October is Polyennic Pride Month! Also recognised as ADHD Awareness Month, October is a time to celebrate polyennic minds and the many ways we can experience attention, energy, creativity and thought. Polyennic, meaning ‘many thoughts’, was coined by Raven Cochrane as a neuro-affirming, depathologised alternative to ‘ADHD’. Rather than viewing having many thoughts as inherently disordered or deficient, polyennic offers language that can honour cognitive difference while still

October is Polyennic Pride Month! Also recognised as ADHD Awareness Month, this is a time to celebrate the richness of polyennic minds,...

October is Polyennic Pride Month, also known as ADHD Awareness Month, is an opportunity to celebrate our ways of engaging with attention...

“Rejecting the double Ds of ‘deficit’ and ‘disorder’ in the label “ADHD” not only acknowledges the latest research discoveries regarding...

The label ADHD is widely criticised for being inaccurate, pathologising, and harmful. So, why do we continue to put up with it?...