Schools Out for Summer: The Neurodiversity Dilemma

Drudgery and Dreams Podcast cover art for Episode 23. Schools Out for Summer: The Neurodiversity Dilemma

With the school year coming to a close–everybody is heading into transition. Whether you’re excited or scared shitless, listen up because we’re gonna talk through all the different end of school year transitions, frustrations, and coping skills this summer will require for both children AND adults. In this last episode of season 2, Molly and […]

Planning Her AuDHD Way with Sabra Gilbert

Drudgery and Dreams Podcast Season 2, Episode 22 Cover Art: Planning Her AuDHD Way with Sabra Gilbert

Raise your hand if you have bought a planner, used it for a good two weeks, and then left it to die in a drawer or doom pile filled with more planners. The complexities that are being multi-passionate, and an intense planner who may or may not need flexibility leads you to a planner graveyard. […]

Don’t Tell Me How to Function

Episode Cover Art for Drudgery and Dreams Podcast. Episode 21 Don't tell me how to function

The Struggle Bus is real. Oh shit, can I say that? Today’s conversation takes Angela and Molly into the DSM 5 game of Autistic “levels” of support.  Where they will talk all about the importance of wordshow outdated words need to go (maybe)why functioning labels (in all forms) can fly a freakin’ kite and also […]

Stress, Silos, and Racing Thoughts

Drudgery and Dreams Episode Cover Art for Episode 20 Stress, Silos, and Racing Thoughts

“Have you ever had something you were looking forward to so much, and you had to put so much effort and energy in planning that thing and it’s consumed your mind and kept you up at night? And you’re up in the morning and you’re barely eating or you’re over eating? Because you’re putting so […]

Advocating and IEPs with Rebecca A. Weiner, M.Ed.

Episode Cover Drudery and Dreams Episode 19 Advocacy and IEPs with Rebecca A. Weiner, M.Ed.

Rebecca A. Weiner, M.Ed. is back with us today in this powerful episode about inclusion, advocacy and self-advocacy, IEPs and other learning plans and goal-setting, and the power of curiosity (seriously, she has an amazing story about a classroom transformation all thanks to the power of “so what” and “what-if” in one of the classrooms […]

Stimagz with Kody Lukens

Drudgery and Dreams Episode 18 Cover Art - Stimagz with Kody Lukens

Molly and Angela are joined by Stimagz founder, Kody Lukens. They start the episode off right nerding out over Mandalorian – don’t worry, no spoilers – and the Millenium Falcon before jumping into the creation of Stimagz, Kody’s ADHD experience, how cool squirrels are, motivation, entrepreneurship, and the need to just go ahead and embarrass […]

Why can’t my neurodivergence be accommodated, too?

Episode Art Drudgery and Dreams Episode 17 Why can't my neurodivergence be accommodated, too?

“Back the fork up. I’m about to explode like my little kiddos house in Minecraft when it’s built from TNT” (Molly, 7:56). Today, we are talking about needing accommodations but not always getting them because we are the one’s doing the accommodations most of the time. Because we can…until we can’t. We talk about why […]

Neurodivergent Sensory, Stims, & Supports

Drudgery and Dreams Episode cover art. Episode 16, Neurodivergent Sensory, Stims, and Support

Rocking, magnets, and squeeks*! Oh my! In this episode, we get into the nitty gritty of the senses, all eight of them. You heard that right—EIGHT, not the five you were taught in elementary school! Then things get stimmy when Molly shares how multiple ND people in one home can be tricky and Angela adds […]

Stardate 76568.5 Molly’s Neurodivergent, Queer, Squeektastic Voyage

Drudgery and Dreams, Podcast Cover Art. Episode 15, Stardate 76568.5 Molly’s Neurodivergent, Queer, Squeektastic Voyage

Sergeant Squeaks is in the house! Molly may not have known they were neurodivergent their whole life–but now that she does? Well–that’s what this episode is all about. Reflecting on the highest and lowest points of her past to acknowledge the (now obvious) signs of her ND life. Listen as Angela helps Molly talley up […]

Angela’s ADHD, Queer, Autistic Wonderland

Drudgery and Dreams podcast episode 14 cover art: Angela's ADHD, Queer, Autistic Wonderland

You asked for it so here it is. Angela’s story. Angela takes Molly on a tour through her Wonderland. The story starts in Weirdville and takes a side quest to Queertown. A trip to Autisticland brings back memories for Molly as she recalls Angela’s first visit before she realized that it was home. And Angela […]

Anti-Resolutions & New Year’s Transitions

Drudgery and Dreams Episode cover art. Episode 13, Anti-resolutions and New Year's Resolutions

Welcome to Season 2! Molly and Angela are excited to get going this year! And what better topic than resolutions and transitions, right?  True to their ND spirits, they aren’t jumping on the resolutions bandwagon.  Instead, they are talking anti-resolutions by not making resolutions at all or—YIKES!—only making resolutions that you actually want to make […]

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