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 […]
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
AuDHD in women: why autism and ADHD are so often recognised after 40 Read More »
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
Hidden symptoms: why autistic women are often missed by GPs until midlife Read More »
Your brain is the central hub for everything you do – memory, focus, emotional balance, decision-making, even metabolism and how you age. But like every organ, it bears the wear and tear of daily life. Cognitive decline doesn’t usually arrive all at once; instead, it creeps in over decades of tiny choices – from how
Take charge of your brain health, the B.R.A.I.N way Read More »
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
Hormones and ADHD: what changes during perimenopause and menopause? Read More »
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,
Neurodivergence and pregnancy: what to expect before, during and after Read More »
Intention is a beautiful thing. It’s hopeful, future-facing and full of promise. But intention on its own? She’s a bit of a dreamer. She needs discipline as her steady, grounded partner if anything is actually going to happen. This realisation landed with a gentle thud for me recently, on what was supposed to be a very well-structured
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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
Brain fog, overwhelm and focus struggles in midlife – is it ADHD, menopause, or both? Read More »
I heard something recently that genuinely made me stop in my tracks. Until 1993, women weren’t required to be included in medical research in the US. Nineteen. Ninety. Three. I was alive. Many of you reading this were alive. This wasn’t ancient history. And while the UK didn’t completely exclude women, our systems took
The lack of research into women’s health Read More »
This is a question many women carry quietly, often with a layer of shame attached. Why am I struggling more now?Why do things that I used to cope with feel unbearable?Have I lost my resilience? If you’re autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, or beginning to wonder whether you might be, menopause can feel like the point
Does menopause make neurodivergence worse? Read More »
