This site exists because a late diagnosis doesn’t close a chapter—it transforms the way everything else is seen and understood.

This Explains a Lot is a space for reflective writing about being diagnosed with autism and ADHD in adulthood—and about what comes after the initial stages of relief and anger have passed. It’s concerned less with the moment of diagnosis, and more with the slower work of reinterpretation: looking back at a life already lived and understanding it differently.

The writing here is grounded in lived experience. It isn’t clinical, prescriptive, or motivational. I’m not interested in telling anyone how they should feel, what they should do, or how to “fix” themselves. What I’m interested in is language—especially for experiences that are often minimised, misunderstood, or flattened into advice.

Much of this work sits in the space between competence and cost. Between appearing to function and privately compensating. Between the version of yourself that others see and the one who has been doing the work to hold everything together.

This site is for adults who were diagnosed late, those who are beginning to recognise familiar patterns, and those who have spent a long time believing their difficulties were personal failings rather than context-dependent realities. It’s also for anyone who has discovered that understanding doesn’t arrive as clarity so much as complexity.

I write slowly, and I publish irregularly. Some posts are personal; others are analytical. All of them are shaped by the same aim: to tell the truth about what this stage of understanding actually feels like, without rushing it toward resolution.

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