Rethinking Financial Wellbeing for Neurodivergent Adults

🌈 Neurodiversity Pride Week 2026

Rethinking Financial Wellbeing for Neurodivergent Adults
Led by Emeka Ajogbe (Prosperiium)

“You are not bad with money.”

Many neurodivergent adults have spent years carrying stories about themselves that were never really true.
That they are irresponsible.
That they lack discipline.
That they cannot be trusted with finances.

But what if the issue was never a personal failing?
What if financial challenges were shaped by executive functioning differences, overwhelm, burnout, impulsivity, people-pleasing, inaccessible systems, or years of navigating a world not designed for the way your brain works?
As part of Neurodiversity Pride Week, this interactive workshop explores the relationship between money, self-trust, safety, and identity.
Using anonymous polling and shared reflection, we will explore experiences that many neurodivergent people carry privately:

• Pretending to understand financial information when you didn’t.
• Avoiding money conversations because shame arrived first.
• Saying yes when you meant no.
• Feeling judged by systems that were never built with neurodivergent people in mind.

Together, we will challenge common narratives and explore more compassionate alternatives:

• “I wasn’t bad with money. I was overwhelmed.”
• “That wasn’t irresponsibility. It may have been dysregulation, executive overload, or a system that didn’t fit.”
• “I didn’t fail at money management. I may never have been given tools that worked for me.”

Neurodiversity Pride is about more than celebrating difference. It is about creating environments where neurodivergent people can thrive with dignity, understanding, and self-determination.

📅 15 June 2026
🕢 19:30 CEST
📍 Online