Inside the Pickle Jar: Connecting with the Spectrum

Tonya Weaver
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Welcome to ‘Inside the Pickle Jar,’ the only podcast where being in a pickle is a good thing! It’s your go-to audio feast for all things neurodivergent. We’re like the crunchy dill to your sandwich, adding flavor to the way you see the world. Each episode, we’ll dive headfirst into the kaleidoscope of neurodivergent life. Are you neurodivergent, or just neurocurious? A partner in crime to someone who marches to the beat of their own drum? Or maybe you’re a boss trying to decode the enigma of inclusive leadership? Buckle up, because this podcast is the Rosetta Stone for cracking the code of neurodiversity. Join us for expert chit-chats, heartwarming tales, and pro tips that are more useful than a Swiss Army knife. ‘Inside the Pickle Jar’ is here to jazz up your journey to stronger connections, one episode at a time. So, tune in and turn up the volume while we transform the way you perceive neurodiversity and unlock the potential in every unique mind.

  1. 5d ago

    A Letter to My Younger AuDHD Self - and maybe yours

    This is the one I saved for last. Because I think it is the most important one. We have talked about the things we do that look weird but make complete sense. We have talked about the friendship thing and why connection is so hard and so intense for our brains. Today I want to do something different. I want to write a letter. To the younger version of you. The one who was figuring all of this out without a map. Without language. Without anyone who could tell her what was actually happening in her brain. This is what we wish someone had said to us earlier. In this letter: The exhaustion is real and it has a nameYour intensity is not a flaw, it is a gift for the right peopleThe unspoken rules were never obvious to everyoneYour brain has superpowers tooIt is okay to not know who you are yetYou were always going to be okayAnd one more thing: Something big is coming October 1. The Weird Girls Club is redefining new year, and we are spending a full year doing something together. Listen to the end to find out what. JOIN THE WEIRD GIRLS CLUB The Weird Girls Club is for AuDHD women who are done pretending and ready to be known exactly as they are. Weird Girls Club – Inside the Pickle Jar SOMETHING BIG IS COMING OCTOBER 1 Starting October 1 the Weird Girls Club is spending a full year reading Make Your Creative Dreams Real by SARK...month by month, week by week, micro-movement by micro-movement. Go order the book now so you have it in your hands before we begin. Make Your Creative Dreams Real by SARK, available on Amazon and wherever books are sold. Here is the Amazon link: https://a.co/d/02f7oWpp (it is NOT an affiliate link. I make $0 on the purchase. I just wanted to make is easy for you to find.) FREE RESOURCE Four Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain A free guide that does the explaining for you. https://www.insidethepicklejar.com THIS IS EPISODE 108 — THE END OF THE FIRST WEIRD GIRLS CLUB SERIES Episode 106: The Things We Do That Look Weird But Make Complete Sense https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/2378499/episodes/19725412-the-things-we-do-that-look-weird-but-make-complete-sense Episode 107: The Friendship Thing https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/2378499/episodes/19762550-the-friendship-thing-why-it-s-so-hard The Weird Girls Club series continues October 1 with something bigger than we have done before. Subscribe so you do not miss it. CONNECT WITH TONYA 🥒 Grab something from the shop: https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com  📬 Get "4 Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain" (free): https://www.insidethepicklejar.com  💌 Join the Pen Pal Club: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com/the-jar/  🕸️ Website: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com & https://www.risingtidecoaching.org  🚇 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@insidethepicklejar_  📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidethepicklejar_  🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/tonyaweaver606  💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmweaver IF THIS EPISODE RESONATED Please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with the younger woman in your life who needs to hear that she was never too much. She needs to find the jar. Be gentle with yourself, pickle friend. I'll see you next time inside the jar. #InsideThePickleJar #WeirdGirlsClub #Neurodivergent #ADHD #Autism #AuDHD #LetterToMyYoungerSelf #NDCommunity #PickleFriends #NeurodivergentWomen #YouWereNeverTooMuch #LateIDiagnosis #October1 #SARK #CreativeDreams Support the show

    A Letter to My Younger AuDHD Self - and maybe yours

  2. Sep 16

    The Friendship Thing: Why It's So Hard

    Nobody tells you that friendship is supposed to feel this hard. You watch other people make friends effortlessly, at work, at parties, in class, and you wonder what you are missing. What the unwritten rulebook says that everyone else seems to have already read. And then when you do find someone who gets it, really gets it, you love them with your whole heart and excellent memory and complete devotion. And sometimes that is too much for the person receiving it. And you learn, slowly and painfully, to turn it down. This episode is about all of it. The making. The losing. The loving too hard. And why none of it means you are broken.   In this episode: • Why making friends is genuinely harder for AuDHD brains and what is actually happening neurologically • The specific ways we lose friendships without ever understanding what went wrong • Time blindness and the friendship gap - why silence reads as indifference when it is anything but • What it means to love with the full force of an AuDHD heart • Why the right people will not ask you to turn it down • What the Weird Girls Club is for JOIN THE WEIRD GIRLS CLUB The Weird Girls Club is for AuDHD women who are done pretending and ready to be known exactly as they are. Weird Girls Club – Inside the Pickle Jar FREE RESOURCE Four Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain DOWNLOAD Previous episode: Episode 106 — The Things We Do That Look Weird But Make Complete Sense LINK FIND ME 🥒 Grab something from the shop: https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com  🕸️ Website: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com & https://www.risingtidecoaching.org  🚇 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@insidethepicklejar_  📸 Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/tonya_weaver_coach  🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/tonyaweaver606  💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmweaver Be gentle with yourself, pickle friend. I'll see you next time inside the jar. 💚 Hashtags: #InsideThePickleJar #WeirdGirlsClub #Neurodivergent #ADHD #Autism #AuDHD #TheFriendshipThing #NDCommunity #PickleFriends #NeurodivergentWomen #YouAreNotTooMuch #LateIDiagnosis Support the show

    The Friendship Thing: Why It's So Hard

  3. Sep 9

    The Things We Do That Look Weird But Make Complete Sense

    Welcome to the Weird Girls Club. This is a new series inside Inside the Pickle Jar for the woman who has always felt a little too much, a little too intense, a little too different. The one who figured out early that certain parts of herself needed to stay hidden in order to belong. The one who is done pretending. We are starting with the things we do that look weird from the outside but make complete and total sense once you understand how our brains actually work. The stimming that everyone told you to stop. The conversations you rehearse in your head before you have them. The same outfit worn until it is genuinely unwearable. The same meal eaten for three weeks straight until you suddenly cannot stand it. You are not weird. You are wired differently. And there is a jar full of people who do exactly what you do. In this episode: What stimming actually is and why stopping it makes focus worse, not betterWhy scripting conversations in advance is adaptive and resourceful, not anxiousThe nervous system logic behind wearing the same outfit and eating the same meal on repeatWhy these things are not flaws — they are your brain being extremely smart about conserving its resourcesAn introduction to the Weird Girls Club and what it is forJOIN THE WEIRD GIRLS CLUB The Weird Girls Club is officially open. It is the community for AuDHD women who are done pretending and ready to be known exactly as they are. Weird Girls Club – Inside the Pickle Jar FREE RESOURCE If there is someone in your life who still thinks the things you do are weird rather than wired, I made something that might help explain it. Four Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain A free guide that does the explaining for you. https://www.insidethepicklejar.com THIS IS EPISODE 106 Starting our third year. One hundred and six episodes. Thank you for being here for every single one of them. The jar exists because you kept showing up. And so do we. MORE FROM THE WEIRD GIRLS CLUB SERIES This is the first episode in the Weird Girls Club series. More coming soon: The Friendship Thing - why making and keeping friends is so much harder than anyone realizesWhat We Wish Someone Had Said to Us Earlier - a letter to the younger version of youSubscribe so you do not miss them. CONNECT WITH TONYA 🥒 Grab something from the shop: https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com  📬 Get "4 Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain" (free): https://www.insidethepicklejar.com  💌 Join the Pen Pal Club: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com/the-jar/  🕸️ Website: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com & https://www.risingtidecoaching.org  🚇 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@insidethepicklejar_  📸 Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/tonya_weaver_coach  🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/tonyaweaver606  💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmweaver IF THIS EPISODE RESONATED Please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with a woman in your life who has always felt a little too much. She needs to find the jar. Reviews help other neurodivergent adults find us. Be gentle with yourself, pickle friend. I'll see you next time inside the jar. #InsideThePickleJar #WeirdGirlsClub #Neurodivergent #ADHD #Autism #AuDHD #NDCommunity #PickleFriends #NeurodivergentWomen #Stimming #Scripting #NeurodivergentLife #YouAreNotWeird #LateIDiagnosis #Episode106 Support the show

    The Things We Do That Look Weird But Make Complete Sense

  4. Sep 2

    Meet Eleanor - The Focus Sprite (and your attention to detail gifts)

    Meet Eleanor. She is bright blue, she has three eyes, and she sees absolutely everything. Eleanor is the Focus Sprite, the last character in the Inside the Pickle Jar neighborhood, and she represents something that I think is one of the most misunderstood experiences in the neurodivergent world. Not a deficit of attention. A deficit of attention filtering. Eleanor is not failing to pay attention. She is paying attention to everything simultaneously, all the time, without being able to easily decide what matters and what does not. She is the reason you notice things other people miss. The reason sensory environments cost so much. The reason certain spaces feel impossible and certain others feel like home. And the reason your brain, when it is in the right conditions, sees connections and patterns that genuinely extraordinary minds are built to see. This is also a milestone episode. Inside the Pickle Jar is entering its third year. And I want to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who has been in this space, who has shared these episodes, who has told someone else that they finally found the language they were looking for. The jar exists because you kept showing up. And I am so glad you are here. In this episode: Meet Eleanor, the Focus Sprite - the sixth and final character in the Inside the Pickle Jar neighborhoodWhat distractibility actually is - and why attention filtering is a more accurate description than attention deficitWhat it costs to live in a brain that processes everything consciouslyThe gift Eleanor carries - pattern recognition, perceptiveness, and a kind of intelligence the world has not always known what to do withA milestone moment - Inside the Pickle Jar enters its third yearFREE RESOURCE If there is someone in your life who still thinks your distractibility is a choice or a lack of effort, I made something that might help explain what is actually happening. Four Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain A free guide that does the explaining for you. https://www.insidethepicklejar.com MEET THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD Now that Eleanor has joined the jar, all six characters are here: Emily - The Time Blindness GoblinLily - The Executive Function GremlinRosie - The Stress MonsterMillie - The Hyperfocus DragonEleanor - The Focus SpriteLittle T - The Inner Child ArchivistStickers and trading cards for the neighborhood are available in the shop at insidethepicklejar.com MISSED PREVIOUS EPISODES? Episode 6: Meet Emily — The Time Blindness Goblin https://www.buzzsprout.com/2378499/episodes/19588342-meet-emily-the-time-blindness-goblin-and-why-it-s-not-your-fault-you-re-late Episode 7: Meet Lily — The Executive Function Gremlin https://www.buzzsprout.com/2378499/episodes/19621364-you-re-not-lazy-meet-lily-the-executive-function-gremlin Episode 8: Meet Rosie — The Stress Monster https://www.buzzsprout.com/2378499/episodes/19654247-meet-rosie-the-stress-monster-and-why-you-need-rest Episode 9: Meet Millie — The Hyperfocus Dragon https://www.buzzsprout.com/2378499/episodes/19688213-meet-millie-the-hyperfocus-dragon-and-how-to-use-your-super-power THREE YEARS IN THE JAR This episode marks the beginning of Inside the Pickle Jar's third year. Thank you for being here. Thank you for sharing these episodes. Thank you for telling someone else that they finally found the language they were looking for. The jar exists because you kept showing up. CONNECT WITH TONYA 🥒 Grab something from the shop: https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com  📬 Get "4 Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain" (free): https://www.insidethepicklejar.com  💌 Join the Pen Pal Club: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com/the-jar/  🕸️ Website: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com & https://www.risingtidecoaching.org  🚇 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@insidethepicklejar_  📸 Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/tonya_weaver_coach  🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/tonyaweaver606  💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmweaver IF THIS EPISODE RESONATED Please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who has ever been told they are not paying attention when really they are paying attention to everything. Reviews help other neurodivergent adults find the jar. Be gentle with yourself, pickle friend. I'll see you next time inside the jar. #InsideThePickleJar #Neurodivergent #ADHD #Autism #AuDHD #Eleanor #FocusSprite #NDCommunity #PickleFriends #NeurodivergentLife #AttentionFiltering #ThirdYear #WeirdGirlsClub #NeurodivergentWomen Support the show

    Meet Eleanor - The Focus Sprite (and your attention to detail gifts)

  5. Aug 26

    Meet Millie - The Hyperfocus Dragon (and how to use your super power)

    Meet Millie. She is soft, lavender, and long, with iridescent silver spines and a glittering tail. And she has been lying in wait in your brain, probably since childhood, ready to lock onto something magnificent and not let go for five hours. Millie is the Hyperfocus Dragon. And she is the character I want you to stop apologizing for. If you have ever lost an entire afternoon to something you love, not because you were avoiding something else, not because you were being irresponsible, but because your brain locked in and the rest of the world simply ceased to exist...Millie was there. That was not a flaw. That was a dragon doing exactly what she was built to do. In this episode we talk about what hyperfocus actually is, why it is one of the most extraordinary features of the AuDHD brain, how to work with Millie rather than against her, and how Tonya personally manages her own hyperfocus so it works for her life rather than running it. In this episode: Meet Millie, the Hyperfocus Dragon, the fourth character in the Inside the Pickle Jar neighborhoodWhat hyperfocus actually is and what is happening neurologically when Millie locks inThe gift inside what everyone called a problem, why this is a genuine superpowerThe honest complication when Millie arrives uninvited on the wrong thing at the wrong timeWhat actually helps and working with Millie intentionally rather than being run by herPersonal examples from Tonya on how she manages her own hyperfocus in real lifeFREE RESOURCE If there is someone in your life who cannot understand why you can spend five hours on one thing and cannot start another — I made something that might help explain it. Four Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain A free guide that does the explaining for you. https://www.insidethepicklejar.com MILLIE'S STICKER Millie has a sticker in the Inside the Pickle Jar shop. She is soft purple with iridescent wings and she belongs wherever you do your deepest work. Start your collection at insidethepicklejar.com MISSED PREVIOUS EPISODES? Episode 6: Meet Emily - The Time Blindness Goblin https://www.buzzsprout.com/2378499/episodes/19588342-meet-emily-the-time-blindness-goblin-and-why-it-s-not-your-fault-you-re-late Episode 7: Meet Lily - The Executive Function Gremlin https://www.buzzsprout.com/2378499/episodes/19621364-you-re-not-lazy-meet-lily-the-executive-function-gremlin Episode 8: Meet Rosie - The Stress Monster https://www.buzzsprout.com/2378499/episodes/19654247-meet-rosie-the-stress-monster-and-why-you-need-rest Emily explains why you are always late. Lily explains why you cannot start. Rosie explains why you are exhausted before anything has even happened. Millie explains why you lost five hours to something magnificent and feel absolutely no regret about it. MEET THE REST OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD The Inside the Pickle Jar neighborhood has six characters, each one representing a real part of the neurodivergent experience: Emily - The Time Blindness GoblinLily - The Executive Function GremlinRosie - The Stress MonsterMillie - The Hyperfocus DragonEleanor - The Focus SpriteLittle T - The Inner Child ArchivistOne more character episode coming next. Subscribe so you do not miss her. CONNECT WITH TONYA 🥒 Grab something from the shop: https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com  📬 Get "4 Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain" (free): https://www.insidethepicklejar.com  💌 Join the Pen Pal Club: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com/the-jar/  🕸️ Website: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com & https://www.risingtidecoaching.org  🚇 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@insidethepicklejar_  📸 Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/tonya_weaver_coach  🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/tonyaweaver606  💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmweaver IF THIS EPISODE RESONATED Please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who has ever been told they have a problem with focus when really they just have a dragon. Reviews help other neurodivergent adults find the jar. Be gentle with yourself, pickle friend. I'll see you next time inside the jar. #InsideThePickleJar #Neurodivergent #ADHD #Autism #AuDHD #Hyperfocus #HyperfocusDragon #NDCommunity #PickleFriends #NeurodivergentLife #FlowState #Millie #LateIDiagnosis #NeurodivergentWomen Support the show

    Meet Millie - The Hyperfocus Dragon (and how to use your super power)

  6. Aug 19

    Meet Rosie - The Stress Monster (and why you need rest)

    Meet Rosie. She is big, fluffy, lavender, and she has been in your nervous system your entire life. Rosie is the Stress Monster and she represents something that I think is one of the least understood and most exhausting aspects of the neurodivergent experience. Not stress in the way most people mean it. Not overwhelm from a difficult circumstance. The state of a nervous system that is running at a higher baseline level of activation than most people around you...all day, every day, without anyone being able to see it. She is the reason ordinary days feel extraordinary. She is the reason you come home from a completely normal day and have nothing left. She is the reason rest is not optional and quiet is not dramatic and alone time is not antisocial. And she has been with you the whole time. In this episode: Meet Rosie, the Stress Monster - the third character in the Inside the Pickle Jar neighborhoodWhat nervous system dysregulation actually means and what is happening physiologicallyWhy the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system matter for neurodivergent people specificallyWhat a day with Rosie in it actually looks like from the moment you wake up to the moment you collapseThe mask Rosie wears and why her cost is invisible even to the people closest to youWhat actually helps — reducing activation and building in recovery time that your nervous system actually needs FREE RESOURCE If there is someone in your life who cannot understand why you seem overwhelmed when nothing hard is happening, I made something that might help start that conversation. Four Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain A free guide that does the explaining for you. https://www.insidethepicklejar.com ROSIE'S STICKER Rosie has a sticker in the Inside the Pickle Jar shop. She is big and fuzzy and purple and she belongs on whatever surface you look at most often. Start your collection at https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com MISSED PREVIOUS EPISODES? Episode 6: Meet Emily — The Time Blindness Goblin https://www.buzzsprout.com/2378499/episodes/19588342 Episode 7: Meet Lily — The Executive Function Gremlin https://www.buzzsprout.com/2378499/episodes/19621364 Emily explains why you are always late. Lily explains why you cannot start. Rosie explains why you are exhausted before anything has even happened yet. MEET THE REST OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD The Inside the Pickle Jar neighborhood has six characters, each one representing a real part of the neurodivergent experience: Emily - The Time Blindness GoblinLily - The Executive Function GremlinRosie - The Stress MonsterMillie - The Hyperfocus DragonEleanor - The Focus SpriteLittle T - The Inner Child ArchivistEach character has their own episode. Subscribe so you do not miss them. CONNECT WITH TONYA 🥒 Grab something from the shop: https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com  📬 Get "4 Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain" (free): https://www.insidethepicklejar.com  💌 Join the Pen Pal Club: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com/the-jar/  🕸️ Website: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com & https://www.risingtidecoaching.org  🚇 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@insidethepicklejar_   📸 Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/tonya_weaver_coach  🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/tonyaweaver606  💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmweaver IF THIS EPISODE RESONATED Please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear that their exhaustion is real and it has a name. Reviews help other neurodivergent adults find the jar. Be gentle with yourself, pickle friend. I'll see you next time inside the jar. #InsideThePickleJar #Neurodivergent #ADHD #Autism #AuDHD #NervousSystem #StressMonster #NDCommunity #PickleFriends #NeurodivergentLife #SensoryProcessing #NervousSystemRegulation #LateDiagnosis Support the show

    Meet Rosie - The Stress Monster (and why you need rest)

  7. Aug 12

    You’re Not Lazy: Meet Lily - The Executive Function Gremlin

    Meet Lily. She is small, pink, and absolutely scrambling your start button right now. Lily is the Executive Function Gremlin, and she represents one of the most misunderstood and most unfairly judged experiences in the neurodivergent world. The gap between knowing what you need to do and actually being able to start it. If you have ever been called lazy or called yourself lazy because you could not begin a task that you genuinely wanted to do, this episode is going to change the story you have been telling yourself. It was never laziness. It was Lily. In this episode: Meet Lily, the Executive Function Gremlin, the second character in the Inside the Pickle Jar neighborhoodWhat executive function actually is and why it is often called the brain's CEOWhy starting is the hardest part and why the difficulty has nothing to do with how much you careThe inconsistency that makes neurodivergent people look like they are selective with their effort and what is actually happening neurologicallyThe guilt that lives in the gap between knowing and startingWhat actually helps - strategies that work with Lily rather than against her FREE RESOURCE If someone in your life has ever called what Lily does laziness, and you have been trying to explain that it is not, I made something that might help start that conversation. Four Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain A free guide that does the explaining for you. https://www.insidethepicklejar.com LILY'S STICKER Lily has a sticker in the Inside the Pickle Jar shop. She is small and pink and she is waiting for your water bottle, your laptop, or your journal. Start your collection at https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com MEET THE REST OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD The Inside the Pickle Jar neighborhood has six characters, each one representing a real part of the neurodivergent experience: Emily - The Time Blindness GoblinLily - The Executive Function GremlinRosie - The Stress MonsterMillie - The Hyperfocus DragonEleanor - The Focus SpriteLittle T - The Inner Child ArchivistEach character has their own episode. Subscribe so you do not miss them. CONNECT WITH TONYA 🥒 Grab something from the shop: https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com  📬 Get "4 Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain" (free): https://www.insidethepicklejar.com  💌 Join the Pen Pal Club: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com/the-jar/  🕸️ Website: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com & https://www.risingtidecoaching.org  🚇 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TonyaWeaverCoach  📸 Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/tonya_weaver_coach  🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/tonyaweaver606  💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmweaver IF THIS EPISODE RESONATED Please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who has ever been called lazy when they were anything but. Reviews help other neurodivergent adults find the jar. Be gentle with yourself, pickle friend. I'll see you next time inside the jar. Support the show

    You’re Not Lazy: Meet Lily - The Executive Function Gremlin

  8. Aug 5

    Meet Emily - The Time Blindness Goblin (and Why It's Not Your Fault You're Late)

    Meet Emily. She is a small mint green goblin with a broken hourglass, and she has been living in your brain probably since childhood - stretching time, shrinking it, making transitions arrive without warning, and throwing emotional glitter over the whole experience. If you have ever been told that you are late because you do not care, or that you would be on time if you just tried harder, this episode is going to change the way you understand yourself. Time blindness is not a character flaw. It is not laziness. It is not disrespect. It is a brain that experiences time in a fundamentally different way and today we are giving that experience a name, a face, and a trading card. In this episode: Meet Emily, the Time Blindness Goblin: the first character in the Inside the Pickle Jar neighborhoodWhat time blindness actually is and what is happening neurologicallyWhy the now/not-now framework explains so much about how your brain experiences timeWhat it looks like in real daily life and why the apology you give when you are late is genuine even when nobody believes itThe shame that compounds the original problem and why it does not helpWhat actually helps...strategies that work with your brain rather than against it FREE RESOURCE If you are struggling to explain your experience to the people in your life, I made something for you. Four Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain A free guide that does the explaining for you. https://www.insidethepicklejar.com EMILY'S TRADING CARD Emily is the first character in the Inside the Pickle Jar trading card series. She is custom designed, hand crafted, and now available in the shop. Start collecting the originals. https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com MEET THE REST OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD Emily is just the beginning. The Inside the Pickle Jar neighborhood has six characters, each one representing a real part of the neurodivergent experience: Emily - The Time Blindness GoblinLily - The Executive Function GremlinRosie - The Stress MonsterMillie - The Hyperfocus DragonEleanor - The Focus SpriteLittle T - The Inner Child Archivist (seen in the five-part series on masking)Each character has their own episode coming up. Subscribe so you do not miss them. CONNECT WITH TONYA 🥒 Grab something from the shop: https://shop.insidethepicklejar.com  📬 Get "4 Things I Need the People in My Life to Know About My Brain" (free): https://www.insidethepicklejar.com  💌 Join the Pen Pal Club: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com/the-jar/  🕸️ Website: https://www.insidethepicklejar.com & https://www.risingtidecoaching.org  🚇 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TonyaWeaverCoach  📸 Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/tonya_weaver_coach  🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/tonyaweaver606  💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmweaver IF THIS EPISODE RESONATED Please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who has ever been told they do not care because they are always late. Reviews help other neurodivergent adults find the jar. Be gentle with yourself, pickle friend. I'll see you next time inside the jar. Support the show

    Meet Emily - The Time Blindness Goblin (and Why It's Not Your Fault You're Late)
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Welcome to ‘Inside the Pickle Jar,’ the only podcast where being in a pickle is a good thing! It’s your go-to audio feast for all things neurodivergent. We’re like the crunchy dill to your sandwich, adding flavor to the way you see the world. Each episode, we’ll dive headfirst into the kaleidoscope of neurodivergent life. Are you neurodivergent, or just neurocurious? A partner in crime to someone who marches to the beat of their own drum? Or maybe you’re a boss trying to decode the enigma of inclusive leadership? Buckle up, because this podcast is the Rosetta Stone for cracking the code of neurodiversity. Join us for expert chit-chats, heartwarming tales, and pro tips that are more useful than a Swiss Army knife. ‘Inside the Pickle Jar’ is here to jazz up your journey to stronger connections, one episode at a time. So, tune in and turn up the volume while we transform the way you perceive neurodiversity and unlock the potential in every unique mind.

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