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Rebelling
Stop playing it cool.
Rebelling is a neurodivergent-centered ecosystem that's about talking, researching, imagining, and working on a new emerging future that is made for us.
Hello :) I'm glad you're here. Rebelling is my home on the internet, and I am making this home because seeing my ND self reflected back to me out in the world has been a rare thing in my life. I want to change that for all of us. I invite you in, to be seen, heard, and recognized ways that help you feel like you make sense and belong. Take a look around, and make yourself at home.🫱
Hi!
I'm Amy.
This is me at Duke Gardens March 19, 2024- totally unaware that in April I'd be diagnosed with ADHD, and then in October I'd be diagnosed with autism.
What I did know that day was that I had just gone through what my therapist thought was a bout of depression and spring was making me feel both hopeful and annoyed.
Here's a bit about me:
🍓I'm 53 years old. I'm a queer, able bodied late-diagnosed AuDHD human. I was identified gifted as a child. I live in Durham, NC, USA. I have 2 children (both ND)- one young adult, one teen, and 2 cats- Rosie and Nellie. I've been married for 20 years, my husband (also ND!) and I have lived separately since 2020.(I moved out 2 weeks before the pandemic started!)
🥰I've been sober and in recovery since December 7, 2012. I put together my own unconventional recovery. I write a blog about it called Soberbia.(find older posts here) Sobriety is the backbone of my life.
📚I love reading, learning, writing, running in the woods, and when someone else makes the food. Cloudy dreary days are my favorite. (Sunny days are so pushy! lol) I love talking to other humans about humans, and learning about people and what their lives and experience of life is like for them.
🤓I have never had a 9-5 job, and I don't have a degree. I'm fortunate to have a unique perspective when it comes to questioning long-standing corporate structures and deeply rooted social constructs. I am constantly studying and learning about the human experience and understanding it. I did my coach training with IPEC and got my certification in 2017; I have a PCC from the ICF if you're into letters for things like that. :)
🦄I have felt different from other people all my life, and up until this year I didn't understand why, so I just kept trying harder. I didn't get why what was important to other people wasn't important to me, why I couldn't just be 'normal'. Discovering my ADHD and autism and then learning more about AuDHD and giftedness is giving me the room I need to stop trying so hard to fit in. Now I'm learning how to be myself.
And...Trying harder was never going to work for me because I was trying harder in a system that wasn't made with me in mind! My 8 years of coaching experience, over 12 years of sobriety and recovery, 20 years of parenting, a lifetime of self driven learning, and my neurodivergent experience provides an uncommon and fresh perspective. I'm in it with you, and I’m doing my own work too. I read, learn, and study all the time and it's why I made Rebelling- so I can share all of it with other people- like you 😊
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