I'm Sarah. ADHD made sense of a lot of things, eventually.

I was always busy. My head rarely switched off. I could have several things happening at once and somehow keep moving between them, then disappear completely into one piece of work for hours because nothing else existed until it was finished.

From the outside, I was functioning.

I built a career, ran a business, raised a family and got things done. What wasn't obvious was how much scaffolding was sitting underneath all of that. Alarms. Reminders. Lists. Deadlines. Systems I'd created for myself without ever really questioning why I seemed to need them quite so much.

I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until my late 40s.

Suddenly, a lot of things I'd spent decades treating as unrelated parts of my personality belonged to the same picture. It didn't change who I was. It changed how I understood who I'd always been.

Getting a diagnosis wasn't simply a matter of recognising myself in a list of ADHD traits. There was an actual process to navigate.

I've now experienced that system from more than one direction. First as an adult trying to understand my own ADHD and going through diagnosis later in life. Then as a parent supporting my son with his ADHD.

Those experiences are part of the reason I started building these sites. There is plenty of ADHD information online. Finding the answer you actually need, at the point you need it, is much harder. I wanted to make that bit easier.

There is another part of my background behind these sites. I've spent around 15 years working in web development and digital through Creative Sauce London. A large part of that work has involved taking something complicated and making it usable: information, processes, systems, data and the journeys people have to take through them.

ADHD information has exactly that problem. The answer might exist somewhere. But if it is buried in a huge page, written in language you don't understand, spread across five different organisations or doesn't tell you what to do next, technically having access to the information isn't much help.

So I approach these guides much as I approach the systems I've spent years building. What does somebody need to know right now? What comes next? And how can we make that easier to understand?

My experience helps me understand the questions people are likely to have. It doesn't get to replace the evidence.

• For factual information, I go back to authoritative sources such as the NHS, NICE and relevant government guidance, alongside established ADHD organisations where appropriate.
• Where rules, pathways or guidance can change, guides are dated and reviewed as things move.
• Where I'm talking about something I've personally experienced, I make that clear.
• When something needs a doctor, psychiatrist or another qualified professional, that's where I'll point you.

I'd rather tell you the limit of what a guide can answer than make the answer sound more certain than it really is.

ADHD isn't one question. Someone wondering whether they might have ADHD needs something very different from someone who has already been diagnosed. A parent trying to understand school support is dealing with a completely different system again.

That's why I've built separate resources around different parts of the journey rather than trying to cram everything into one enormous website. They are connected, but each one has a specific job.

The aim across all of them is the same: help you understand where you are, what your options are and what comes next.