Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Why Neurodivergent Retreats are Essential #ndexperience #ndcommunity #disneyretreat

3 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston, who has worked in neurodivergent advocacy for 25-30 years, says retreats are essential because they bridge deep disconnection within the community itself. Neurodivergent individuals, their spouses, and children often struggle to understand each other. The retreat filled her dissertation notebook with insights and gave her what she calls a core memory of why she does this work.

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So what did I learn? One, I got so much to add to my dissertation, people, like you wouldn't— like I filled, I filled the notebook. And of course it's a Mickey notebook, but I filled the notebook with all of my thoughts and everything that happened there. And it's going to be amazing. And it's a core memory. And this is why I do what I do. It reminded me, this is why I do what I do. I've been doing this longer than anybody else here because I've been doing a very, very long time. Almost 30 years. My husband reminded me of the other day. I say 25 years, my husband's like, no, 30. I'm like, nope, 25. Nope, 30. But it, it's why I do what I do. And it's why this is so important to do again, because something that I see in the neurodivergent world is so much disconnection. We're disconnected from the world. We're disconnected from each other. We're disconnected from our spouses and our children because they don't get us.