{"id":1,"date":"2026-06-30T15:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:26:02","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"So it begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a late diagnosed guy in his late 40&#8217;s that now knows he&#8217;s Autistic and ADHD. I&#8217;m starting this to partly as a cathartic outlet and partly to help share my journey and what I learn.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I did any blogging but I have been doing a lot of journaling lately, so why not do both. Obviously journals are a little bit more brutally honest, but I am to keep this quite open.<\/p>\n<p>My name is Paul and I&#8217;m now 49 years old, learning at the age of 48 that I was neurodivergent. So many of those struggles over the year are now falling into place after diagnosis. Many mistakes I can&#8217;t take back but at-least I can start to understand them more and where possible try to make amends.<\/p>\n<p>This blog will serve as both my journey but also the opportunity to share learnings, of course what works for me won&#8217;t necessarily work for others. For now I&#8217;ve disabled comments as the RSD aspect wouldn&#8217;t be able to handle that just now, I&#8217;ll maybe revisit this in the future.<\/p>\n<p>But lets just get moving for now, I have a few journal entries to review and a blog post from last week to move over from medium.com as I felt it was better on here.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy my rants along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a late diagnosed guy in his late 40&#8217;s that now knows he&#8217;s Autistic and ADHD. I&#8217;m starting this to partly as a cathartic outlet and partly to help share my journey and what I learn. It&#8217;s been a while since I did any blogging but I have been doing a lot of journaling lately, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/?p=1\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So it begins&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trenchesandtorches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}