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Reform are surging. The council election results are in and across the UK, a movement built on division, fear, and the reduction of complex human experience to simple enemies is gaining ground. I’ve been sitting with that. And I want to talk about why, for those of us with ADHD and neurodivergent minds, this particular…
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On agency, dignity, and systems that get in their own way. Last week I had a sore throat. Not a mystery. Not a complex clinical puzzle. A sore throat, some pain, and a reasonable concern that it might be infected. I went to my local pharmacy. I have 42 years of experience living in my…
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I didn’t know I had ADHD until I was 42. But looking back, music always knew. From as early as I can remember, music was the one place my brain settled. Not calmed down. Not switched off. Settled. Fully in. Every layer, every detail, every decision someone made in a studio or on a stage.…
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I’ve got a lot of open tabs in my head just now. Some of it is about what comes next for me. Some of it is about the last few years. Some of it is just noticing how things actually work day to day in charities. One thing I keep coming back to: Most of…
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I often sit in meetings thinking: This could be fixed in two weeks. Instead, we’ll talk about it for two years. Not because it’s complex. Not because it’s unaffordable. But because the system is slow, layered, cautious — and culturally comfortable with “messy and clunky.” I can see the transformation clearly: It isn’t radical- it…
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This is the first edition of Open Tabs, a blog about leading in the third sector with ADHD. The blog is new. So is my diagnosis. At 42, I was diagnosed with ADHD — after more than 20 years working in social care and the third sector, and over a decade in senior and executive…