Weather Inside

Weather Inside is a poetic interoception framework designed to help neurodivergent people identify emotional, sensory, and nervous system states through metaphor, imagery, physical sensation, and emotionally resonant language because a shocking amount of us grew up feeling like our bodies were haunted houses full of unlabeled alarms.

Why This Exists

People kept asking me how I felt and I kept realizing I genuinely did not know. Not because I lacked emotions, actually quite the opposite, but because my emotions arrived all at once like a flock of birds hitting a greenhouse window at full speed.

Examples

Instead of “I am stressed,” someone might say: “My brain feels staticky and fluorescent.” Instead of “I am approaching burnout,” someone might say: “My thoughts feel brittle and overcooked and every sound has edges.”

Field Notes

I think one of the reasons poetry matters so deeply to neurodivergent people is because metaphor bypasses the broken filing cabinet. Sometimes the nervous system cannot reach a clinical definition but it can absolutely understand “my soul feels like a browser with 48 tabs open and one of them is screaming.”