A picture book that helps children

understand their own brilliant brain.

Written from lived experience, grounded in neuroscience — a simple, accessible story sharing an inner experience of PDA.

  • A catalyst for conversation - regardless of whether a PDA profile has been formally identified

  • Neuroscience informed + Neurodiversity Affirming

  • For children, parents, teachers, school counsellors & allied health professionals

$12.99 AUD — instant PDF download

A little peek inside the e-book

Simple words. Clear illustrations. A story that meets children — and the adults supporting them — exactly where they are. Opening the door to conversations that can change everything.

HAVE YOU EVER STRUGGLED TO EXPLAIN PDA TO SOMEONE?

Me too

You're not alone.

I'm a social worker and PDA educator who has spent years immersed in the PDA world — professionally and as a parent of PDA kids. I live and breathe this experience.

And I still find it one of the hardest things to explain!!

Not because I don't understand it — but because PDA is complex, nuanced and deeply personal.

Finding words that feel simple, honest and non-pathologising, in the middle of a school meeting, clinical appointment or a conversation with a family member who means well?

That's a whole other challenge.

'A Story about my brain' was born out of struggling with this - it was an attempt to find words that capture the actual experience of being a PDAer.

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☻✌︎︎ WE KNEW WE WERE ONTO SOMETHING WHEN MY SON SAID

MID-STORY

"This is my brain!!"

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☻✌︎︎ MEET THE AUTHOR

Sarah Middleton

Sarah Middleton is a trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming social worker, educator and Mum who has spent years learning alongside the children in her life — professionally and personally.

She founded Brilliant Little Gems with the belief that every individual carries an inner brilliance within them, that is uniquely their own.

Her work is driven by a commitment to creating spaces, conversations and resources that help people reconnect with that brilliance, especially when the world has made it hard to feel it.

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Kind Words From Readers

I really loved the book! You were so intentional creating it – the energy comes across to the readers!

Alana, Speech Pathologist

Everyone needs a copy of the book 'A story about my brain' — it is simple and makes so much sense. My kids both recognised their brains in this story.

Penny, Parent + Specialist Educator

About this book

Shifting the lens, from the outside - in

This isn't a fact sheet, a how-to guide or the definitive description of the PDA experience. IIt's an opportunity for our brilliant little gems to feel seen and a catalyst for them to be heard.

IIt's an accessible way to begin a conversation with a child about their unique experience. As it turns out, it's also become a wonderful resource for helping the teachers, health professionals, school well-being staff, family and friends to shift from their observations & how they make meaning of them; towards understanding the inner experience of a young person.

IIt's underpinned by neuroscience and written from lived experience. Several children who have read it have seen themselves in its pages. That moment of recognition — this is my brain — can be genuinely transformative for a child who has spent their life feeling like something is wrong with them.