likeu started as a professional networking platform called SlowBurn. The idea was simple: neurodivergent people deserve better than LinkedIn. A place where being ADHD or autistic or dyslexic isn't something you work around — it's something people get.

People signed up. They told us what they carry and what they were looking for. But then something happened that changed everything.

Rono, the founder, made a two-minute reel about being groomed as a teenager — part of her advocacy work in grooming awareness. Half a million people watched it. Over a thousand left comments — survivors who'd never said it out loud, parents terrified they'd miss the signs, people who just wanted to say: me too, and I don't know what to do with it.

The most vulnerable things people had ever written — posted in a place where anyone could see them, forever.

The platform didn't hold it. None of them do.

And that's when the pattern became obvious. The autistic adult searching for friends who won't judge their shutdown days. The person with long COVID who lost their entire social life. The survivor who can't talk about it the way people talk about other awful things. The parent carrying grief no one around them understands.

Same isolation. Different shape.

Facebook groups are too public. Reddit is too chaotic. Therapy is one-to-one. There's no space built for people carrying something they can't easily talk about — where trust is the design, not just a policy.

That's what likeu became. Not just networking. Not just support. A place where you tell Dora what you carry, and she finds the people who carry something you'd recognize — and gives you a quiet room to discover what you share.

We're building this with the people who need it. Every conversation shapes what comes next.

likeu is founded by someone who lived this — and who's building it with you, not for you.