Neurocomplex Lifespan Model: Gifted Kid to Autistic and/or ADHDer Adult (in Burnout)
A resource (PDF) to share with your therapist, coach, partner or medical provider to provide context around your complexity
Neurocomplexity Lifespan Model
I’ve created this very special download that depicts a holistic unfolding model of the lifespan of Neurocomplex individuals, based on anecdotal and research that I’ve gathered throughout my career, including the following areas of subjective experience:
- School/academic functioning
- Workplace functioning
- Social/interpersonal life
- Mental health
- Physical health
- Gender
- Sexuality
- Existential issues
This lifespan model explains common phenomena in Neurocomplex beings in early and middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood and beyond.
Burnout, Diagnosis and Post-Burnout
This download also illustrates common contributors to burnout in the Neurocomplex that can often lead to shifts in functioning and/or diagnosis of Autism and/or ADHD.
Finally, this model offers methods of recovering from Neurocomplex burnout by honoring these individuals’ inherent drive to embody meaningful and purposeful living while navigating the ongoing unique balance of the needs of a complex body-mind (rest, movement/stillness, input/output, connection/alone time, stillness) to support all aspects of functioning, in addition to the sustainability of a meaningful existence.
