About Us

The Moment began in early 2024, launched initially to tell one person's story about an adult diagnosis of Autism and ADHD, it's quickly grown to a team of writers from different backgrounds and experiences talking about their own journeys.

It's an important shout to mention that this is not a medical website. Nor does anything written by anyone constitute advice.

This website is focused on individual stories and everyone's experiences are different. The Moment is here to explore the nuance of how things felt for a person around adult diagnosis and everything that goes with it. We've tried to bring as wide a mix of possible of lived experience. We've more writers in the pipeline and we're always looking more to make this a more inclusive site, so if you're interested, please get in touch.

If you'd like to get in touch with anyone from the team, our details are below.

John Ferris - The Moment

Ex-coder and Newspaper editor who has spent the past decade in the startup landscape helping founders around the world to grow and scale their businesses. Food lover. Writer. AuDHD-er.

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Rebecca Dempsey - The Moment

Proud AuDHD-er, passionate about sharing my experience with late diagnosis and life as a neurodivergent. Product manager for a medical device manufacturer and lover of meditation and mindfulness.

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Graeme Shaw - The Moment

Dad, husband, ADHDer - trying to live out my true authentic self. Insta: @graemeshaw88

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Dr Laura Hull - The Moment

Dr Laura Hull is a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on supporting the mental health of neurodivergent people across the lifespan, with particular interest in masking.

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Paula Bradshaw - The Moment

Paula is the Health spokesperson for the Alliance Party as well as MLA for South Belfast and was first elected in 2016.

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Conor Johnston - The Moment

Conor Johnston is an (occasional) old-fashioned blogger who has written about culture, film, identity and - latterly - neurodivergence/ mental health for various NI sites. Late discovery Autistic.

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Anonymous - The Moment

This account is made up of multiple different people of different genders and ethnicities who don’t feel comfortable sharing their real identity.

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