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The Neurodivergent Lens Let's keep the conversation going around neurodivergence. If you've ever felt like the neurodivergent conversations you hear are skimming the surface of what you're actually living - this is the podcast we made for you. Hosted by Meryem Hassan, a dyslexic psychotherapist and founder of the neurodiversity consultancy Dyscourse, The Neurodivergent Lens is where the honest, layered conversations happen. The ones that name what you already know, celebrate what you already are, and open up what's still possible. The intensity of hyperfocus. The creativity of a mind that connects things others miss. The complicated art of masking, and the freedom of putting it down. Late diagnosis and the sense of finally coming home to yourself. The double empathy problem. Menopause and hormones colliding with a neurodivergent brain - and how to work with it, not against it. Meryem brings both clinical insight and lived experience to every conversation - and in Season 2, she's joined by expert guests from sport, media, medicine, therapy, and education, all bringing their own hard-won wisdom. Including a dedicated episode on neurodivergent menopause, because that story deserves more than a footnote. Whether you're neurodivergent yourself and ready to hear your experience reflected with honesty and respect, or you love someone who is and want to really understand them - you're in the right place. Beyond the labels. Beyond the surface. Real conversations about what it means to be wired differently - and to build a life that works with that, not around it. So let's keep the conversation going. Together. Hosted by Meryem Hassan
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Why can you do in two hours at 11:37pm the night before a deadline, what you couldn’t start for two weeks? If that question lands a little too close to home, this episode is for you. In this solo reflection, host Meryem Hassan explores ADHD and our relationship with time through two ancient Greek ideas: Chronos - clock time, the time we measure and organise our lives around - and Kairos - the opportune moment, the point at which something finally becomes possible enough to act on. It’s a stor...
She was diagnosed with ADHD at 16 in the US, thought she'd grown out of it, then diagnosed again in her 20s after the pandemic pulled the routine out from under her. In this episode, former GB tag rugby player and Tag Rugby World Cup bronze medallist Sophia Prout joins Meryem to talk about masking, rejection sensitivity dysphoria and the "shame spirals," and the striking contrast between the coaching environment that made her question everything and the one where she thrived and medalled. Sop...
"Think differently means at Holmewood we think differently - because we're neurodivergent." That's how one of her own students corrected Bridget Young on what her school's tagline actually means. Bridget is Head Teacher of The Holmewood School, London - a specialist school built around neurodivergent young people - and has spent more than 20 years in education. Host Meryem Hassan sits down with her for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from double empathy and masking in the classroom, th...
"I was told I just didn't read enough." For years, that was the explanation for Dr Rohini Sabherwal's struggles at school. It wasn't until she was 37 - mid-way through a Master's, and already a practising GP - that a chance moment revealed the truth: she's dyslexic. Host Meryem Hassan sits down with Rohini for a warm, honest and genuinely illuminating conversation about growing up undiagnosed, the "lightbulb moment" that changed everything, and what her dual perspective - as a dyslexic person...
⚠️ CONTENT NOTE: This episode includes open discussion of suicide, bereavement by suicide, mental health crisis and hospitalisation. Please take care while listening - pause or skip if you need to. Support resources are listed below. Jon Salmon kept his mental health experience hidden for almost 20 years - but the shame he felt about being dyslexic was even harder to talk about. Host Meryem Hassan is joined by award-winning Executive Producer Jon Salmon to explore dyslexia, late diagnosis, ma...
What does it take to build a football/soccer environment where neurodivergent players truly belong? In this episode, host Meryem Hassan is joined by Carly Williams - Head Coach of Brentford FC Women's First Team - to explore neurodivergence, elite coaching, player care, and the culture of belonging in the women's game of football/soccer. Carly shares her journey from grassroots to elite football, the pioneering player care role she built from scratch at Arsenal Women's Academy, and how coache...
Do neurodivergent people lack empathy? It's one of the most damaging and persistent myths out there - particularly about autistic individuals. In Episode 5, we challenge that assumption head on, exploring how empathy is genuinely felt and expressed across neurodivergence, and why so much of the misunderstanding comes down to difference, not deficit. What This Episode Covers In this episode, we discuss: The myth that autistic and neurodivergent people lack empathyWhy empathy is experienced and...
Does time feel like your enemy? In Episode 4, we explore why neurodivergent individuals experience time so differently - from time blindness and hyperfocus to punctuality, executive functioning, and the shame of never quite keeping up. We cover: time slippage vs time management, why the language matters, time blindness and the neurodivergent brain, hyperfocus and losing track of time completely, the shame around needing support with something "everyone else can do", practical strategies inclu...
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The Neurodivergent Lens Let's keep the conversation going around neurodivergence. If you've ever felt like the neurodivergent conversations you hear are skimming the surface of what you're actually living - this is the podcast we made for you. Hosted by Meryem Hassan, a dyslexic psychotherapist and founder of the neurodiversity consultancy Dyscourse, The Neurodivergent Lens is where the honest, layered conversations happen. The ones that name what you already know, celebrate what you already are, and open up what's still possible. The intensity of hyperfocus. The creativity of a mind that connects things others miss. The complicated art of masking, and the freedom of putting it down. Late diagnosis and the sense of finally coming home to yourself. The double empathy problem. Menopause and hormones colliding with a neurodivergent brain - and how to work with it, not against it. Meryem brings both clinical insight and lived experience to every conversation - and in Season 2, she's joined by expert guests from sport, media, medicine, therapy, and education, all bringing their own hard-won wisdom. Including a dedicated episode on neurodivergent menopause, because that story deserves more than a footnote. Whether you're neurodivergent yourself and ready to hear your experience reflected with honesty and respect, or you love someone who is and want to really understand them - you're in the right place. Beyond the labels. Beyond the surface. Real conversations about what it means to be wired differently - and to build a life that works with that, not around it. So let's keep the conversation going. Together. Hosted by Meryem Hassan
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