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Hosted by Claire De Oliveira · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 13 episodes
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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: <a href="https://the-weighted-blanket.kit.com/a94e837f2d"
Claire De Oliveira hosts The Weighted Blanket, a kids show with 13 episodes published.
When Kate's youngest was five years old, the school removed her fidget toy. She let herself back into the building, climbed on the teacher's desk, and took it back. And somehow — she was the problem. That's where Kate Je
For most of her life, Hannah Wells believed the things she struggled with were caused by anxiety. Then, while researching autistic children for her master’s degree, she began recognising her own experiences on every page
I got called a drama queen for years, in a job I was genuinely good at. This week I tell the story of how I earned that reputation — the promotion that vanished, the Beyoncé strut, "you may never see me again" — and what
There are things we think we have filed away. Old experiences. Old shame. Old fear. Old versions of ourselves we thought we had moved on from. But sometimes, through therapy, diagnosis, or a moment of stillness, that dra
Geoff spent 34 years not knowing why his brain worked the way it did. He was not the stereotypical hyperactive child. He was inattentive, masking, trying to fit in, and quietly carrying the emotional weight of undiagnose
Many neurodivergent adults struggle to find words for big, complex feelings. For some of us, questions like “How do you feel?” can feel impossible to answer — not because we do not feel deeply, but because the words are
Have you ever been told your child is stubborn , strong-willed , or defiant ? So was mine. In this episode of The Weighted Blanket , I share our family's journey into understanding the PDA Profile (Pervasive Drive for Au
I want to tell you about my birthday. My youngest had just been given a recorder. My middle son wanted one too and wasn't okay about that. My eldest wanted to play battleships. I was cooking dinner, doing the cake, welco
When my son was two years old, I gave him a book about dinosaurs — one of those Usborne lift-the-flap books with really obscure species in it. By the time he was two and three months old, he knew every single one. During
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 dif
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 fe
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 fo
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 versio
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 proc
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