Welcome, soft anarchist. This is an instruction booklet for crochet—but also for regulation.

Inside you’ll find the basics (chains, slip stitches, single crochet, double crochet), plus a gentle reminder that you’re allowed to learn like a human: slowly, unevenly, and with as many do-overs as you need. If you lose your place, if your tension is rogue, if you unravel the whole thing and start again… good. That’s part of the process.

Crochet will wait for you.

ADHD isn’t a defect in disguise—it’s a salience-tuned neurology that orients to what feels meaningful now. This plain-language, research-layered piece maps sensory gating, dopamine pathways, salience hubs, DMN switching, timing loops, and inhibition to show how “symptoms” are variations that clash with clock-time systems. If you want context and a new way to see the research, start here.

The holidays are often treated like they’re universally joyful. For many neurodivergent people, they’re not. This post explores why the season can be neurologically demanding — and why doing it differently isn’t failure.

In this zine I discuss why I , as a neuro-affirming therapist, keep “ADHD” as a label and reclaim it: not to uphold pathology, but to turn the loaded acronym into language that offers context, connection, and practical support.

If that resonates, start here.

The goal of this zine is to redefine ADHD and strip away the judgmental social narrative that clings to it in mainstream literature. Instead of deficit and disorder, we offer a salience-tuned lens: attention, emotion, and movement organized around what’s meaningful now. It’s a map for understanding—without moralizing—so ADHDers, families, and practitioners can choose supports that honour nervous systems, not punish them.

Looking for the receipts?

Here are the sources for “attention rebels”.

**Heads up: Most of these are written through a pathologizing lens.

They describe ADHD in deficit language, frame neurodivergence as disorder, or measure us against conformity.

I cite them here not because I agree — but because these are the “official” texts we’re forced to decipher and reimagine. Science isn’t bad — but it is biased and judgmental. My work is about reading between the lines, pulling out what’s useful, and flipping the rest on its head.