The Qrkiez Blog
Discover diverse voices of the neurodivergent community.
If you’re interested in sharing your stories as a neurodiverse person, a parent or family member, a professional or mentor, an ally, or anyone else, please contact us.
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...
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...
Neurodivergent Representation in Children’s Media
For neurodivergent people and caregivers raising neurodivergent children, watching the first few episodes of the new PBS Kids television show Carl the Collector may feel revelatory. The series, created by popular children’s author and illustrator Zachariah OHora,...
Untapping Executive Function Potential
How do neurodivergent students transition from the structured environment of high school to the less structured worlds of college and the workplace? QRKIEZ CEO Veena Aiyer interviews Brandon Slade, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Untapped Learning, which...
Coaching Thoughtful Thinkers
My journey has been one of self-discovery, challenge, and empowerment. I used to be the straight-A student, perfect rule-follower, and all-around perfectionist. I thought my adult life would follow a similar path. However, as I gained more freedom and faced fewer...
Navigating College Choices for the Neurodivergent
Eric Endlich is the Founder of Top College Consultants, which helps neurodivergent students navigate the challenges of selecting colleges, applying, and taking their first steps into higher education. In this interview with QRKIEZ CEO Veena Aiyer, Eric discusses his...
