The Weighted Blanket

Claire
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The Weighted Blanket is a podcast for neurodivergent people and the families who love them — warm, honest and built entirely from lived experience. Hosted by Claire, a mum of three diagnosed with ADHD at 36, navigating autism, AuDHD, sensory processing disorder and a PDA profile across her family. This isn't a clinical space. It's a real one. Every episode covers what it actually feels like — diagnoses and waiting lists, EHCP battles, school meetings, masking, burnout and the NHS. And alongside the hard stuff, the joy. The moments our children floor us. The humour that gets you through. The community that makes it lighter. We also talk about change. Because the systems failing neurodivergent families need to be better — and this community is going to be part of making that happen. You are not broken. You are not alone. The blanket is wide enough. New episodes every week. Join our community: https://the-weighted-blanket.kit.com/a94e837f2d Email: hello@theweightedblanket.co.uk

Episodes

  1. 4d ago

    What 36 Years Without a Diagnosis Actually Feels Like

    I was 36 years old when someone finally told me my brain was different. Not broken. Not difficult. Not strange — even though strange was the word I'd quietly carried about myself for as long as I could remember. Just different. And I cried. Not because I was sad. Because I'd spent 36 years working twice as hard as everyone around me just to appear like I was keeping up. And it turned out there had always been a reason. In this episode I talk about what the late ADHD diagnosis actually felt like — the process, the appointment, the moment the doctor said "you're not broken." The elation that came first. And the significant low that came after — the one nobody warns you about. I talk about the identity question I'm still sitting with: what is my actual self, and what did I build because I felt like I had to? About the Ellie Middleton book that's helping me figure that out. About the guilt on the days when I can't get into anything. About titration. About what's actually changed — and what hasn't. And about the particular experience of feeling like the odd one in every room — long before I had any idea why. This one is for the late-diagnosed. For the people who always felt slightly off the frequency. For the ones who are sitting with a piece of paper that explains everything — and still trying to figure out what to do with it. 🎙️ Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033hbR3h5qo6TD3WxWF8FL 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weighted-blanket 👥 Join our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1000143112417292/ 🔗 Everything else: https://linktr.ee/theweightedblanket 📧 hello@theweightedblanket.co.uk You are not alone. 🤍

    13 min

  2. Jun 2

    Burnout Doesn't Look Like Falling Apart — It Looks Like Superwoman

    I lost fourteen kilograms in six months. Not because I was trying to. Because my body was the only part of me willing to say something was wrong. I was being called Superwoman. And every single time someone said it, I felt the weight of it land. Because that's what compliments do when you're performing. They raise the floor. They tell you that this — this exhausted, crumbling, hollow version of keeping it together — is what people expect now. This episode is about what ADHD burnout actually looks like. Not the falling apart version. The Superwoman version. The one nobody sees coming because it looks, from the outside, like thriving. I talk about the fourteen kilograms. The IBS. The chronic headaches I convinced myself were a brain tumour. The moment I ended up in tears with my director after a meeting. The coach who asked me whether I was teaching my children that hard work gets you far — or that burnout is the price we pay. And where I am now. Which is in recovery. Signed off. In CBT. Still figuring it out. This one is for anyone who has ever been called Superwoman and felt worse for it. 🎙️ Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033hbR3h5qo6TD3WxWF8FL 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weighted-blanket 👥 Join our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1000143112417292/ 🔗 Everything else: https://linktr.ee/theweightedblanket 📧 hello@theweightedblanket.co.uk You are not alone. 🤍

    13 min

  3. May 26

    RSD: The Part of ADHD Nobody Warned Me About

    If you have ADHD and you've ever been called too sensitive, too emotional, too much — this episode is for you. Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. RSD. It's one of the most common and least talked about parts of ADHD — and for around 30% of people with ADHD, it's the most impairing symptom of all. Not the focus issues. Not the time blindness. The emotional pain. I've just come back from seeing Alex Partridge talk about RSD live. And I've been thinking about it ever since. Because RSD shaped so much of my life before I even knew it had a name. In this episode I talk about what RSD actually is, what it cost me — the relationships I cut, the work meetings I cried after, the guitar my husband played for twenty minutes longer than he said he would — and what actually helps. Because knowing the name changes everything. You are not too sensitive. You never were. 🤍 🎙️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033hbR3h5qo6TD3WxWF8FL 🍎 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weighted-blanket 👥 Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1000143112417292/ 🔗 Everything else: https://linktr.ee/theweightedblanket 📧 hello@theweightedblanket.co.uk

    12 min

  4. May 19

    Why I Built a Safe Space When I Couldn't Find One

    I was thirty-six years old when someone finally told me my brain was different. Not broken. Just different. In this first episode I want to tell you who I am and why I built The Weighted Blanket — not the polished version, the real one. Because if we're going to build something honest together, it has to start here. I talk about my ADHD diagnosis at 36, what thirty-six years without knowing actually cost me, my children's neurodivergent journeys — autism, AuDHD, SPD and a PDA profile — the school meetings, the suspensions, the waiting lists. And the moment I sat in a school meeting and thought: I have to build this. This is my story. I hope it sounds a little like yours. 🎙️ Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts 👥 Join our community: https://the-weighted-blanket.kit.com/a94e837f2d 💬 Facebook: The Weighted Blanket Community 📧 hello@theweightedblanket.co.uk You are not broken. You are not alone. The blanket is wide enough. 🤍

    11 min

  5. Trailer

    The Weighted Blanket — Trailer

    Welcome to The Weighted Blanket. 🤍 This is a podcast and community for neurodivergent people and the families who love them. I'm Claire — a mum of three, diagnosed with ADHD at 36, navigating autism, AuDHD, sensory processing disorder and a PDA profile across my family. I built this because I couldn't find a space that felt warm enough to be honest in — and honest enough to actually help. Here we talk about all of it. Diagnoses and waiting lists. EHCP battles. The NHS. Masking and burnout. What it feels like to be a neurodivergent adult who spent decades not knowing. The hard days and the funny days and the moments that floor you completely. And we talk about change. Because warmth without action only takes us so far. You are not broken. You are not alone. The blanket is wide enough. 🎙️ Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. 👥 Join our community: https://the-weighted-blanket.kit.com/a94e837f2d 💬 Find us on Facebook: The Weighted Blanket Community 📧 hello@theweightedblanket.co.uk

    3 min

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The Weighted Blanket is a podcast for neurodivergent people and the families who love them — warm, honest and built entirely from lived experience. Hosted by Claire, a mum of three diagnosed with ADHD at 36, navigating autism, AuDHD, sensory processing disorder and a PDA profile across her family. This isn't a clinical space. It's a real one. Every episode covers what it actually feels like — diagnoses and waiting lists, EHCP battles, school meetings, masking, burnout and the NHS. And alongside the hard stuff, the joy. The moments our children floor us. The humour that gets you through. The community that makes it lighter. We also talk about change. Because the systems failing neurodivergent families need to be better — and this community is going to be part of making that happen. You are not broken. You are not alone. The blanket is wide enough. New episodes every week. Join our community: https://the-weighted-blanket.kit.com/a94e837f2d Email: hello@theweightedblanket.co.uk

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  • Creator
    Claire
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 The Weighted Blanket
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