defends parents who pay for private schools. Only the language changes.

The Curriculum and Assessment Review gives spoken language new weight. Why that matters for students with ADHD, and what learning French taught me about motivation.