Why We Started The Neurodivergent Uprising

We started The Neurodivergent Uprising because the systems meant to support mothers like us; school, therapy, even self-help have gaslit, pathologized, and overwhelmed us instead.

This movement was born from lived experience:
from crying in parking lots after IEP meetings,
from choking on shame while cereal passed as dinner again,
from forgetting forms, birthdays, appointments, then blaming ourselves for the forgetting.

We started this because we were told to “just try harder” when our nervous systems were in full collapse.

Because the advice was always: be calm, be organized, be everything.
And no one ever asked: at what cost?

Motherhood : As Sovereignty, Not Self-Erasure

We're dismantling the myth of the “good mother” as silent, selfless, and suffering.

We name the truth:
ND mothers are told that parenting must come at the cost of their own body, brain, and bandwidth.

We offer something different:

Motherhood led by capacity, not compliance
Self-trust over self-sacrifice
Regulation over performance
Routines that honor our neurology, not shame it

✅ We’re making motherhood a place where wholeness, not martyrdom, is the goal.

**Support Systems : Designed For ND Moms, By ND Moms**

Traditional support systems fail us because they:

Give us checklists when we need regulation
Offer platitudes instead of practices
Prescribe solutions built for neurotypical moms with more time, less trauma, and external support

We create a different kind of support:

Tools built with executive function limitations in mind
Science-backed strategies that honor nervous system windows of tolerance
Resources that are trauma-informed, not productivity-driven
A community that doesn’t ask you to mask

✅ We’re replacing shame-based advice with body-led, collaborative care.

Advocacy: As Nervous System Literacy, Not War

We’ve been trained to believe that advocacy is a battle:

You prepare to fight
You brace for shutdown
You spiral afterward, wondering if you were too much or not enough

We redefine advocacy as a nervous-system-informed, story-based practice.
It’s not just about documents and deadlines.
It’s about capacity. Presence. Voice.

✅ We teach mothers to advocate from regulation, not reactivity and to be heard without harm.

Self-Development : Without Hustle or Hypocrisy

We don’t do “boss mom” culture.
We don’t teach you to rise by grinding harder.

We build new pathways:

Subconscious rewiring that helps you stop performing and start trusting
Somatic strategies that regulate not bypass your nervous system
Growth that includes grief, softness, and sensory breaks

We turn healing into a homecoming not a checklist

What We're Really Doing

We are rewriting the system from the inside out mother by mother.

With nervous system science as our foundation
With story and lived experience as strategy
With community that gets it
And with tools that don’t require you to become someone else to use them

This is how ND moms rise.
Not through force but through softness, sovereignty, and soul.