Breaking barriers. Building confidence. Creating community.

Break the Barriers is a neurodiversity-affirming community project dedicated to empowering neurodivergent people through connection, mentoring, and self-advocacy.

Founded by Sara — an autistic and ADHD educator with over 20 years of experience — Break the Barriers was created in response to the systemic challenges neurodivergent individuals face within education and wider society.

We are grounded in the social model of disability, recognising that people are disabled not by their differences, but by environments, systems, and attitudes that fail to accommodate them.

Our guiding principle is simple:
‘Nothing about us, without us.’