About Tara Pili Vesa
About Me, Tara!
I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, at 28, after years of wondering why the things that seemed easy for everyone else took so much out of me. I'm also a mom raising neurodivergent kids, and an HR professional with over a decade of experience helping employees and managers work through the hard stuff.
This blog sits where those parts of my life meet.
I write about how ADHD shows up for me as a woman, how easily it gets missed in girls, and how, in adulthood, it can get tangled up with hormones, burnout, anxiety, and the pressure to keep it all together. I also write about ADHD at work: accommodations, self-advocacy, and what both employees and employers can do to make workplaces fit more kinds of brains.
I'm not a clinician. What I bring is lived experience and perspective from many sides of life. I know what it's like to need support in school and at work. I've shared my own journey and resources with other parents as they figure out how to advocate for their kids at school. And I know what it looks like when a company gets it right (or wrong) for its employees.
Here you'll find honest stories, practical tools, and guides you can use, whether you're figuring out your own diagnosis, preparing to ask for an accommodation, or trying to support someone in your family or on your team.
My hope is that by sharing my experiences, I can help you in some way, too.