This started the way a lot of my thoughts do — from something small that then refused to stay small. I have combined ADHD, though I lean more inattentive, and I also live with misophonia, so I know that particular moment when ordinary background noise suddenly stops feeling ordinary. I was out running, my music cut out, and almost instantly everything around me felt far louder than it had any right to — not dramatic, just that immediate internal shift where sound stops being background and starts landing directly inside your nervous system. Which took me straight into something else I keep circling. How often we still talk about ADHD and associated features as though everything sits neatly in separate boxes, when lived experience rarely feels that neat. Because once you really start looking, it is hard not to notice how much seems to gather around the same core wiring over time: sensory overload, masking, rejection sensitivity, intrusive thinking, people pleasing, hyper-awareness, shame responses, all the quieter internal adaptations people often carry for years before they even realise they are there. And then I found myself wondering about things like Tourette’s too — whether some of that leans more toward the hyper side of the same underlying picture, just expressed differently. Some of it may well sit separately. But some of it also makes me wonder how much develops around years of trying to regulate, suppress, decode, compensate, recover, and repeat — especially the parts that stay internal and therefore often get mistaken for personality rather than recognised for what they are. The more I scribble around it, the less it feels like random overthinking and the more it feels like there may be something in it. I don’t know if I’m off track yet — but I’m not fully convinced I am.

Happy Birthday @Tia Boulton Please join me in wishing my wonderful girlfriend, partner soul mate Tia a very happy birthday. Tia and I have been on the journey of LIFE since 2011. We have bought up eachothers children and watched our parents get old together. We love each other passionately, bicker, fight and wrestle with this life. The bottom line is, She is there for me !!!! Like me, she has so much love to give the world, BUT ! LIKE ME ! The world wants to BOX her ....... GoodLuck World you ain't big enough for her !.. Tia I love you 😍 and even though we are spending yet another birthday apart. I want everyone to know that YOU are Mine and I am YOURS....... Thank for putting up with my madness... Love David.

Morning all — quick thought because my brain was already off on one before 6am. The more I looked through the premium content, the more I found myself translating a lot of it straight into neurodivergence, particularly ADHD, and then wider workforce thinking. A lot of what sits underneath recovery work — regulation, environment, behaviour patterns, consistency, motivation, communication, what helps someone engage and what makes them shut down — feels highly transferable. It made me wonder how many of you see that crossover too. Do you think the principles used within recovery coaching translate naturally into ADHD / neurodivergent support, or do you think they need holding quite separately because the drivers underneath are different? Genuinely interested in where people land on it, because the overlap feels bigger the more I think about it.

My Father was a chronic alcoholic, God bless his soul. I made this Ai video using our MAUNi-i Campus tools. The thumb nail is a picture of me and my Sister Sarah. Both her Brother (Me) and her Son Mathew (My Nephew) have what my father had !!!! Both Matthew and My Dad died by suicide. This is for the Families - @Luca Collins @Sam Collins @Michaela Collins @Tia Boulton @Paula Perkusic @Charlie Morrison @Ruth Lilleker @Jade Wilkinson @Tom Jack

Meet my daughter Natasha Collins. I couldnt be a prouder father.