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ADHD and nature writer, exploring neurodiversity with curiosity and humour, investigating wellness, advocating for understanding and positivity, getting lost a lot while walking the wilds of Wales...

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bewilderbrain @bewilderbrain.bsky.social · Jul 24
People with ADHD need to be reminded of their magnificence, just the way they are...

These are the reasons to love and celebrate ADHD brains.

This is the reminder you must have to bounce you off rock bottom. Or off your own bottom...

#ADHD
#AudHD
#Neurodiveristy

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Fantastic beasts – and where they are hiding – 5 reasons to seek out and celebrate ADHD brains …
People with ADHD need to be reminded of their magnificence, just the way they are… This is a declaration. A proclamation of unique brilliance, unrivalled spirit and resilience. These are the …
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A short muse on the power of brief moments...

#mindfulness #MentalHealth #nature #BrainBoost #adhd #neurodiversity
The 10 second brain spa- Micro mindfulness to calm and fuel the brain…
There are tiny moments we can feast on, if we let them in. To Fortify. To Edify. To penetrate the mists of everyday and offer sweet and fleeting haven to our brains...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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The global network of weird communication, survival mode and wonder…

#ADHD #AuDHD #Neurodiversity #ADHDintuition #NeurodiverseIntuition
ADHD intuition – The world’s secret communication force – and why we should listen to it…
Across the airwaves, in living rooms, cafes, offices, schoolyards throughout the land, tiny networks of sparking ADHD intuition are leaping synaptically from one brain to another, sending out tendrils of communication, recognition and energy. If the power of such a network could be harnessed, we would be the equivalent of a global wind farm.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Happy Halloween to all.... a spooky Halloween walk into a dusk woodland...with a possibly haunted mushroom...

#Walking #WalkingDiary #HalloweenWalks #Autumn #Fall #SpookyForest #DuskWoods

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Walking Diaries*Autumn*A spooky dusk walk into the Wild Wood
It is T-minus 90 minutes till sundown. The impending dusk is creeping up the mountain like an embarrassed ghost. Strange rustles in the undergrowth could be furry creatures preparing for bed, or th…
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October 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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A spooky Halloween walk into dusk woodland…

#halloween #HalloweenWalks #WalkingDiary #AutumnWalks #FallWalks #SpookyForest #DuskWoods
Walking Diaries*Autumn*A spooky dusk walk into the Wild Wood
It is T-minus 90 minutes till sundown. The impending dusk is creeping up the mountain like an embarrassed ghost. Strange rustles in the undergrowth could be furry creatures preparing for bed, or they could be dark ghouls with the stolen souls of dead mushrooms.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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A helpful survival guide for neurodivergent brains...

#ADHD #AuDHD #Neurodiversity #Neurotypicals #SpottingNeurotypicals #NeurodivergentTraits
How to spot Neurotypicals in the wild – Part One: Physical Oddities
It is not clear how the neurotypical is able to navigate fully without the useful rebound effects of doorways and table corners, but it must lead them to feel very disorientated to keep missing things wherever they go… Their dance function appears to be largely broken, or working intermittently, and is only triggered to produce small and infrequent bouts of dancing at occasions such as family weddings.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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An accidentally magnificent walk into a quintessential British Autumn landscape...

#WalkingDiary #walking #autumn #AutumnMist #AutumnWalks #fall #FallColours #nature #WalkingWales
Walking Diaries*Autumn*Season of mists and fellow bootiness…
On a thickly foggy October morning, the high mountaintops beckoned me. The low autumn sun shimmered through a veiled sky, gilding the russet leaves in gold, and forming magical landscapes that emerged and evolved from the mist...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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A short uplifting walk on a calming and colourful canal side…

#walking #WalkingDiary #autumn #fall #AutumnWalks #WalkingWales #NatureTherapy #birds #ForestFarm @forestfarmphotography
Walking Diaries *Autumn* Cocooning calm on the canal-side…
Is there anything more tranquil than the gentle plop of a duck into the still waters of a canal? Soft autumn colours, tranquil reflections and comical birds in a gentle leaf-dusted ramble...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Today’s walk finds a soft autumn magic under grey skies…

#walking #WalkingDiary #Autumn #AutumnWalks #Fall #WalkingWales #WelshValleys #NatureTherapy
Walking Diaries*Autumn*The secrets of the mountain..
A journey into a cloaked landscape. Skies overcast with the palest of greys have rendered a flat, still light, hiding the depth and contrast of the hills. It is like nature, in the midst of its magnificent tumble into autumn, has chosen to have a little snooze - to rest a moment from the bustle of the season - retreating under the grey anonymity of the stratus clouds.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Random reasons to love life this Friday:

When cats say something in a funny meow.
Slippers.
A surprise whole bit of chocolate where there should be wafer in an unnamed bar.
Leaves floating by windows like magical portents.
Badgers. No further explanation needed.
#Friday #RandomHappy #LoveLife
October 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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A walk into a thriving autumn forest over the bones of past industry…

#WalkingDiary #walking #nature #fall #AutumnForest #WelshValleys #MiningHistory #WalkingWales
Walking Diaries*Autumn* Forest life from the coal dust…
Today's walk heads into the land of deep evergreens grown upon the spoil of our mining past. A mountain whose landscape has changed and evolved through the mists of time...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Happy 1st of October to all 🍁🍂 May the true glory of autumn commence...
October 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Anyone have any texts they need to reply to? From… I dunno, yesterday? Last week? Approximately four years ago?? It should be on the criteria…

We do care. We really do.

#ADHD #AuDHD #neurodiversity #communication #ADHDCommunication

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Don’t leave me hanging on the telephone… 5 reasons why communication with ADHD is so hard…and why we still love and need our friends…
ADHD friends – are you used to not hearing from your friend for months and then receiving War and Peace in a text message? – This is why. I just want the world, the day, the hour, to go…
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September 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Are these even real? Amazing. Crazy mushroom autumn.

#autumn
#mushrooms
#mushroomseason
#autumncolours
September 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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A rant and battle cry against one of our most insidious foes…

#MentalHealth #depression #adhd #audHD #neurodiversity #mood #FightingDepression

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Kind of blue – but not defeated. Duelling the dead-eyed dullard of depression…
People call it the black dog. I think of depression more as a haunted Victorian governess who has been repeatedly washed on an old sock cycle.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Today’s walk is a celebration of autumn sunlight as the longer nights begin their reign…
#walking
#WalkingDiaries
#equinox
#autumn
#fall
#AutumnLight
#FallLight
#AutumnTrees
#SeasonChange
#WalkingWales
#Toadstools

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Walking Diaries*Autumn* The magical light of Equinox
The night has fought at last to equal length, and the shadows of the year are creeping up behind the trees. Despite this, the morning light of the low autumn sun is bright – iridescent &#8211…
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September 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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That is all. Happy Friday...🐄🍃🍂
September 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Today’s walk celebrates early autumn and the joys of acorn wanging…
#WalkingDiaries #Autumn #Fall #Nature #AutumnWalks #AutumnColour #Acorns #WalkingWales @Woodlarking
Walking Diaries*Autumn*The bracken turns to bronze…
The mountain landscape, gilded in low autumn sun, is at the very cusp of change. Verdant green oaks spill their prolific bounty to the ground below, mingling with the first russet leaf-drop. On the open hillside above, the bright green ferns, bejewelled with raindrops, sit aside their newly bronzed companions. The hazy light softens the edges of the mountain path, beckoning me into the autumn magic...
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September 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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For anyone else out there struggling with Monday today...

Energy and moods can be non-linear.

Stop looking for a reason. Be kind to yourself
#ADHD
#MondayMorning
#ADHDenergy
#Neurodiversity
#Mood

The Power of pacing - How to manage energy when you have ADHD...
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The Power of pacing – How to manage energy when you have ADHD…
If the average person’s brain is a car with a 2 litre engine, plenty of reserve power, and appropriate gears for hills, an ADHD brain is trying to drive all the same routes with a 3 wheeler (…
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September 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Whatever your autumn weather today -Go for a walk. Go outside. It might gently change your life.

The day I decided that nature spotting would help my brain, I totted up a grand total of two bats and a squirrel.

#walking
#nature
#WalkingDiary
#ADHD
#neurodiversity

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Two bats and a squirrel – The birth of an ADHD walking diary
…there is something different here. It doesn’t feel ground-breaking, it doesn’t feel like it will change my life. But it’s a gentle, tangible tonic. It’s a slower stream of oxygen through oth…
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September 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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It's official. Happy Friday 🍂🍁🍂

#autumn #fall #autumnleaves
#autumncolours
September 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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A short walk in quest of autumn life and colour as the days darken…

#walking
#autumn
#nature
#WalkingDiary
#fall
#WalkingWales
Walking Diaries *Autumn*The first whispers on the wind…
Enter that liminal time where summer flowers are fading, but autumn colours have not yet ripened. It prompts us to rove the landscape for bright splashes, hints of magic, and bold defiers of the lengthening night...
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September 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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For anyone else in the neurodiversiverse who has felt emotional today for "no reason" and probably then felt embarrassed or generally like a big pile of pants afterwards..

STOP APOLOGISING.

We are NOT broken.

#adhd
#AuDHD
#autism
#neurodiversity
#emotions

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Iceberg! Dead ahead! – Surviving the scary ocean of ADHD and neurodiverse emotions…
We are all of the emotions, or we are none. We are on top of the world, and our euphoria is scary to witness, or we are the pits of despair, and you should probably leave the room…
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September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Like a wild-eyed autumn huntress, I crouch...ready to take the unsuspecting furniture by surprise...

#ADHD
#AuDHD
#Furniture
#Home
#SeasonChange
Pivot! Season change, ADHD, and the dark compulsion to move the furniture around…
That season change feeling… the sense of something indefinable, bigger, beyond our reach, shifting its mystical bottom. The earth moves on its axis and therefore the sofa must follow… in a slow-motion revolution to the dark side of the room...
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September 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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It was just me and that blackbird on the grey dawn street, and it looked straight at me and started to sing again. I can't completely put into words the strange little swell of feeling that filtered through me... like a window being opened for a moment and the light coming in...
Birds flying high…you know how I feel? Like a Crested Tit Warbler. 5 reasons why anyone and everyone should be bird-watching for mood and mental health…
It was just me and that blackbird on the grey dawn street, and it looked straight at me and started to sing again. I can't completely put into words the strange little swell of feeling that filtered through me... like a window being opened for a moment and the light coming in...
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August 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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There is no walk quite like a Cornish cliff top. And today's weather has furnished us with that most quintessential of Celtic weather systems, a blowy mizzler. ..
#walking
#cornwall
#coastpath
#birds
Walking Diary *Summer* Cliffs, Coves and Choughs in wildest Cornwall
There is no walk quite like a Cornish cliff top. And today's weather has furnished us with that most quintessential of Celtic weather systems, a blowy mizzler. ..
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August 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM