Pure Intention Services

Pure Intention Services is hiring a fully licensed therapist interested in working with autistic, ADHD, and otherwise neurodivergent individuals.

This is a 1099 role offering flexibility, autonomy, and the opportunity to provide meaningful, neurodiversity-affirming care.

Fort Wayne, IN + telehealth across Indiana.

To learn more or apply, email [email protected] or text (260) 330-2146.

Twice-exceptional students sit in a complicated place in school systems. They are identified as both gifted and disabled, which means they are constantly being pulled between two different sets of expectations that do not really fit together in practice.

Giftedness is treated as something to be developed through achievement and output. Disability is treated as something to be managed so it does not interfere too much with performance. When both exist in the same student, the system tends to separate them instead of integrating them.

What often ends up happening is that “exceptional” becomes conditional. Students are encouraged to perform at a high level, while their support needs are only addressed when they start to get in the way of that performance. Over time, the message becomes pretty consistent that value is tied to what you can produce, and your needs only matter in relation to how they affect that output.

That starts to shape how students see themselves. Self-worth becomes linked to productivity. Rest starts to feel like something that has to be justified. Struggle is only acknowledged if it is visible enough to warrant intervention, but not disruptive enough to affect outcomes. A lot of students learn to keep going by disconnecting from what it costs them.

This is not just an educational pattern as it becomes part of how students are socialized to understand their own worth in general. So the question becomes less about identification and more about design.

Is this pipeline unintentionally shaping students into a very specific outcome, where the goal is to produce adults who are functional, productive, and able to meet middle-class expectations, even if it requires ongoing self-suppression to maintain it? Because if that is what is being reinforced, then we are not just talking about support needs in school. We are talking about what the system is actually training people to believe about themselves.

🧩 The puzzle piece symbol has been rejected by the autistic community. Here’s why clinicians need to listen.

The puzzle piece was created in 1963 by a neurotypical parent and made famous by Autism Speaks. For decades, autistic self-advocates have been asking us to retire it. As clinicians, it’s our job to hear that.

Here’s what it communicates, whether it intends to or not:
👉🏽It implies autistic people are incomplete. A missing piece suggests something needs fixing. Autism is a neurotype, not a deficit.
👉🏽 It frames autism as a mystery to be solved. The original logo described autistic people as “puzzling” to those around them. That’s not affirming. That’s othering.
👉🏽 It was built by and for neurotypical organizations, not by autistic people, for autistic people. Affirming advocacy centers autistic voices, always.

So what do we use instead? The ∞ infinity symbol, adopted by autistic-led organizations to honor the diversity and infinite variation of the autistic experience. Wholeness, not brokenness.

At Pure Intention Services, we follow the lead of the people we serve. That means identity-first language, affirming symbols, and care built with neurodivergent people, not about them.

If this is new information for you, that’s okay. Now you know. 🌊

Drop a comment if you’re making the switch. Share this with a colleague who needs to see it.

Swipe if the week before your period feels like a completely different level of dysfunction. 🌊

PMDD hits harder when you’re neurodivergent and there’s a reason. Estrogen acts as a neurochemical buffer for the autistic and ADHD nervous system. When it drops in your luteal phase, executive function collapses, sensory sensitivity spikes, and masking becomes impossible. It’s not a mood disorder. It’s your nervous system losing what was holding it together.

And that’s only one piece of the hormonal picture. Swipe to the end to find out what happens when estrogen doesn’t just drop for a week — but doesn’t come back.

Full chapter in Finding Your Wavelength — link in bio. 🌊

Clarity changes everything.

Our AuDHD Assessment Package is designed for adults who want more than a checklist. This is a thorough, neurodiversity-affirming process that looks at the full picture—developmental history, sensory profile, co-occurring conditions, and lived experience.

You’ll leave with:
🧠 A comprehensive report that actually reflects you
🔍 Clear answers, not guesswork
🧭 Practical recommendations and next steps

This is not about labeling. It’s about understanding your wiring so you can move forward with intention.

$1,100 cash rate
Payment plans available
Insurance billing accepted

Ready to schedule a consultation? Link in bio.

If you’ve been in your 40s or 50s and suddenly felt like everything stopped working — your focus, your ability to mask, your emotional regulation, your capacity to do the things you’ve always managed to do — this is for you.

There’s a physiological reason this happens for autistic and ADHD women at this life stage, and it doesn’t get talked about nearly enough.

Estrogen regulates dopamine and serotonin. For decades it provides a neurochemical buffer that partially compensates for the executive function and emotional regulation differences that come with autism and ADHD. When estrogen declines in perimenopause, that buffer goes with it. The masking that felt hard but manageable can become suddenly, completely impossible. The systems that held start to fail. And for many people, this is the moment a lifetime of undiagnosed neurodivergence finally becomes impossible to hide — from the world, and from themselves.

Many late diagnoses arrive not because the neurodivergence is new. It was always there. The compensation just ran out.

This is one of the chapters I’m most proud of in Finding Your Wavelength. It’s the one I wish had existed a long time ago.

Link in bio — or grab it directly at the link below. 🌊
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If you're AuDHD, you're probably not dealing with just one thing.

The chronic pain. The fatigue that sleep doesn't fix. The anxiety that got diagnosed long before anyone looked deeper. The heart that races when you stand up. The reactions nobody could explain.

These aren't separate, unrelated issues. They share the same foundation — the neurodivergent nervous system — and they cluster together at rates that are not coincidental.

In Finding Your Wavelength, Chapter 7 covers the conditions most commonly seen alongside autism and ADHD:

🩵 hEDS / HSD
🩵 POTS
🩵 MCAS
🩵 Dysautonomia
🩵 Chronic pain & fatigue
🩵 Sleep disorders
🩵 Migraines
🩵 Anxiety & depression
🩵 C-PTSD
🩵 OCD & RSD
🩵 Sensory processing differences

You are not a hypochondriac. You are not dramatic. You are a person with a nervous system that has been working overtime, in a medical system that wasn't built to see you whole.

Finding Your Wavelength is available now — link in bio.

Erica has spent the past two years engaged in research, clinical work, writing, and lived experience as an AuDHD adult. Finding Your Wavelength is the result of that process.

This book is written for autistic and ADHD adults seeking more than a diagnostic overview. It explores commonly co-occurring physical health patterns, the emotional experiences many individuals lack language for, the gap between intention and action that is often misunderstood, and the broader context of a nervous system that processes the world differently.

The intent is to offer a resource that is both clinically informed and practically meaningful.

Finding Your Wavelength is now available.

Finding Your Wavelength: Autism, ADHD, and the Complete Neurodivergent Experience – Body, Mind, and Spirit Finding Your Wavelength: Autism, ADHD, and the Complete Neurodivergent Experience – Body, Mind, and Spirit