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I Need My Space (But I Like You Too!)
The essential guide for neurodivergent adults who crave authentic connection, practical boundary-setting, and self-compassion – without apology or burnout. Discover the art of thriving in relationships in ways that work for you.
Have you ever left a party feeling completely drained while everyone else seemed energised? Do you long to be alone more, but struggle to say no to others because you feel guilty? Do you find yourself people-pleasing, or masking, or feeling that everyone else has a map to the social landscape that you don’t? If the answer to these questions is a resounding yes, I Need My Space (But I Like You Too!) by neurodivergent psychotherapist Alice Bramhill is for you.
In this affirming and accessible guide, Alice explores how to navigate relationships – with colleagues, family, friends and romantic partners – as a neurodivergent adult. Expect practical tools for sensory and relationship mapping, setting and maintaining boundaries, and attachment styles through a neurodivergent lens. Packed with stories drawn from real life, this guide supports you in letting go of shame and guilt and building a fulfilling social life tailored to your neurodivergent self.
Have you ever left a party feeling completely drained while everyone else seemed energised? Do you long to be alone more, but struggle to say no to others because you feel guilty? Do you find yourself people-pleasing, or masking, or feeling that everyone else has a map to the social landscape that you don’t? If the answer to these questions is a resounding yes, I Need My Space (But I Like You Too!) by neurodivergent psychotherapist Alice Bramhill is for you.
In this affirming and accessible guide, Alice explores how to navigate relationships – with colleagues, family, friends and romantic partners – as a neurodivergent adult. Expect practical tools for sensory and relationship mapping, setting and maintaining boundaries, and attachment styles through a neurodivergent lens. Packed with stories drawn from real life, this guide supports you in letting go of shame and guilt and building a fulfilling social life tailored to your neurodivergent self.
Reviews
This book is probably the most comprehensive one I've found on how we can better understand our inner selves and in turn, our relationships. It's filled with real, relatable support that feels both relevant and needed. It holds that space throughout as we begin to rediscover something many of us have lost-ourselves.
A much-needed relational roadmap for the neurodivergent experience.
Alice has written the book that has been missing. More than a collection of tools and strategies, this is a deeply thoughtful synthesis of clinical expertise and lived experience, brought together in a way that makes complex relational dynamics feel both understandable and actionable. I Need My Space (But I Like You Too!) offers a powerful reframe of what meaningful and authentic connection can look and feel like. This is the book the neurodivergent community has been waiting for.
I Need My Space (But I Like You Too!) by Alice Bramhill is a sharp, affirming guide to connection for neurodivergent readers - challenging tired myths and offering a generous blueprint for building friendships that are mutual, fulfilling, and authentic.
The ultimate relationship guide for neurodivergent people. Drawing on lived experience, it provides neuro-friendly tools, such as detective-style analysis, tracking and mapping systems, management plans, and of course research-based references. A must-read!
Alice Bramhill brings a beautifully neuroaffirming lens to relationships, boundaries and self understanding. I especially loved the focus on social energy, sensory reality and nervous system safety. A practical, neuroaffirming book that says connection should not cost you yourself.
This is a very effective and enlightening user's manual for the neurodivergent mind. It will empower the neurodivergent and enlighten those around us who might often be baffled. Interesting and useful.
An informative, compassionate, and empowering book. Alice brings together clinical expertise, lived experience and academic theory to create an accessible and practical guide to relationships which I would recommend to all neurodivergent people.
This book is a beautiful, insightful guide to our relationships but also, to better understanding ourselves and our neurodivergent minds. Alice writes with deep knowledge, experience and compassion. A must-read for every neurodivergent adult - diagnosed, self-diagnosed, wondering - and anyone who is curious about how it feels to be neurodivergent.