welcome to adhd pirates
There is a lot of information about ADHD and neurodiversity. What is often missing is a way to make sense of it in real situations.
Many adults are left navigating long waits, unclear pathways, and conflicting explanations. They may be managing on the outside, but things feel inconsistent, effortful, or difficult to sustain.
ADHD Pirates is designed to work in that space.
Everything here is shaped by work across groups, workplaces, and lived experience, including frontline and organisational contexts. The focus is on how things actually play out over time, including where understanding does not translate into action, and where things shift under pressure, fatigue, or changing circumstances.
The focus is on supporting you to make sense of what you are seeing, notice patterns in how things work over time, understand your options, and decide what is relevant in your situation.
Before you dive in
ADHD Pirates is designed to support understanding and orientation, not provide direct intervention.
We do not offer one to one services, clinical advice, or crisis support. This is intentional.
The focus here is on helping you explore what fits your situation and decide your own next steps, rather than following fixed guidance.
What We Offer
ADHD Groups
ADHD Tools & Resources
A curated hub to help you understand ADHD and navigate the range of information, tools, and support available. Not everything will fit, and that is expected. The aim is to help you work out what is useful, and what is not.
FOR EMPLOYEES
Support for making sense of work when things feel unclear or difficult to sustain. Includes practical guides, such as Access to Work, to help you understand your options and take a first step where needed.
FOR EMPLOYERS & HR
Practical guidance and short, accessible guides for supporting staff in real workplace conditions. Designed to give a clear place to start, without needing specialist training or consultancy, and without assuming situations are straightforward.
Articles
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Latest Articles and insights
The Workers Missing from the ADHD Conversation
We’re pleased to share this piece from Jamie Gordon, a neurodiversity advocate, workshop facilitator and Employment Advisor within NHS Talking Therapies. Alongside founding the Reading ADHD Group, Jamie has spent years working across hospitality, retail and...
Working memory and ADHD: why life feels harder than it should
Ever forgotten where you put your car keys moments after setting them down? Walked into a room and suddenly wondered, “Why did I come in here?” Or met someone new, heard their name, and forgotten it seconds later? These moments happen to everyone. But for many adults...
Thinking Differently, Filtered Out. Why systems reward familiarity over insight
This article reflects on how organisations, institutions, and recruitment systems tend to respond to difference in practice, rather than how difference is experienced internally. It focuses on how systems decide what counts as legitimate experience, and how people who...