One of the things I hear again and again from late-discovered AuDHD women is this: “I want connection so badly… but I also find people exhausting.” It’s a contradiction that can feel incredibly confusing, particularly for women discovering ADHD and autism in midlife, often during perimenopause or menopause, when coping strategies and masking can begin […]
Discover how time blindness affects ADHD and autistic adults, why perimenopause can make it worse, and how understanding your relationship with time can reduce self-blame.
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Explore how ADHD and rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) may evolve after menopause, and why self-awareness and challenging cognitive distortions can strengthen emotional resilience.
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Explore how ADHD, rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) and hormonal fluctuations interact, and learn practical strategies for recognising and challenging cognitive distortions.
Reflecting on how sobriety, menopause and understanding my neurodivergent brain helped me build a more authentic life I’ve been thinking recently about how strange life can be sometimes. If someone had told me ten years ago that choosing sobriety, navigating menopause and discovering that I am both ADHD and autistic would eventually lead me towards
How years of self-criticism can make it difficult to recognise what we’re doing well Since writing my previous article about discovering ADHD and autism during menopause, I’ve found myself reflecting on what came afterwards. Not the diagnoses themselves, but the process of beginning to see myself differently. Recently, I was asked a question that, on
How menopause became the beginning of understanding myself for the first time For much of my life, I thought I was simply struggling more than everyone else. I was the woman who held everything together on the outside whilst quietly battling chaos on the inside. I was raising children, working hard, supporting everyone around
Late-discovered ADHD and autism in menopause: My journey from survival to purpose Read More »
Hormones matter. ADHD matters too. Recently, an email from Dr Louise Newson landed in my inbox and stopped me in my tracks. In the email, she spoke about ADHD and hormones, sharing her concern that some women may be receiving ADHD diagnoses and being prescribed medication when changing hormone levels haven’t been properly considered
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Late diagnosis, societal expectations, and the uncomfortable question at the centre of the neurodiversity conversation We talk a lot about neurodivergence now: ADHD, autism, masking, burnout, sensory overload, executive dysfunction. And rightly so because awareness matters as does language and understanding ourselves. But lately, I’ve found myself circling a different question entirely: What even is
What does “neurotypical” actually mean? Read More »
Reflections on late-discovered ADHD and autism, motherhood, intergenerational trauma and healing within families. There’s something very strange about writing a book about your life. Not because of the writing itself, although that can be emotional enough, but because at some point the people who know you best begin reading parts of you that perhaps they’ve
