Neurodivergent Empowered

Neurodivergent Empowered Multiple Global award-winning, autistic-led Registered NDIS provider.

Interest-based & neurodivergent-affirming embodying the National Autism Strategy by bridging PBS, Therapy & Community.
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15/12/2025

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Image reads: "We are holding deep grief for the innocent lives taken in the recent shooting.

As sensitives, as neurodivergent humans, as people who feel everything deeply, there are acts of violence that do not make sense to our nervous systems. And right now, we are not trying to make them make sense.

At Neurodivergent Empowered, we lead a Nest full of children, young people, and families who already carry a lot. Our priority is safety, steadiness, and care. We are choosing not to analyse, debate, or dissect this violence. We are choosing to mourn.

We stand with the Jewish and extended community in sorrow and solidarity.
We grieve the loss of life.
We grieve the fear this creates.
We grieve that this keeps happening at all.

If you are hurting, you are not weak.
If you are overwhelmed, that makes sense.
If you need to step back from the news to protect your nervous system, that is wisdom.

Our hearts are with you.
Always.

Neurodivergent Empowered"

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The image has a black background with coloured writing to represent how our differences can be beautiful if we work together instead of what has happened.

Thank you to Sunshine Coast Council and Libraries for asking us to partner with you to bring neurodivergent-affirming we...
11/12/2025

Thank you to Sunshine Coast Council and Libraries for asking us to partner with you to bring neurodivergent-affirming wellbeing into community spaces. 💜

🌈 Did you know…?Neurodivergent Empowered has been a proud member of the Welcome Here Project since July 2023.The Welcome...
10/12/2025

🌈 Did you know…?
Neurodivergent Empowered has been a proud member of the Welcome Here Project since July 2023.

The Welcome Here Project supports businesses and services across Australia to create environments that are visibly welcoming and inclusive of le***an, gay, bisexual, trans, q***r and gender-diverse communities.

As members, our spaces send a clear message:

You are safe here.
You are seen here.
You are celebrated here.

In a world where so many LGBTQ+ people still face misunderstanding, judgement or unsafe environments, visibility matters, and we are committed to doing our part.

Creating affirming spaces isn’t just a belief for us.
It’s something we practise every day.

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Together we can. I have been saying that for what seems like a long time as I believe it takes the collective... and to...
10/12/2025

Together we can.

I have been saying that for what seems like a long time as I believe it takes the collective... and today I honestly felt like we actually will. Together.

Sending big love.
- Tan xx












07/12/2025

In case you missed it! On 27 November 2025, the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit has launched an inquiry into the administration of the NDIS.

The review will look at how the NDIS National Disability Insurance Scheme manages financial sustainability risks, compliance with claiming requirements, and how the Agency measures and reports its performance.

It will also examine the regulatory role of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and the policy advice provided by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.

To learn more including how to make a submission visit - https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Public_Accounts_and_Audit/Inquiry_into_the_administration_of_the_National_Disability_Insurance_Scheme

06/12/2025

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Today we celebrated someone very special to all of us at the Nest.Our Volunteer of the Year was awarded to Dion, and it ...
04/12/2025

Today we celebrated someone very special to all of us at the Nest.

Our Volunteer of the Year was awarded to Dion, and it could not be more deserved. Dion also reached a huge milestone this week, receiving his DIGLETT certificate for surpassing 50 sessions at the Nest, along with his one-year service certificate. Both are remarkable achievements.

Dion is an enormous support to our team and to me personally. His versatility means he steps into whatever is needed on any given day, but everyone knows where his heart truly is: our guinea pigs. The level of care, gentleness, and consistency he offers them (and us) is something we treasure deeply.

Dion, thank you for everything you bring. You are a crucial part of our team, and we hope you always know how valued your presence is.

I am so freaking proud of you!!!

03/12/2025

Today is National Disability Day, and it feels especially fitting that our Junior Team member, Kianni, received a Special Commendation from the Governor at Government House yesterday as part of the Autism Queensland Awards.

Kianni is a powerful example of what becomes possible when a young person is loved, wanted, and supported for exactly who they are. She has done extraordinary things, including getting on stage during our global advocacy talks, even though speaking is one of the hardest things for her. At the Nest, she brings magic to our littlest participants through dolls, puppets, and make-believe worlds, and she now designs her own card, board, and virtual games for our teen groups as well.

Our Emerging Leaders Program is something I have personally funded, because I believe deeply in empowering the next generation with the skills, confidence, and community needed to do incredible things in the world while staying true to their authentic wiring. It’s where skill development meets self-acceptance, where spiky profiles are embraced, and where young people have a safe place to scrape their knees along the way.

Well done, Kianni. You have earned every bit of this recognition. And well done to Sprinkle for your nomination at these AQ Awards too. I have no doubt that you are both the first of many Emerging Leaders who will be recognised for the brilliance and impact you bring.

This is only the beginning.














This will be my one and only public post about this: The new NDIS Integrity & Safeguarding Bill is here, and providers n...
01/12/2025

This will be my one and only public post about this: The new NDIS Integrity & Safeguarding Bill is here, and providers need to understand the consequences.

The last year has taken a real toll on me, trying to empower and educate the community and NDIS clients for their own protection, only to discover that doing so publicly is not safe, especially as an autistic provider.

You have got this. Over to you xx

01/12/2025

I’ve spent my whole life seeing things before others, patterns, consequences, shifts, solutions, and it’s been both the biggest gift and the hardest burden.

When I was in my early 20s working in the federal government, I got called into HR because I was “impacting team morale” by getting too much work done too quickly.
Not because I was doing anything wrong.
Because my pace made other people uncomfortable.

That was my first real lesson in tall poppy syndrome:
If you think fast, feel fast, or work fast, people don’t celebrate you, they try to prune you back into the average.

So I learned to hide it.
To slow down.
To wait while everyone else caught up.
To make myself smaller so others didn’t feel threatened.

For every neuro-complex, fast-brain human who sees things early and feels things deeply, I know how exhausting the waiting game is. I know what it costs to decelerate yourself just to belong.

I don’t want that for us anymore.

I want a world where it’s safe to be as fast or slow as your nervous system truly is.
Where your natural pace isn’t punished.
Where tall poppy syndrome doesn’t cut brilliance down to size.
Where we stop calling sensitivity and pattern-recognition “too much” and start recognising them as gifts.

That’s my hope, that every one of us gets to exist at the speed we were built for, without apology.






As part of the 16 days of activism to end violence, I have had a version his conversation with many many autistic indivi...
30/11/2025

As part of the 16 days of activism to end violence, I have had a version his conversation with many many autistic individuals in different contexts... which made me ask, "is this an autistic thing?"

The capacity to build something from nothing because the existing world doesn't fit - that's autistic. The drive to create spaces, systems, frameworks when none exist for people like you.

The tendency to give without calculation - to pour in fully, believing that integrity will be met with integrity. Autistic people often operate from a justice-based relational model: I give honestly, therefore honesty will return. When it doesn't, the betrayal is existential, not just disappointing.

The pattern of being exploited by people who recognise your brilliance but resent your clarity. Autistic people are often used for their skills, their insight, their labour -and then discarded or turned on when they become inconvenient or too visible.

The experience of being punished for truth-telling. Autistic people often name things others would rather leave unnamed. That clarity is threatening to people who rely on ambiguity, politics, and social manoeuvring.

The deep wound of being visibly different and then blamed when that visibility attracts harm. As if existing authentically is a provocation.

The experience of building something sacred and watching others corrupt it — the politics, the alliances, the convenience-based loyalty.

But also no, this isn't only autistic:
- Anyone who builds sanctuaries can bleed in them.
- Anyone who gives freely can be exploited.
- Anyone who tells the truth in rooms that prefer lies can be punished.

Trauma survivors. Abuse survivors. Whistleblowers. Healers. Leaders. Artists.

Anyone who creates something real in a world that often rewards performance over substance. This letter is true from them too.

This is a human wound. But the way it found me was in the specific ways that autistic people who build, lead, and tell the truth get hurt.

With everything,
The one who sees you ❤️

29/11/2025

I have absolutely loved today!! Seeing our Jnrs walk in and the absolute delight in seeing each other.

Listening to their natural conversations about challenges at school, what Christmas is like when your parents are not together, what it’s like to have anxiety / depression and also what it’s like to witness someone you love have it. Hearing their advice to each other … “this is what I do”, “this works for me”, “don’t do this”.

And of course a safe space to talk about topics with passion that children are usually not invited to participate in… like debating their ban from social media, and hearing points raised like being concerned about having to use their face as ID and how that made them feel less safe.

All powerful perspectives from a generation who are existing in a different world to the one I was raised in. I always learn so much when I stay curious. Even “horror” is different now to when I was their age. No more defined by blood and gore like it was in my traumatising Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday 13th days.

I love days like today. It makes me realise that there is more to learn and more to be open about. And also what is possible when you are genuinely liked for who you are.

My happy place ❤️🌈❤️

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