The QRKIEZ Blog
Discover diverse voices of the neurodivergent community.
If you’re interested in your sharing your stories as a neurodiverse person, a parent or family member, a professional or mentor, an ally, or anyone else, please contact us.
Changes Coming to QRKIEZ!
Dear Friends of QRKIEZ, Thank you for being a part of our community! We want to inform you of some changes coming to our platform. After launching our beta version, we gained some insights and incorporated them into our plans. It became clear that a focus on...
Featured Resource: Association for Autism and Neurodiversity
The Association for Autism and Neurodiversity (AANE) is a nonprofit organization that has been supporting the autistic and neurodiverse community for over 25 years. Rooted in neurodiversity-affirming principles, AANE offers services and resources tailored to autistic...
Is Awareness Enough?
I was driving through a nearby town yesterday when I saw a police cruiser with a puzzle-piece bumper sticker for Autism Awareness Month. It warmed my heart to see that the village recognized autism enough to put a drop of money into stickers for their police units. Of...
Featured QuirkyPro: Margaret Burkes & Focus4Kids
As a parent, you want to do everything you can to help your child succeed. But it’s hard to be the best parent you can be when you’re taxed from managing your child's ADHD. Whether you’re overwhelmed from researching treatment options, frazzled by school phone calls,...
Featured QuirkyPro: Eric Endlich
Eric Endlich is the founder of Top College Consultants, which helps neurodivergent students across the U.S. apply and transition to college. He is also a neurodivergent parent and adult. You can connect with Eric and arrange a consultation on the QRKIEZ app. Here's...
Gathering Our Resources
Neurodivergent individuals and their families, allies, and support networks are always on the lookout for more information to help them navigate life and its challenges. To that end, QRKIEZ is proud to announce the launch of our new Resources for Neurodivergents, a...
My Journey with Self-Advocacy
For much of my life, self-advocacy felt overwhelming and foreign. As someone navigating life as a queer, partially blind, late-identified autistic-ADHDer with C-PTSD, asking for what I needed often felt like taking up too much space—a concept deeply tied to both my...
The Wait is Over – The QRKIEZ Beta is Live!
The public beta of QRKIEZ is finally available, and all are welcome to join! We're building the premiere community for the neurodivergent and their supporters. You can join QRKIEZ if you're: A person who identifies as neurodivergent A therapist, coach, or mentor to...
Finding Your Dream Career with Leah Brighton
Leah Brighton began her career as a Speech-Language Pathologist, and she uses her experience to help others, including neurodivergent people, develop their careers by getting noticed, building networks, and instilling the confidence they need to walk into an...
A Parent Helping Parents of Autistic Kids
Now here's a mission that QRKIEZ can get behind: parents of neurodivergent kids helping parents of neurodivergent kids. So when we learned about what Glenda Carnate and team are building at autism health, Inc., we knew it was a story to share. autism health is an app...