Let Them Eat Cake — Mini Manifesto 1

Let Them Eat Cake — Mini Manifesto 1 — The Split Brain

LET THEM EAT CAKE

Mini blasts of truth from a brain that refuses to be governed.

Mini Manifesto 1 — The Split Brain

I grew up with a brain that split itself in two —

not good and bad,

but rule breaker and rule follower,

reckless or afraid.

It felt like a personality split,

a tug of war inside my head

long before I knew the words

autism or ADHD.

Menopause hit me like a nail struck by a hammer.

My whole brain changed overnight,

its pathways gone — a lost sat nav.

That was the moment I realised

I wasn’t just dyslexic.

I was neurodiverse in ways

I had never been taught to see.

My brain wasn’t “irregular”;

it was the north and south pole in one place —

poles apart,

a constant internal fight for right.

It was simply mine.

About the Author

Alison is a menopausal, neurodiverse maximalist documenting the chaos of hormones with clarity, humour, and zero shrinking. She writes what her brain feels — unfiltered, ungovernable, and defiantly alive.

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