What if some of the things you've always attributed to trauma were also connected to the way your brain is wired?
In this episode of The Kelly Healing Project, I sit down with Ellie “AuDHD” Capstick for an open and powerful conversation about autism, ADHD, trauma, masking, self-worth, and discovering her neurodivergence later in life.
Ellie shares how receiving her diagnosis helped her begin making sense of experiences she had struggled to understand for years. We talk about the overlap between trauma and neurodivergence, the exhaustion of masking, unhealthy relationship patterns, nervous system regulation, parenting neurodivergent children, and learning to advocate for what you actually need.
We also explore the emotional side of finally understanding yourself—the grief for the person you might have been with the right support, but also the freedom that can come from realizing you don't have to keep forcing yourself to fit into expectations that were never right for you.
This conversation is ultimately about self-understanding, self-acceptance, and reclaiming the parts of yourself you may have spent years believing were “too much” or somehow wrong.
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🌐 AuDHD and Then Some
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