Many of the women I work with find themselves navigating a recent diagnosis or discovery of their neurodivergence while also learning to navigate perimenopause or menopause. ​ Each of those on its own can be overwhelming; dealing with both at the same time is even more challenging. ​​ It's clear that neurodivergent women often experience perimenopause and menopause differently in significant ways. The research on this is in the early stages, though, and reliable information

What a lot of people don't understand about masking is that while it presumably throws you a lifeline, it's quietly dragging you under. Those of us who are autistic, ADHD or AuDHD have been trained to believe that to succeed, we have to do it as somebody else. ---------------------- Because the world does not take well to people who blurt out what they honestly think. Your boss does not appreciate the fact that on some days, you'll be able to churn out a week's worth of work

Here’s what nobody wants to tell you about autistic burnout. It’s also what you think you don’t want to know. And what you really do need to know. Many autistic women are not able to return to their full-time corporate jobs post-recovery. The life you had before (and the one that maybe you’re still pushing yourself to maintain now) is the life that led you to burnout. It might not sustainable for you in the long term. Maybe at this point you still think it is. What often hap

If you’re looking for the standard definition of autistic burnout, here it is: heightened sensory sensitivities, pervasive exhaustion, and loss of skills, including things like executive function and sometimes even speech. All of that is true. And now do you want to know what the lived experience of autistic burnout feels like? When I was a kid, once in a while in autumn we would take my dad’s magnifying glass outside. We’d grab a leaf, then sit on the patio, using the magnif