Unlearning Autism: Neuro-affirming support for late-identified Autistic and AuDHD adults
Rediscover who you are—beyond the mask.
Support, clarity, and empowerment through 1:1 coaching, groups, self-paced programmes, and workplace consultancy.
Hi, I’m Christine.
I’m a late-identified Autistic and AuDHD Psychotherapist, Trainer and Consultant. I specialise in neuro-affirming support for Autistic adults, particularly those who’ve recently discovered their neurodivergence.
Whether you’re processing your late discovery or keen to learn more about what it is to be Autistic through a neuro-affirming perspective for yourself or others — this space is for you.
Would you like to learn more about being Autistic —but feel unsure where to begin?
Did a late discovery of neurodivergence leave you feeling a mixture of emotions from overwhelm to relief, confusion to grief?
Are you ready to understand your neurodivergent identity on your own terms?
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I offer both counselling psychotherapy and wellbeing life coaching to adults. My therapeutic style is compassion focused, goal oriented and positively challenging.
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You may have seen the claim that “92% of Autistic women meet criteria for PMDD.”
It’s a striking number — but it isn’t the whole truth.
That figure comes from a 2008 study with only 26 participants, all identified in childhood, all with learning disabilities, and with menstruation reported through carers.
Important? Yes. Definitive? No.
The reality is much more complex. Studies since then show rates of PMDD in Autistic AFABs ranging from 14% to 92%. And that wide gap is why I carried out my own large-scale study with 101 Autistic women, asking us directly about our lived experiences.
💡 The result is my handbook: Menstruation and the Autistic Experience — over 50 pages exploring PMS, PMDD, what the research says, what actually helps, and reflections from lived experience.
It’s time to move beyond scary headlines and start listening to Autistic voices.
📖 Find the full HormoneFULL not Hormonal series on my website now.
The words we are given shape us.
They sting, they silence, they isolate.
And yet, sometimes they hold glimmers —
tiny clues pointing to a truth beneath.
Fussy. Dramatic. Sensitive. Weird.
Oversharer. Self-absorbed. Space cadet.
Passionate. Stubborn. Hormonal.
For many late-identified people,
these words became the soundtrack of growing up.
They were not the whole story —
but they were signposts, overlooked for too long.
This is not to say that hearing these words means you are Autistic.
It is to say that for those of us who are,
they were echoes that made sense only later,
when the missing piece of identity was finally named.
Late discovery is often this:
translating the words that harmed us
into truths that honour us.
What words did you hear?
And what translations make more sense to you now?
🥳 It’s here!
My brand new ebook for Autistic adults is now live on my website.
Created with a neurodivergent-friendly design (ND considered font, spacing, layout as well as grounding pauses and clear visuals), this 55 page guide is filled with insights, reflections and support for navigating puberty as an Autist
Download your copy today via the link in my bio
Because we need better support .. and that is informed support
Sometimes words capture the spirit of Wild Women better than anything else.
This poem was written by one of our own - and it feels like us does’t it?
(And if you are new here, welcome - you might recognise yourself in these words too.
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Wild Women … a space for late-identified Autistic and AuDHD women and those exploring identification
DM for details 💕
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It was meant to be a year … but I’ve things to say … and research to share … oh and a podcast to launch … and a community to grow. So as much as it pains me … I’m breaking my word… and if any of this is of interest to you I’m glad I’m back and I’m glad you’re here 💜
So if you want to know more about any of this .. drop me a DM … let the unlearning continue!!
“Hormone-FULL not Hormonal Series,
Part 1 - Puberty and the Autistic Experience”.
This guide was created in response to the powerful voices of Autistic women who shared their puberty experiences — raw, confusing, and often unsupported.
This is a space to honour those stories and support the next generation in understanding their changing bodies and minds.
This is the first time that this number of lived experience voices has been captured, and this information is the first of its kind. The quantity and quality of the replies speaks to the need for the pubescent Autist to be more appropriately supported.
Available now on www.christinedoyle.ie
One of the most powerful aspects of a late identification is access to a language I never knew existed and offers me a way of understanding myself and my unanswered questions so perfectly
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It’s in the searching that I lose myself, and in the being that I am fully me.
Searching feels important and daily draws me in .. thinking, reflecting, pondering, figuring out .. hours and hours in my own head, sometimes happily, and sometimes not. Searching, for me, is a slippery slope to rumination.
Being .. nature, chatting, movement, playing, creating, stretching, listening, loving .. can feel frivolous and almost like “the icing on the cake” and “I’ll have that when I’ve it all figured out” .. but I can see how wrong this is.
Being is everything. Being feeds my soul and makes everything feel lighter and more accessible, it’s where I notice I am truly me, unencumbered and unrestrained.
Doubt free.
Thought free.
Filter free.
Free.
Me.
A me a life of searching will never bring.
