Category: Late Diagnosis & Self-Discovery
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Autistic Burnout or Depression? A Lifetime of Not Knowing
For years I couldn’t tell whether I was depressed or simply spent past what rest could reach. Here’s how I learnt to ask the difference.
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The Long Way to the Room — Getting Assessed for Autism and ADHD as an Adult, from the First Doubt to the Day After
What the adult autism and ADHD assessment is really like: how to find an assessor, what it costs in money, time and energy, how to prepare, and the day after.
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The Faults That Were Never Faults
My eldest would rub at a mistake until the page wore through. I had spent forty years calling the same thing in myself a flaw.
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The Weight I Cannot Put Down: Mothering from Inside the Same Neurotype
The diagnosis did not lift the guilt. It only changed its shape.
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The Silence Between Knowing and Writing: What Happened After My Late Autism Diagnosis
What happened after my late autism diagnosis: five months of silence, post-diagnosis depression, and the body-first way I processed grief before I could write again.
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I Didn’t Read Any Autism Books After My Diagnosis: What I Reached for Instead
After my late autism diagnosis, I didn’t reach for autism books. I returned to books from my palliative care career, about meaning and how to survive loss. The words hadn’t changed. I had.
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I Went In Expecting an ADHD Diagnosis. I Came Out With Autism: A Late Diagnosis Story
I booked an ADHD assessment. I came out with an autism diagnosis, and giftedness. The full story of my late neurodivergent assessment as an adult woman.
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The Demon Marks Were Always Mine: What K-Pop Demon Hunters Taught Me About Late Autism Diagnosis and Self-Acceptance
On receiving a late autism diagnosis at forty. The grief of finally understanding yourself, and what self-acceptance looks like after decades of not knowing.
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Why I Called It “Grow with Their Flow”: A Late-Diagnosed Autistic Mother’s Origin Story
How a blog name born from homeschooling burnout became a metaphor for late autism diagnosis, parenting neurodivergent children, and self-acceptance.
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When You Stop Pretending You Don’t Need Directions: What an Adult Autism and ADHD Assessment Actually Feels Like
What an adult autism and ADHD assessment actually feels like. The fear, the tests, the tears, and what shifts before the results arrive. A personal account.