A Grove of Ashes and Aspens

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Being neurodivergent can be really weird, especially with paganism. Many pagans are neurodivergent in some capacity, and it can be very comforting to have people who understand that experience.

However, being neurodivergent can still make any sort of regularity with practice very complicated. Undiagnosed burnout is real, and that has a lot of potential to get in the way of setting up any sort of regularity in one’s practice.

I have ADHD, so that causes me issues with working memory and, especially when I have to do other things on any given day, a lack of energy from having to mask my symptoms. This makes doing anything related to my practice very hard, whether that be music, writing, or even just spending some time appreciating nature in whatever capacity I can in a city.

I don’t really have any advice I can pass on for this. I could say “just go outside,” but that’s not always possible or easy, especially in harsh weather conditions or in colder seasons like we often get here in Canada. There’s also the issue of disability (and yes, ADHD is a disability) or chronic illness, which can heavily impact someone’s mental and physical energy, as well as mobility and ability to do things outside. So any advice that I try to give for any kind of solution will only really help in a handful of cases and not really be feasible in a lot of others.

The point of all this is just a rant about how having a disability can be really frustrating within the context of paganism, and an acknowledgement that others have it way worse, and that their practice, whatever that looks like, is exactly what it needs to be. Having a disability or a chronic illness fucking sucks, and there is no one “correct” way to be a pagan, so whatever a person’s individual practice looks like is the correct way for them.