Wired Divergent is a show for autistic & AuDHD adults who spent a long time performing a version of themselves that was never really them and understand how disregulating this can be. Host Jen deHaan is a late-identified AuDHD coach, long-time improviser, and is certified in several nervous system regulation models and trauma-informed coaching. Masking is a form of scripted performance a lot of neurodivergent people learn young that often leads to disregulated nervous systems and burnout. This channel lives where those things meet: unmasking, and confidence and nervous systems that hold up when you stop performing for a world that keeps treating us as the problem. Expect masking and autistic burnout, late-identified life and self-trust, social confidence and getting out of your own head, and the shame that came from outside you. Some episodes go deep on why something happens, and other episodes hand you one easy tool or idea to try on your own. All of it comes from an AuDHD person talking to autistic & AuDHD people, with no pathologizing and no fixing. We will be unmasking and unraveling any remaining long-internalized shame together. New episodes released on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Thursday episodes offer a guided nervous system regulation practice (and is inclusive of those with limited interoception and/or alexithymia). If you want to work on these things, such as unmasking and confidence building, alongside other people, Jen runs workshops about all of this and is developing an asynchronous one to one coaching practice. Head to jendehaan.com for more information. About Jen: Jen deHaan is a late-identified autistic and ADHD (AuDHD) coach, producer, and improviser based in British Columbia, with a background in creative education. She has close to 30 years in creative work and over a decade teaching improv and performance. She coaches one to one and runs workshops for neurodivergent adults building confidence and understanding. Jen is also writing, producing and hosting a TV show called Grounded for Optik+ about neurodivergent brains and nervous system regulation that will launch and stream in 2027. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy