Money, Safety & Self-Trust Session Two

Rethinking financial wellbeing for neurodivergent adults led by Emeka Ajogbe (Prosperiium)

You are not bad with money.

You may simply have been working with systems that were never designed for the way your brain works.

On 19 May, we’re running Session 02 of Money, Safety & Self-Trust—our five-part workshop series for neurodivergent adults. This session explores a quieter kind of masking the version that shows up in financial life:

• pretending you understood something you didn’t,
• saying yes when you meant no,
• avoiding money conversations because shame arrived first.

Using anonymous polling, we’ll surface patterns many people carry privately, allowing collective insight to make these experiences visible without requiring personal disclosure.

Together, we’ll explore new ways of understanding financial behaviour:

• 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 how I function.
• I didn’t fail at money management…..I may never have been given tools that worked for me.

This is about replacing shame with understanding, and building language that supports self-trust, agency, and a more hopeful path forward.

If you’ve carried the thought “I’m just bad with money” for longer than you can remember, this session may offer a different lens.