Our story

NerdyADHD.org was not founded from a distance. It was founded from inside the labyrinth.

Dr. Benjamin J. Royer holds a PhD in Human Ecology from Cornell University. He has ADHD. He has advanced heart failure and has been listed for a heart transplant. He has been tethered to a home IV milrinone pump while trying to maintain a functioning life in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He has navigated the precise bureaucratic architecture — prior authorizations, insurance appeals, medication shortages, provider bias, and the thousand small failures of a system that was not built for brains like his — that this organization was built to document and dismantle.

NerdyADHD.org emerged from the recognition that possessing a diagnosis of ADHD offers legal protections that most people with ADHD never successfully access, and that the healthcare system designed to serve them is structurally misaligned with how their neurology operates. That gap is not incidental. It is measurable. And it is addressable.

The organization’s mission sits at the intersection of lived experience advocacy and evidence-based healthcare navigation support — producing educational content, advocacy materials, and community support resources specifically designed in neurodivergent-accessible formats. Plain language. Visually organized. Actionable. Built for the cognitive profiles of the people they serve.

Teaching, for Dr. Royer, is not a credential. It is survival — and the decision no one else should feel alone. We are better together.

Why “Nerdy”?

Because nerdy is a reclaimed identity. Because the neurodivergent people who built this organization, and the community it serves, are not broken versions of neurotypical people. They are people whose intense, focused, pattern-seeking minds have been told, repeatedly, that they are the problem. They are not the problem. The systems are the problem. And nerdy people, given the right tools and platforms, are extraordinarily effective at taking systems apart and building better ones.

That is what NerdyADHD.org is here to do.

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