About Me

My name is Teodora (friends call me Teo), a late diagnosed AuDHD woman, consultant, speaker, writer, sensory integration facilitator, columnist for Connectiverse Magazine and parent to three neurodivergent children.

I work at the intersection of neurodiversity, human understanding and the systems we create around people.

My work challenges the assumptions that shape how we understand one another: why we interpret difference as difficulty, mistake distress for defiance, expect people to prove they need support, and place the responsibility for navigating inaccessible environments on the people most affected by them.

Through my work, I explore what it means to move beyond awareness and good intentions towards meaningful change. This includes but is not limited to rethinking psychological safety at work, understanding the roles of comfort and recovery in wellbeing, and recognising that inclusion is about more than teaching people to cope with the world as it is.

We can learn a great deal about neurodivergence and still make assumptions about the people in front of us. Understanding the language does not automatically mean understanding the person.

I bring a questioning, practical and human perspective to conversations that can become simplified, prescriptive or reduced to checklists.

I am interested in the space between what we intend and what people actually experience; in the support we make people earn; in the difference between offering safety and demanding compliance; and in what becomes possible when we stop assuming we already know what someone else needs.

My work is  about making room for greater understanding and creating environments in which people do not have to work so hard to be understood, accepted or supported.

A big part of how I share these ideas is through my writing. Over on my Substack, I publish regular articles, reflections, and deep dives exploring what it truly means to navigate the world as a neurodivergent person.