In short
- At eleven I could read a page ten times and nothing would stick. Years later I was diagnosed with ADHD, and everything made sense.
- One in seven people in the UK is neurodivergent, and most have spent their lives in systems that were never designed for them.
- I've spent the last year building something that starts by showing people what's extraordinary about how their brain works.
I moved from primary to comprehensive and something just broke. I could read a page ten times and nothing would stick. The words were there but my brain refused to hold onto them. I would sit in class knowing I wasn't stupid, knowing something was working up there, just not in the way anyone needed it to. Nobody asked why. Nobody looked deeper. I was just another kid who wasn't keeping up.
Years later I was diagnosed with ADHD. And everything suddenly made sense. I don't learn through text. Never did. I download information through audio, through visuals, through conversations. Had one teacher known that when I was eleven, everything would have been different. I wouldn't have spent years thinking something was wrong with me.
ADHD has given me some incredible things. The hyperfocus, the creative thinking, the ability to see patterns other people miss. It has driven my entire career and I wouldn't change it. But I'd be lying if I said it was always a gift. There are days when it's an achilles heel. The overwhelm, the executive dysfunction, the inability to start the thing you know you need to do. The world isn't set up for brains like ours and sometimes that grinds you down no matter how far you've come. The truth is it's both. A superpower and a struggle, sometimes in the same hour. And I figured all of that out on my own because the system never showed me. I had to find my path despite it, not because of it.
I keep hearing the same story. Entrepreneurs, founders, creatives. A staggering number of them are neurodivergent and almost all of them will tell you the same thing. School didn't see them. Work didn't get them. They made it anyway, but they carry the scars of being measured by a system that was never built for the way their brain works.
Someone told me about a kid recently. Absolutely gifted at computer science. Genuinely brilliant. He was up for a scholarship and got turned down because he couldn't catch a bus on his own due to his autism. Someone had to fight to get that overturned. That kid now works with the Ministry of Defence. We nearly lost him entirely. Because the system measured a fish by its ability to climb a tree.
One in seven people in the UK is neurodivergent. That is not a niche. That is your colleague, your child, your partner. Maybe you. And most of them have spent their whole lives being pushed through systems that were never designed for them. Not because anyone meant harm. Teachers care deeply. Employers want to do the right thing. But they don't have the tools to understand how someone's brain actually works. We have been trying to force round pegs into square holes for generations and then blaming the pegs when they don't fit.
One in seven
Can you pick them out?
One in seven people in the UK is neurodivergent. Here are seventy people.
That is your colleague, your child, your partner. Maybe you.
I have spent the last year quietly building something that I believe can change that.
I am not ready to share the name yet. But I will tell you what it does, because I think some of you need to hear it.
It starts by showing you who you actually are. Not what is wrong with you. What is extraordinary about you. Your strengths, your superpowers, how your brain works at its best. In minutes, not months of waiting for an assessment that may never come. It creates something that belongs to you forever. Not a school's database. Not an employer's file. Yours. A living picture of who you are that travels with you from school to your first job to the rest of your life, and that the people around you can finally see and understand.
Not what is wrong with you. What is extraordinary about you.
It gives parents a way to support their children without guessing. It gives teachers a clear picture of how each child learns without adding to the mountain they are already buried under. It gives employers the insight to stop losing brilliant people they never understood. And it shows young people careers they didn't know existed, matched to who they actually are. Not a generic list. Real paths for real minds. Because no kid should ever be laughed at for saying what they want to be.
I have some incredible people behind this. NHS pilots already agreed before it even launches. Government conversations happening. Support from names that would genuinely surprise you. But the people I care about most aren't the big names. They are the parent who has been fighting for their child for years and is exhausted. The teenager who thinks something is wrong with them because school doesn't make sense. The adult who got diagnosed at 35 and suddenly understood their whole life. The employer who keeps losing brilliant people because they couldn't see what they had.
You are who I built this for.
I am opening a small private beta very soon. If any of this hit home, whether you are neurodivergent yourself, a parent, a teacher, an employer, or you just know someone who deserves to be understood better, drop a comment or send me a message. I want you to be one of the first to experience it.
Because I am done watching brilliant minds get overlooked. And I think it is about time someone built something that actually sees them.
