I Need My Space (But I Like You Too!)

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. * Eliza Fricker, Author and Illustrator of Can’t Not Won’t *

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.

* Catherine Asta, Psychotherapist, Podcaster and Author of Still Living & Rediscovered *
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. * Gabrielle Nicole Pharms, Award-winning writer and AuDHD advocate *
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! * Vera von de Greent, Author of the comic Autism - Myths and Legends *
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. * Dr Emma Offord, Clinical Psychologist and Founder of Divergent Life *
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. * Robin Ince, Author of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal *
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. * Joe Wells, Comedian and writer *
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. * Annie Ridout, Author, journalist and poet *
Alice Bramhill’s three-circle relationship framework gave me precise, shame-free vocabulary for something I’ve been practising intuitively for years - and her neurotype matching concept finally explained why my inner circle works when so many other connections don’t. For those of us who have always known that depth beats breadth, and that social situations where genuine exchange isn’t possible are simply beside the point, this book doesn’t teach you who you are. It gives you the language to say it. – Alex Kronstein, autistic activist, filmmaker, producer, entrepreneur, and neuro-affirming respite practitioner

Alice Bramhill

Alice Bramhill is an interpersonal psychotherapist and a late-diagnosed AuDHD woman. With 30 years of clinical experience and lived experience, she helps neurodivergent adults finally feel understood.