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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February 2018 was one of the most exciting and scariest months of my career. The social enterprise I worked for, Entrepreneurial Spark, was is in the process of being bought over by NatWest Group and I would officially become a member of the bank's staff. Or so I
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I fully appreciate the irony of an Austistic ADHDer writing an article telling neurotypicals to be better at picking up on social cues. I really do. But there's one really big one that comes in response to a commonly uttered phrase by people who feel awkward and don&
The Moment
After multiple missed calls and avoided voicemails, I finally called back about the results of the screening test I'd taken for ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). I'm already a small distance down the path to ADHD diagnosis, but I'd fought in my own head for
Welcome to The Moment, a website documenting my journey to neurodivergent diagnosis. I'm John Ferris. I've had an eclectic career (so far) ranging from a coder for a healthcare company to journalist and newspaper editor. I've been a podcaster (way back when that meant