Sharon Worth

Friendships and relationships in midlife with ADHD or autism – what changes and why

ADHD, Autism, Later life /

I’ve written before about my own experience of friendships that have fallen away. It was a very personal piece – you can read it HERE if you’re interested. This time, though, I want to explore friendships and relationships more broadly, looking a little deeper at hormones, neurodivergence, and how, for many women in midlife, these […]

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When neurodivergence lives in the body: the brain-body link we’re only just beginning to understand

ADHD, Autism /

If you’re autistic and/or ADHD and you’ve spent years collecting diagnoses that don’t seem connected – gut issues, dizziness, chronic pain, fatigue, inflammation – you’re not imagining patterns that aren’t there.   For a long time, neurodivergence was framed almost entirely as a “brain thing”. Yet the nervous system isn’t just the brain. It includes

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AuDHD in women: why autism and ADHD are so often recognised after 40

ADHD, Autism /

For many women, discovering the term AuDHD feels like someone has finally handed them a missing piece. Not a diagnosis they were searching for, necessarily, but a framework that explains why life has always felt intense, exhausting, contradictory, or strangely difficult to sustain – even when things looked fine from the outside.   If you’re

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Hidden symptoms: why autistic women are often missed by GPs until midlife

Autism /

Many autistic women don’t grow up thinking there is anything fundamentally different about them. Instead, they believe they are too sensitive, anxious, intense, rigid and emotional – or simply not coping as well as they should. By adulthood, these beliefs are often deeply ingrained. So when autism is finally mentioned in midlife, it can feel

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Hormones and ADHD: what changes during perimenopause and menopause?

ADHD, HRT, Reflection, Wellbeing /

For many women with ADHD, midlife doesn’t feel like a gentle transition. It’s more like something quietly, then suddenly, stops working. Focus becomes harder to hold. Emotional regulation feels more fragile. Overwhelm arrives faster and lingers longer. The coping strategies that once kept life ticking over no longer seem reliable. If you’ve found yourself wondering

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Neurodivergence and pregnancy: what to expect before, during and after

ADHD, Autism, Wellbeing /

For many neurodivergent women, pregnancy and early motherhood are remembered as intense, disorientating, and strangely lonely – even when they were deeply wanted experiences.   Some women only recognise their neurodivergence years later, looking back and realising how much they were coping without language, understanding or support. Others enter pregnancy already aware they are autistic,

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Brain fog, overwhelm and focus struggles in midlife – is it ADHD, menopause, or both?

ADHD, Wellbeing /

For many women in midlife, there’s a moment where things stop adding up.   You lose words mid-sentence. You walk into rooms and forget why. Tasks that once felt manageable now feel impossibly heavy. Your brain seems noisy, scattered, slow or overloaded – sometimes all at once.   And the question quietly forms: What is

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