Relationships can be wonderful… and also wildly complicated when you’re neurodivergent.
Whether romantic, platonic, queerplatonic, family-ish or “I’m still not sure what this is” — connecting with people who get you (or at least genuinely try to) can feel tricky.

This month we’re exploring the messy, tender reality of ND relationships.

We’ll look at:
✨ Common challenges – communication mismatches, sensory overload, rejection sensitivity, masking, mixed signals, energy crashes, and the classic “I want connection but also please leave me alone”.
💛 What helps – clearer boundaries, softer expectations, honest conversations, different ways of showing care, and finding people who actually like your real brain.
🌿 Being yourself – the relief of dropping the mask, and the courage it sometimes takes.

Together we’ll ask:
💭 What gets in the way of connection for you?
💭 What kind of relationships feel safe and nourishing?
💭 What small changes could make connection easier?

All our groups are currently free to attend. Pay-what-you-can contributions are gratefully received here:
https://buy.stripe.com/aFaeVe15a6Rm1ot9RKcwg00

This helps cover room hire, refreshments and other essentials — and helps us keep ND BrainSpace going for as long as possible. Thank you :)

Please note: ND BrainSpace is a peer-support and community group. The conversations and information shared come from lived experience. They should not be taken as medical, therapeutic, or professional advice. If you need medical or professional support, we encourage you to seek guidance from qualified services.

ND Relationships — Lunchtime Online

Join us from your sofa, desk, bed, parked car, or blanket nest… wherever feels most comfortable.
Listen along with your camera off, or hop into the chat if you fancy sharing — totally your choice.

This month we’re diving into the beautifully messy world of ND relationships — romantic, platonic, somewhere-in-between, or still-figuring-it-out.

✨ Common challenges
Communication tangles, mixed signals, sensory overwhelm, masking, rejection sensitivity, and the classic “I want people… but not too close… but also don’t leave me” dance.

💛 What helps
Clearer boundaries, honest conversations, realistic expectations, and finding people who actually like your real brain.

🌿 Being yourself
The relief of dropping the mask — and the bravery it sometimes needs.

We’ll explore together:
💭 What makes connection tricky for you?
💭 What kind of relationships feel safe and nourishing?
💭 What small tweaks could make connection easier?

Register here to receive the joining info, and we’ll see you there!

All our groups are currently free to attend. Pay-what-you-can contributions are gratefully received here:
https://buy.stripe.com/aFaeVe15a6Rm1ot9RKcwg00

This helps cover room hire, refreshments and other essentials — and helps us keep ND BrainSpace going for as long as possible. Thank you :)

Please note: ND BrainSpace is a peer-support and community group. The conversations and information shared come from lived experience. They should not be taken as medical, therapeutic, or professional advice. If you need medical or professional support, we encourage you to seek guidance from qualified services.

Work can be a minefield when you’re neurodivergent — brilliant strengths sitting right alongside energy crashes, communication tangles, overwhelm, and the eternal mystery of “why can everyone else just… do that?”.

This month we’re diving into the real-world experience of ND folks in the workplace.

We’ll explore:
✨ Common challenges – sensory overload, organisation struggles, uneven motivation, burnout cycles, masking at work, tricky feedback, misunderstandings, and the chaotic dance of deadlines.
🛠️ Practical solutions – workplace adjustments, communication strategies, pacing at work, energy management, job-crafting, and figuring out what actually works for your brain.

Together we’ll ask:
💭 What makes work harder for you than it needs to be?
💭 What helps you thrive — or at least cope — in a work setting?
💭 What kind of career path feels more aligned with who you are?

All our groups are currently free to attend. Pay-what-you-can contributions are gratefully received here:
https://buy.stripe.com/aFaeVe15a6Rm1ot9RKcwg00

This helps cover room hire, refreshments and other essentials — and helps us keep ND BrainSpace going for as long as possible. Thank you :)

Please note: ND BrainSpace is a peer-support and community group. The conversations and information shared come from lived experience. They should not be taken as medical, therapeutic, or professional advice. If you need medical or professional support, we encourage you to seek guidance from qualified services.

Work, Careers & The ND Brain

Join us from your kitchen table, office chair, sofa cocoon or anywhere you can sneak a few minutes.
Camera off for quiet listening or on for chatting — whatever feels easiest on the day.

This month we’re unpacking the realities of work and careers when your brain doesn’t follow the standard settings.

✨ Common challenges
Sensory overload, organisation hurdles, uneven motivation, burnout cycles, tricky feedback, misunderstandings and the pressure to mask.

🌱 Strengths & superpowers
Creativity, deep-focus bursts, problem-solving, empathy, innovative thinking — the brilliant stuff that often gets overlooked.

🛠️ Practical strategies
Workplace adjustments, communication ideas, pacing, energy management, and shaping roles to suit how you actually function.

We’ll explore together:
💭 What makes work harder than it needs to be?
💭 What helps you show up as your real self?
💭 What kind of work life feels more aligned with you?

Register here to receive the joining info, and we’ll see you there!

All our groups are currently free to attend. Pay-what-you-can contributions are gratefully received here:
https://buy.stripe.com/aFaeVe15a6Rm1ot9RKcwg00

This helps cover room hire, refreshments and other essentials — and helps us keep ND BrainSpace going for as long as possible. Thank you :)

Please note: ND BrainSpace is a peer-support and community group. The conversations and information shared come from lived experience. They should not be taken as medical, therapeutic, or professional advice. If you need medical or professional support, we encourage you to seek guidance from qualified services.

Boundaries & Self-Care

Boundaries and self-care can feel especially complicated when you’re neurodivergent — knowing where your limits are, how to communicate them, and how to look after yourself without burning out or people-pleasing your way into exhaustion.

This month we’re focusing on the real, lived experience of boundaries and self-care for ND adults.

We’ll explore:
✨ Common challenges — saying yes when you mean no, masking at your own expense, sensory overload, energy depletion, guilt, people-pleasing, blurred boundaries, and not noticing you’re overwhelmed until it’s too late.
🛠️ What actually helps — recognising your limits, pacing, realistic self-care (not the Instagram kind), communicating boundaries, reducing burnout cycles, and finding ways to protect your energy that work for your brain.

Together we’ll ask:
💭 Where do your boundaries get stretched or ignored?
💭 What drains you — and what helps you recover?
💭 What might self-care look like if it was practical, not performative?

All our groups are currently free to attend. Pay-what-you-can contributions are gratefully received here:
https://buy.stripe.com/aFaeVe15a6Rm1ot9RKcwg00

This helps cover room hire, refreshments and other essentials — and helps us keep ND BrainSpace going for as long as possible. Thank you :)

Please note: ND BrainSpace is a peer-support and community group. The conversations and information shared come from lived experience. They should not be taken as medical, therapeutic, or professional advice. If you need medical or professional support, we encourage you to seek guidance from qualified services.

🌿 Boundaries & Self-Care — Lunchtime Online

Join us from your desk, sofa, bed, parked car or wherever you can grab a bit of breathing space.
Camera off for quiet listening or on for chatting — whatever feels easiest on the day.

This month we’re exploring boundaries and self-care for neurodivergent adults — the real stuff, not the “just take a bubble bath” version.

✨ Common challenges
Saying yes when you mean no, people-pleasing, masking at your own expense, sensory overload, guilt, blurred boundaries, and realising you’re burnt out after it’s already happened.

🌱 What helps
Noticing your limits sooner, pacing, realistic self-care, clearer boundaries, recovering energy, and letting go of the idea that self-care has to look a certain way.

🛠️ Practical ideas
Ways to protect your energy, communicate boundaries (without over-explaining), reduce burnout cycles, and figure out what looking after yourself actually looks like for you.

We’ll explore together:
💭 Where do your boundaries tend to slip?
💭 What drains you — and what helps you recover?
💭 What might self-care look like if it was practical, not performative?

Register here to receive the joining info, and we’ll see you there!

All our groups are currently free to attend. Pay-what-you-can contributions are gratefully received here:
https://buy.stripe.com/aFaeVe15a6Rm1ot9RKcwg00

This helps cover room hire, refreshments and other essentials — and helps us keep ND BrainSpace going for as long as possible. Thank you :)

Please note: ND BrainSpace is a peer-support and community group. The conversations and information shared come from lived experience. They should not be taken as medical, therapeutic, or professional advice. If you need medical or professional support, we encourage you to seek guidance from qualified services.

Identity & Masking

Figuring out who you are — and how much of yourself you show — can be complicated when you’re neurodivergent. Masking can help you get through work, relationships or everyday life, but it can also be exhausting, confusing, and disconnecting over time.

This session explores identity and masking for neurodivergent adults, drawing on lived experience rather than labels or expectations.

We’ll explore

✨ Common experiences
Masking and unmasking, people-pleasing, imposter syndrome, late identification, identity shifts, internalised expectations, and the feeling of not quite fitting anywhere.

🛠️ What can help
Noticing when you’re masking, understanding why you do it, experimenting with safer ways to be yourself, and making sense of who you are underneath the performance.

Together we’ll ask

💭 When and where do you mask most?
💭 What parts of yourself feel hardest to show?
💭 What might it look like to feel more at ease in your own skin?

All our groups are currently free to attend. Pay-what-you-can contributions are gratefully received here:
https://buy.stripe.com/aFaeVe15a6Rm1ot9RKcwg00

This helps cover room hire, refreshments and other essentials — and helps us keep ND BrainSpace going for as long as possible. Thank you :)

Please note: ND BrainSpace is a peer-support and community group. The conversations and information shared come from lived experience. They should not be taken as medical, therapeutic, or professional advice. If you need medical or professional support, we encourage you to seek guidance from qualified services.

Identity & Masking — Lunchtime Online

Join us from wherever you are — desk, sofa, bed, or a quiet corner you’ve claimed for the hour.
Camera off for listening or on for chatting — whatever works best for you on the day.

Masking can be part of everyday life for neurodivergent people — at work, in relationships, and out in the world. It can help us get by, but it can also be tiring, confusing, and make it hard to know who we really are underneath it all.

This session explores identity and masking for neurodivergent adults, grounded in lived experience rather than expectations or labels.

We’ll explore

✨ Common experiences
Masking and unmasking, people-pleasing, imposter syndrome, late identification, identity shifts, and the sense of not quite fitting anywhere.

🛠️ What can help
Noticing when you’re masking, understanding why, experimenting with safer ways to be yourself, and making sense of your identity over time.

We’ll reflect together

💭 When do you notice yourself masking most?
💭 What parts of yourself feel easiest — or hardest — to show?
💭 What might it look like to feel more at ease as yourself?

Register here to receive the joining info, and we’ll see you there!

All our groups are currently free to attend. Pay-what-you-can contributions are gratefully received here:
https://buy.stripe.com/aFaeVe15a6Rm1ot9RKcwg00

This helps cover room hire, refreshments and other essentials — and helps us keep ND BrainSpace going for as long as possible. Thank you :)

Please note: ND BrainSpace is a peer-support and community group. The conversations and information shared come from lived experience. They should not be taken as medical, therapeutic, or professional advice. If you need medical or professional support, we encourage you to seek guidance from qualified services.