Christine Doyle is an educator, speaker, podcast host, and neurodiversity-affirming psychotherapist with 15 years’ experience specialising in the late-identified Autistic and AuDHD experience in women and AFAB adults.
Following her own late identification as AuDHD, Christine’s work increasingly shifted towards education, speaking, training, and identity integration, centring lived experience and nervous system understanding rather than deficit-based narratives.
Her work explores masking and burnout, sensory honesty, nervous system capacity, hormonal transitions, workplace inclusion, and the psychological impact of being missed in childhood.
Christine delivers speaking engagements, organisational training, webinars, and reflective educational spaces for individuals, professionals, and organisations.
She is the host of the Unlearning Autism podcast and founder of the Wild Women Community.
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These 1:1 offerings provide structured, reflective spaces for exploring neurodivergent identity, considering assessment, integrating late identification, or deepening understanding as someone supporting a neurodivergent adult.
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HormoneFULL, Not Hormonal is a narrative-led handbook exploring the impact of hormonal transitions on Autistic AFAB people across the lifespan. Grounded in the lived experiences of 101 Autistic AFAB adults, this book brings together verbatim reflections on puberty, menstruation, pregnancy and postpartum, perimenopause, and menopause — stages that are often poorly understood, minimised, or misattributed within both medical and mental health settings.
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Three years ago I discovered I’m AuDHD. I didn’t realise how much my life needed to change to allow me to breathe more easily. Identification was the start but integration is what I needed.
1. I used to live off ‘busy’, now I’m allergic. Early nights.
Sea swims. Walks. Less is definitely 100 times more.
2. I stopped asking “What’s wrong with me?” And started noticing: “What does my nervous system need?” My nervous system has become my guiding light.
3. I chose depth over numbers.
Fewer WhatsApp groups 😅
Fewer acquaintances, just a handful of people who feel like home 🥰
4. I trust myself more. I always knew how I experience the world is different to most. Now that I know why I have rebuilt self-trust.
Much less analysing, searching, outsourcing thanks be to God!!!
5. I stopped trying to fit into life.
I just let it go.
And started building a life that fits me.
What way has your life changed since identification?
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I’m delighted to be back behind the microphone and recording Season 2 of the Unlearning Autism podcast.
And in our break between seasons, something totally unexpected has happened … our podcast has continued to grow.
We have now reached over 6,000 downloads, with a regular audience of 2,000 listeners 🥳🩷🤸♀️
Thank you to everyone who has listened, shared episodes, recommended the podcast to others, and helped build this community. It means more than you know.
I’m also delighted to welcome @shopotavo as sponsor for the first three episodes of Season 2.
As we continues to record new amazing episodes, I would love to connect with businesses, brands and organisations who would like to be part of Unlearning Autism.
Whether your work directly supports neurodivergent people, or you simply value thoughtful conversations and would like your business to be associated with this growing community, I’d love to hear from you.
Season 2 will be with you soon 🥳🥳🥳
I’ll keep you posted,
Christine x
My instinct is always to apologise.
Not because I’m always wrong.
But because if you are in pain, it’s important to me that I acknowledge any part I may have played in that.
Not because I intended it. That’s not the point. Simply because your pain matters to me.
And over time I’ve realised that this says less about guilt, and more about connection. Because I feel safest with people who meet me there too. I don’t care that we had a misunderstanding, I care that we can meet each others pain without ego.
Shame is a sneaky fecker. Love this quote from Wayne Dyer.
Do you ever feel that it’s not that you were ever ‘too much’ but that often words are not nearly enough?
Understanding yourself is just the beginning … making sense of it all comes next.
I feel like I keep saying I don’t do this, I don’t do that .. and left scratching my head thinking how do I define what I do?!!
I tried to adjust therapy to be neuro-affirming but then I decided to turn it around … to just start with the late-identified person and think “what do they want” or more clearly “what did I need?”
Whilst I continue to draw on 15 years of professional experience, my focus today is not on helping people analyse themselves more deeply but on offering space for people to understand themselves more fully.
My work supports late-identified Autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults in making sense of who they are, how they arrived here, and how they might begin building a life that fits more comfortably and authentically.
I help people find language for experiences they have often carried alone for years.
I help people understand their nervous systems, recognise patterns that suddenly make sense through a neurodiversity-affirming lens, and connect with others who share similar experiences.
I believe understanding, language, community and connection can be profoundly powerful.
This work currently takes place through:
• The Unlearning Autism Podcast
• Speaking & Training
• Companion Sessions (a structured 4-session 1:1 integration process)
• AFTER KNOWING (a 3-day online integration space)
• Resources, guides and community spaces
Different people are seeking different levels of support at different stages of their journey.
But at the heart of all of my work is the same intention:
To offer space for people better understand themselves and make sense of what comes next.
Not therapy. Not anymore. Just me.
Christine x
I lost myself to my thoughts … I’m finally finding my way back to my body
This has changed my life and my work
Yesterday was a good day. The best. And none of that was random.
As an AuDHD person, I am a bottom-up processor - my feelings follow my energy. And I use this knowledge as my guide.
Yesterday started with a good night’s sleep. Then a gentle walk and a coffee with my ❤️. A sauna. Tennis with my family. Fresh air. Movement. Laughter. Connection.
And because I was already feeling good, I made a conscious decision to keep riding that wave and went for a sea swim.
This photo was taken afterwards.
And what strikes me looking at it is how uncomplicated the happiness feels.
Years ago, I wouldn’t have understood any of this. But late-identification has taught me to pay more attention. To notice what genuinely supports my nervous system.
After the swim I came home, had a long shower, did all my creams and potions, tidied my wardrobe and tackled a pile of ironing. For years I would have judged that. I would have told myself to stop tidying. What is wrong with you? You just can’t relax. You need to be kinder to yourself.
Now I understand that this, for me, is kindness. Organisation, sorting, categorising and creating systems regulate my nervous system like nothing else. In fact, a day without some kind of order just feels off, and is rarely a good day for me.
The day finished with a family meal, a cup of tea and an early night.
Nothing remarkable. And yet everything I ever wanted.
The more I understand my nervous system, the more intentional I become about how I spend my time. And strangely, the less I seem to need.
Not more excitement. Not more achievement.
Just the right people. The right pace. The right energy. A little movement. A little order. A little nature. A gentle ease.
The more I understand myself, the easier happiness is for me.
One of the biggest misconceptions about ADHD is that hyperactivity is something we should be able to see.
For many late-identified women, the hyperactivity wasn’t happening in their bodies. It was happening in their minds.
A constant internal movement.
A feeling of needing something.
Something new.
Something exciting.
Something soothing.
Something interesting.
Something that finally helps the mind settle.
Looking back, I can see this in so many women I know.
The woman who never stopped researching.
The woman who always had a new project.
The woman who couldn’t stop shopping.
The woman who drank to quiet her thoughts.
The woman who needed drama, intensity, movement or urgency to feel engaged.
The woman endlessly seeking answers through self-development, spirituality, courses, books and podcasts.
The woman like me.
Different behaviours.
Similar nervous system experience.
Not everyone will relate to every example.
But many ADHD women recognise the feeling underneath them all:
A mind that rarely felt still.
Did your ADHD hyperactivity show up externally, internally, or a bit of both?
