The Most Important Thing My Son’s Teachers Ever Read Wasn’t His IEP
Read Time: 22 minutes Every August felt the same. The backpacks were packed. The school supplies had been bought. Families filled social media with first-day pictures, excited smiles, and fresh starts. While everyone else seemed excited about the beginning of another school year, I sat at my computer wondering something entirely different. Who will my […]
Your Brain Was Never Meant to Remember Everything
We’ve all heard it. “Just remember.” “Don’t forget.” “You need to be more organized.” “Maybe write it down.” (Which is always my favorite advice because…where did I write down where I wrote the thing down?) The funny thing is that we’ve somehow accepted this idea that the human brain should be able to remember hundreds […]
The Advice We Needed Most Wasn’t About Being Neurodivergent
When our family first started navigating neurodivergence, we thought the answers would come from learning more about ADHD, autism, dyslexia, executive functioning, accommodations, and all the other terms that suddenly became part of our everyday vocabulary. And to be fair, some of them did. Learning how our brains worked helped. Understanding diagnoses helped. Finding accommodations […]
What Neurodiversion Taught Us About Building NeuroLocker
By the time day 3 started, everything felt a little different. My anxiety wasn’t gone (it never is, honestly), but it shifted from a constant, overwhelming “what if everything goes wrong” feeling to a quieter, more normal background level of anxiety. After two full days of conversations, sessions, and nonstop input, it felt like my […]
The Moment It Became Real: Talking to 200 People in 2 Days
Day 1 of the event. We woke up, grabbed breakfast with our partnerships guy (shoutout to Chris for being there with us!), and headed over to the expo hall to set up our booth. This was our first event experience, and the anxiety leading up to it was a lot more intense than we expected. […]
From Idea to Expo: The Pressure Behind Showing Up
Neurodiversion! Our biggest event of the year so far! Even better, our biggest event ever so far! Yes we just launched a few weeks ago, but this event had a lot of pressure riding on it, whether we knew it or not. This was our first neurodivergent event experience, and honestly, we had no idea what […]
Intro To NeuroLocker
Hello! Welcome to NeuroLocker! We are so glad you have found us and cannot wait to get to know you!
What is Neurolocker
Hello! Welcome back! I hope that you took the time to meet us in our first blog – it is important for you to know that we aren’t just building a tool to say we did, but that we really get it! So…let’s jump in. What is NeuroLocker? NeuroLocker, in its most basic form, […]
Neurodivergent Dad
Fatherhood, It’s a beautiful, messy, and often overwhelming experience for anyone. But for neurodivergent dads like myself add a cocktail of anxiety, ADHD, depression among others…
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