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Helping late-identified autistic adults create a life that actually works - without the burnout 🧡
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Late-diagnosed autistic and advocate for neurodivergent adults

28/05/2026

The more I learn about masking, the more I realise it’s not just about behaviours.

It can shape how we experience relationships, belonging, safety, criticism, connection, and even our sense of self.

A lot of us became so focused on getting things “right” socially that we stopped noticing the cost of constantly monitoring ourselves.

I’m curious what this has looked like for you.

Does connection ever feel harder to trust than criticism?

Does belonging ever feel conditional?

And if you’re starting to explore your own masking patterns, comment QUIZ and I’ll send you my masking style quiz. It’s been helping people put words to patterns they’ve carried for years without fully understanding them.

25/05/2026

For a lot of late-diagnosed autistic people, masking becomes so automatic that we don’t just lose track of our needs…

we lose track of what feels safe to trust.

Including connection, belonging, and positive feedback.

One of the biggest things I’ve been noticing lately is how different masking styles shape the way we move through relationships, work, parenting, and even how we interpret other people’s reactions to us.

That’s a big part of why I created the masking style quiz.

Because I want to help people start noticing the patterns they may have spent years surviving inside of.

Comment QUIZ and I’ll send it to you.

22/05/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how differently my brain processes criticism versus connection.

Not just emotionally, but almost as if one feels “more believable” than the other.

It’s interesting how many survival strategies can quietly shape the way we interpret other people’s reactions to us.

Curious if anyone else relates to this experience of struggling to fully trust positive feedback, even when you logically know people mean it.

17/05/2026

Comment QUIZ to get the link straight to your inbox.

15/05/2026

For years, I thought this meant something was wrong with me.

That I was inflexible.
Overreacting.
Making things harder than they needed to be.

But so much of “getting stuck” was my autistic brain struggling to suddenly shift gears after already preparing for something different.

And the more I talk about this, the more late diagnosed autistic women tell me:
“Wait… this happens to you too?”

That’s why I share this stuff.

Comment and tell me what getting “stuck” looks like for you. And share this so we can normalize experiences that so many of us thought we were alone in.

12/05/2026

One of the things people have told me after taking the masking style quiz is how seen they felt by it.

Not because it labels you.
But because it helps put words to experiences you may have spent decades trying to explain away.

A lot of us got good at masking so early that we stopped noticing we were even doing it.

The quiz is meant to help you start seeing the pattern:

* where your energy is going
* how you adapt yourself around others
* and what all that coping might be costing you

That awareness can be powerful.

Comment quiz and I’ll send it to you.

01/05/2026

That feeling of doing everything “right” and still ending up exhausted is hard to explain.

I remember thinking if I could just stay on top of things, keep showing up, push through one more time… it would finally feel easier

But it didn’t
Because the problem wasn’t effort

It was how much of myself I was leaving out of the equation.
When you’re constantly overriding your needs your nervous system keeps the score.

And eventually it stops cooperating the way it used to.

If this is where you are right now there’s a reason it feels this hard and there is a way forward that doesn’t require you to keep pushing past yourself.

If you want a place to start, I made a short quiz to help you make sense of your patterns

Comment QUIZ and I’ll send it to you 🧡

28/04/2026

For a long time, I thought something was “wrong with me” on the days I felt off.

Low energy. Snappy. Everything harder.
No clear reason.

Now I see it differently.

Sometimes that “off” feeling is my body trying to tell me something… just not in a way that’s easy to recognize.

Not all pain shows up as pain.

If this hits close to home, comment and let me know.

25/04/2026

Ever been so exhausted that no matter how much sleep you got, it didn’t make a difference?

Me too.

I tried meditation.
Baths.
Taking time off.

Nothing touched it.

The exhaustion just… stayed.

Then I started learning about masking.

The people pleasing.
Mirroring.
Constantly scanning.
Replaying conversations over and over.

I hadn’t realised how much energy that was taking.

No wonder I was exhausted.

I’m still learning how to notice it and let some of it go.

It takes time to even see it.

That’s why I created a short masking quiz.

It helps you spot your patterns so you can start supporting yourself differently.

Comment QUIZ and I’ll send you the link.

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