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Alys Hedd
@alyshedd.bsky.social
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Late identified AuDHDer ♾️🌈
Mum to an ND teenager & autistic child with Down Syndrome 👧🏻👦🏻
Sober since 2019 🙌🏻
Lover of yoga 🧘🏻‍♀️
Wildlife gardener 🐦🌿
Dog mum to Shih-Tzus, Herschel & Ada 🐕🐶
I write on Substack: https://substack.com/@alyshedd?utm_source=user-menu
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Look what my amazing husband bought for my birthday 💞 I’ve been obsessed with Great British Sewing Bee for months now - time to have a go myself. I’m quite scared of this machine, to be honest - just watched the instructions on YouTube, and I’m feeling a bit better 🤣

#sewingbee #sewing
A Brother AE2500 model sewing machine - white with purple flower pattern on the right hand side.
September 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Doggy detention 🐕🐶🤣💞

#dogsky #doggydetention #naughtydogs #puppysky #dogs #puppy #shihtzu #blackdog #creamdog
Two shih-tzu dogs, one cream, one black, sitting behind a baby gate in a kitchen.
September 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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My anxiety levels are at an all-time high, I suspect C-PTSD is playing a part, and I'm looking for answers and relief.

#AuDHD #autism #ADHD #CPTSD #anxiety #neurodivergence

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The image shows a set of five russian dolls, largest at the back to smallest at the front, with the title 'Trauma, Masking and Layers: Escalating anxiety and C-PTSD'
September 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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A puffball (I think?) in our garden.

#fungifriends #fungisky
September 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Afternoon snack - dark chocolate, brasil nuts, walnuts, pumpkin and sunflower seeds with a cup of green tea - gotta get me those polyphenols 😜

#healthy #chocolate #darkchocolate #nuts #seeds #snack #foodsky #snacksky
September 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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This is the way...

#themandalorian #dressingup #clearthefeed #fun
September 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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I bow to my autistic / OCD need for organisation by rearranging 4 single flavour boxes of Hip Pop kombucha into my favourite order, for easy access…

#autism #OCD #neurodivergence #AuDHD #kombucha
September 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Spinning - a sensory seeker's heaven!

#spinning #sensoryseeking #sensory #autism #downsyndrome #neurodivergence
September 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I’m a creature of habit. Routine without rigidity is my safety net.
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#routine #neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD #autistic
September 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Snacks?
Please?
Herschel thinks with his stomach 🤣

#dogsky #shihtzu #dog #blackdog #fluffydog
September 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Meet Autistic Alys and ADHD Alys - characters in my digital zine, 'Alys' Adventures in AuDHD-Land'. It examines the push-pull dynamics of autism and ADHD when they coexist in the same brain (namely mine!)

#zine #digitalzine #AuDHD #autism #ADHD #substack
September 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Real-life footage I took from outside school - I had to pick Little One up early for an audiology appointment. It wasn't raining when I left the house!

#welshweather #rain #downpour
September 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I don't choose the next book; it chooses me.
I stand and wait for one to call me.

#booksky #books #homelibrary #bookshelf #library
September 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Today's energy = slowly, slowly, slowly... like the sloth 🦥

#ericcarle #sloth #nature #lowenergy #slowlydoesit

Photo by Roxanne Minnish on Pexels
September 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) - a profile within autism that triggers the nervous system when demands are made, either internal or external.

alyshedd.substack.com/p/on-demand-...

#pda #pathologicaldemandavoidance #autism #autismawareness #audhd #writing #substack
September 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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ADHD brain is like clutching helium balloons. 🎈 One idea, then another, then another.
I hold on tight and count them: 1, 2, 3… 1, 2, 3…
But then - oh look, a bird!
…And the balloons float away.

Does anyone else relate? 🫠

#ADHD #ADHDLife #AuDHD #NeurodivergentHumor #Neurodivergence #AIArt
September 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Wild strawberry in the garden - delicious 😋

#strawberry #homegrown #fruit #gardening
September 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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So - Naked Mole Rats at Chester Zoo today. Is it just me, or do they look like a bunch of penises with very sharp teeth and claws? 😱 There's a horror story in there somewhere! #horrorstory #nakedmolerats #nature #animals #NSFW #zoo
September 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Throwback to puppy Ada - so undignified 😜🐶. Tummy rubs please 🙏🏻
#shihtzu #puppy #fluffy #cutepuppy #goldenpuppy #sleepingpuppy
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Californian poppy - no idea how it got here, but it's been flowering for months, 20 - 30 blooms from a single plant at any one time!
#flower #bloomscrolling #poppy #pollinators #gardening
August 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Our mischievous twosome, Ada and Herschel - it's tricky to get a good photo of them together; this one is a few months old, when Ada was just a baby.
#shihtzus #dogfriends #puppy #dogs #cutedogs
Two dogs, the first a light gold coloured shih-tzu, lying on the grass, the second sitting next to her is a black shih-tzu.
August 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I'm a Stephen King fangirl. I've got all published novels and short story collections (Never Flinch is on my bedside table). 15 or so left to read; then I'll start over! The Stand and the Dark Tower series are my favourites.
@stephenking.bsky.social
#stephenking #books #bookcase #favouriteauthor
A bookshelf with 4 shelves full of Stephen King novels
August 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Dream big. This strawberry dreamed of being a slice of pizza. Close enough 🍓🍕
#dreambig #berryfunny #foodhumour #fruity
August 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Masking in school was like....
Me: tries to agree with everyone 🤯
#autism #adhd #audhd #masking
August 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM