A Mind Elsewhere

A journey through neurodivergence, survival, healing, and finding beauty in the mess.

cptsd

October 4, 2025

The Unexpected Ways Neurodivergence Shows Up

Here’s something I never thought I would admit publicly… Once I told a therapist something I had thought about my entire life. You could say I was secretly obsessed. I devoured books on the subjects, spent a fair amount of time in class and home daydreaming about it, and talking about it with the people… Continue reading

Neurodiverse Life

actually autistic, cptsd, neurodivergent voices, neurospicy
October 2, 2025

Kites, Dogs, and Puppets: Living in this Brain

Kites, Dogs, and Puppets: Living in This Brain You know what’s really hard about having a neurodivergent brain? A trauma-riddled brain? A dysregulated brain? That I don’t get to choose. I am merely a puppet on a stick. A leashed dog. Not in control, but going with it. What will it be today? A new… Continue reading

Neurodiverse Life

actually autistic, cptsd, neurodivergent voices, trauma

About Me

Hi, I’m Kass.

I’m a neurodivergent artist, writer, mom, and human living with CPTSD just trying to make sense of this wildly beautiful and chaotically imperfect world. After a mental health crisis of monumental sorts cracked everything open, I began piecing myself back together with the help of loved ones, professionals, and a lot of radical honesty, art, and self-discovery.

Now, I am back in school studying psychology, making sense of my own experiences while learning how to help others do the same.

Here, I write about the raw stuff: about trauma, messing up (alot), addiction, grief, recovery, neurodivergence, self-identified autism, and the long, winding road to healing.

About life and death and everything in between.

This space is my way of surviving out loud.
A place for the misfits, the feelers, the ones who’ve been told they’re too much or not enough.

I don’t have all the answers. I’m not a therapist. I’m just someone who’s been lost inside themselves and made it out. Someone who thinks the world needs a little more raw and a lot more real … and is doing her best to be a part of that shift.

I share what I can, when I can. And if it helps someone else feel seen… then it’s worth it.If you’re tired of the “perfect story”…

Welcome. You’re not alone here.

cptsd

The Unexpected Ways Neurodivergence Shows Up

Kites, Dogs, and Puppets: Living in this Brain