I’m Christine Doyle — a late-identified Autistic & ADHD (AuDHD) woman, podcast host, speaker, trainer, and community builder
Through my 1:1 Post-Identification Companion Sessions, the Wild Women Community, and my podcast Unlearning Autism, I create spaces for reflection, connection, and unlearning. My focus is supporting Autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD women after late discovery — exploring identity, masking, sensory worlds, burnout, relationships, and belonging.
It’s not about having all the answers. It’s about asking better questions, validating lived truths, and walking alongside others as they make sense of who they are.
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Abs and I talk about the neurodivergent need for accuracy in words and expression.
Can you relate? Oh I can!!
Episode 2 ‘Translating the World through Sound with Abigail Ward’ is now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music
🔗 Link in bio
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Sitting in mass yesterday the priest spoke about the word “repent.”
He said it comes from Latin meaning “to think anew.”
My first reaction was almost a sigh — because as an AuDHD mind, I can be so drawn to revisiting the past, trying to make sense of it, trying to solve it.
I think many neurodivergent people relate to this: the brain is a powerful problem-solver, seeking solutions in patterns, and it naturally goes back to what it knows — old moments, old conversations, old questions that can’t ever be fully resolved now.
But that isn’t always healing. Often, it’s rumination.
What struck me was his next point:
“To think anew doesn’t mean visiting the past again. It means leaving it be, and beginning new thinking about your life today.”
That felt like permission. Or a steering back on course. To stop. Stop trying to solve everything. To radically and intentionally leave it unsolved.
Just to return to the present — and live from what is here now.
Not easy when my wandering mind almost always rests on an unresolved question, but a reminder that no more answers lie there. And my life today is waiting for this attention
Does this resonate with you?
#audhd #patternseeking #audhdwomen #busybrain
If this resonates, the full conversation is waiting for you in the episode.
Link in bio to listen.
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My own AuDHD mind dysregulates me so much that any external stimulation often feels like more than I can take
As an AuDHDer,
my mind can distract me all on its own
So the outside world —
noise, input, expectation —
often can feel too much
What can be mistaken for stress, disinterest, grumpiness or feeling anxious …..
Is internal overstimulation
When my mind is already full —
the outside world on top of it
can dysregulate me.
This can mean…
When I’m reversing, I need the radio off
When I’m focusing, background noise can stir up rage
Because when there’s too much sound, my thoughts get louder — not quieter
Soft lighting helps me think clearly
Whereas too much movement around me pulls me out of thought
At times like this even phone calls can feel too immediate
Voice notes give breathing space — time to process, time to find words
At the end of a long day
Questions can feel like a demand.
And being expected to respond — quickly, clearly, on the spot —
can be more than I’m able for
This isn’t all the time
In the right environment — when life is running in cruise control
I feel deeply regulated.
The “too much” comes
after long days,
too many demands at once,
or too much input layered together
Less isn’t limitation. It’s how I take care of myself.
Does any of this sound like you?
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Episode 2 is live 🤸
My first guest episode, with the producer of Unlearning Autism, Abigail Ward.
Today’s conversation is about acknowledging and honouring the way we are — our pace, our depth, and our natural way of working.
In the society we live in, that way of being isn’t always easily rewarded.
And still, for many of us, the turning point comes when we choose to live and work in line with our own rhythm and neurotype, rather than measuring ourselves against what we are not.
This quote stayed with me.
🎧 Listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
#unlearningautism #unlearning
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There’s a part of unmasking that I hadn’t felt — until I did. It’s not the relief. It’s the vulnerability.
This week I finished up a tricky fix on my podcast and went for a pedicure I hadn’t realised would be a sensory nightmare — never again! What I thought would be a treat had me wriggling and squirming, desperate for it to end. Self care for some, sensory hell for me!
The appointment ran over and I had to dash straight to the dentist.
By the time I got there, I had nothing left.
Lying back in the chair, imagining the drill working on my teeth — its high pitch screaming through my ears — I knew I had to say something.
“I just want you to know I’m really sensitive,” I said quietly.
“Oh, today?” she asked.
“No — it’s always been like this. I know you need to do your job, but I have to let you know how sensitive this is for me.”
“Okay,” she said, “we’ll go as gently as we can.”
The hygienist leaned over, handed me a tissue, and squeezed my hand — and only then did I realise the tears were streaming down my face.
I was proud of myself for naming my need.
I felt supported and deeply grateful for the care I was met with.
But the vulnerability that came with asking — that moment of being seen — caught me off guard.
Unmasking isn’t just about authenticity.
It’s about letting yourself be known — and that is tough.
After a lifetime of holding it in, pushing through, and not letting others see the cracks, allowing myself to be comforted felt unfamiliar.
There is relief in not carrying it in silence —
and a quiet grief for all time that I thought I had to.
Difference is often spoken about as though it lives inside a person.
Even when the language shifts from deficit to difference, it can still quietly place the weight of adapting on the same shoulders.
As an Autist, that’s often meant learning how to:
make eye contact — but not too much,
speak — but not in ways that make others uncomfortable,
be myself — but only within narrow limits.
Neurodiversity asks for something more honest than that.
Not “you are different”,
but “we are different” — and that difference matters.
This is part of the wider work I do with late-identified Autistic women, many of whom have spent years carrying the cost of difference alone, long before they had language for it.
Understanding doesn’t remove difference.
It allows and appreciates it.
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Unlearning Autism Episode 1 is live.
This is a short welcome episode - laying the ground for the conversations to come.
Available now on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.
Link in bio
