About

The SEN Edit started quietly, at our kitchen table, in the mess and noise of real family life. We’re a SEN family. Neurodivergence runs through our home in all its beautiful, complicated, exhausting glory. For years, we juggled school emails, sensory meltdowns, tooth brushing battles, forms that never quite captured who our children really are, and late night Google searches that always seemed to end in more overwhelm than answers.

I kept thinking, where is the space that feels honest about all of this. Not just the highlight reel of perfect strategies, but the reality of socks that feel “wrong” for the fifth morning in a row, the child who can hold it together all day at school then falls apart in the car, the parent crying in the supermarket car park because it’s all just a bit too much.

The SEN Edit grew out of that gap. Out of the feeling of being seen and understood on the rare occasions I stumbled into a conversation with another neurodivergent parent and we both said, “Oh thank goodness, it is not just us.”

For a long time I carried quiet frustration about how much guesswork was involved in supporting our kids. Sensory toys that arrived and never got touched. Fidgets that were too noisy for the classroom. “Calming” products that caused more overwhelm. Every purchase felt like a gamble with money and hope, and every fail added to the pile of guilt. It was clear we did not just need more stuff. We needed community, shared experience and a way to separate what truly helps from what just looks good on a website.

That’s where the idea for The SEN Edit took shape. A calm corner of the internet where neurodivergent people and their families could come as they are. No judgement, no “one right way”, no pretending it’s easy. Just real stories, practical ideas and gentle reminders that you are not failing, you’re navigating a world that was not built with your needs in mind.

Right now, The SEN Edit is first and foremost a community. A place to feel safe, to laugh, to vent, to share the tiny wins that only another SEN parent or neurodivergent person would understand. A space to find your calm and your people, even if it is just for a few minutes scrolling Instagram on a hard day.

Looking ahead, our hope is to grow The SEN Edit into more than a community space. We want to build a carefully curated edit of sensory and supportive products that genuinely help. Items that have been tried, tested and honestly reviewed by the community, for the community. No overwhelming pages of options, just a small, thoughtful selection that has already passed the “real life” test in SEN households like yours and ours.

The SEN Edit exists because no one should have to face this journey feeling isolated, confused or “too much”. We’re building the kind of space we wish we had found sooner. A place where neurodivergent people and the ones who love them are not an afterthought. They are the whole point.