by Rebecca Antrim | Jun 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Understanding alexithymia in Autism/ADHD/AuDHD is a reality that many late diagnosed women grapple with every single day. Imagine you are standing in the middle of a room where a loud alarm is blaring, but you can’t see where the sound is coming from, and you...
by Rebecca Antrim | Jun 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Why Being Perceived Feels Like a Threat is something that probably resonates with you if you have spent most of your life feeling like you are performing on a stage without a script. For late-diagnosed women in the UK, the simple act of existing in public (or even...
by Rebecca Antrim | Jun 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Deciding on a diagnostic assessment is one of the most significant crossroads you might ever face as an adult woman who is porntially autistic, ADHD or AuDHD. You’ve probably spent years, decades, even, feeling like you’re playing a game of life where everyone else...
by Rebecca Antrim | May 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
The social reset: making friends as an ND woman is hard. It is a journey that usually begins with a massive realisation. For years, you probably navigated the world by wearing a carefully constructed mask. You laughed at the right times, mirrored the body language of...
by Rebecca Antrim | May 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
Neurodivergent assertiveness and finding your voice after late diagnosis isn’t easy. Assertiveness often feels like a foreign language when you have spent your entire life trying to fit into a world that wasn’t designed for your brain. For many...
by Rebecca Antrim | May 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
AuDHD Survival: the cost of hyper-organisation as the scaffolding or strategy that holds a late-diagnosed woman’s life together. On the outside, you look like the person who has it all figured out – the one with the colour-coded lists, the three different synced...
by Rebecca Antrim | May 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
People pleasing is often framed as a personality quirk or a “nicety” taken too far, but for those of us who discovered our Autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD brains later in life, we know it feels much deeper than that. It isn’t just about...
by Rebecca Antrim | Apr 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
If you are a late-diagnosed autistic/ADHD/AuDHD woman currently staring at a wall because the thought of emptying the dishwasher feels like climbing a mountain, you might be experiencing neurodivergent burnout. You’ve probably spent years, decades even, being told...
by Rebecca Antrim | Apr 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
The AuDHD paradox is the exhausting internal tug-of-war between your autistic need for structure and your ADHD craving for novelty, often leading to a cycle of routine versus boredom that feels impossible to escape. If you are a late-diagnosed woman in the UK, you are...
by Rebecca Antrim | Apr 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
Have you ever spent an afternoon at a friend’s birthday or a “quick” catch-up at a pub, only to come home and feel like you’ve been hit by a freight train? You aren’t just tired; your limbs feel like lead, your brain is a fog of half-finished...
