Most support for neurodivergent people starts with the wrong question: what do you need?

If you have ADHD, are autistic, or are AuDHD, you already know how that goes. You go blank. Not because you don’t know your own life, but because the question asks you to produce a diagnosis of yourself on the spot, in words, under mild social pressure — three things that are expensive for a neurodivergent brain at the best of times.

The Starting Point Profile asks something cheaper. Not what you need.

Where it grinds.

You work through an interactive SNIP™ Map in your browser, across the five domains of neurodivergence — Senses & Feelings, Thinking & Time, Body & Energy, People & Talking, Getting Things Done. You’re not rating yourself. You’re locating something. And by the end you have a picture of where your access narrows, in which domain, under which conditions.

That picture is the starting point. Everything after it — an accommodation, a redesign, a conversation with your manager, a coaching sprint — gets easier once you know where to point.

What’s included

• The interactive SNIP™ Map — runs in your browser, nothing to install, yours to come back to

• The Starting Point Worksheet — a fill-in sheet that turns the map into something you can act on, print, or hand to someone else

• Instant access, both files, digital delivery

The SNIP card decks are not part of this product. This is the map and the worksheet.

Why this works for neurodivergent brains

Three reasons, and they’re mechanical rather than motivational.

Locating is cheaper than describing. Interoception — the signal from inside your own body — is often faint, late, or arrives all at once as a wall instead of a warning. That makes “how am I doing” unanswerable in the moment, which is exactly when you’re asked. Pointing at a place on a map doesn’t need that signal. It needs recognition, and recognition is the one thing a neurodivergent brain tends to be fast at.

A baseline survives what memory doesn’t. With ADHD, time-blindness and working-memory load make “has this actually gotten better?” impossible to answer honestly six weeks later. You remember the last bad day, not the trend. A written starting point is the only version of you that doesn’t get overwritten.

Friction is specific, and specific is fixable. “I struggle with work” has no intervention attached to it. “Open-plan noise after 2pm, every day, in the Senses & Feelings domain” has four. Most accommodations fail because they were designed against a vague complaint instead of a located one.

Who this is for

Neurodivergent adults who want less friction in an ordinary week. Leaders and coaches who want to open a neuroinclusion conversation with something more useful than a personality type. Anyone preparing for a workplace accommodation conversation who needs to arrive with evidence instead of apology.

What this is not

Not a diagnosis, not a screener, not a clinical instrument. It tells you where things grind. It doesn’t tell you what you are.