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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

A little behind-the-scenes update, because I’d rather tell you directly than have you find out later.I’ve been quietly b...
19/06/2026

A little behind-the-scenes update, because I’d rather tell you directly than have you find out later.

I’ve been quietly building something: a coaching program designed specifically for late-identified autistic adults who are tired of holding everything together and want support building a life that actually fits them.

It’s not weekly video calls. It’s not a workbook you complete alone either. Each week you’d get a guided reflection prompt, respond in your own time and your own way (typed, voice note, whatever works), and I read everything and respond with real coaching. Once a month, we check in properly, your format: Zoom, audio, or written.

If your exhaustion comes from years of performing for other people, the last thing you need is one more video call asking you to perform wellness on schedule. So this isn’t built that way.

When it opens, I’m only taking 5 founding members at £97/month ($125/month), locked in for as long as you stay.

Why the limit? It’s genuinely the caseload I can give real, thoughtful attention to, and I’d rather keep it small and do it properly than grow it past what I can actually hold well.

If this sounds like something you’ve been needing, you can join the waitlist now (link in comments) and I’ll make sure you’re one of the first to know the moment it opens.

No pressure either way. I just didn’t want anyone who needs this to miss it. 🧡

18/06/2026

For a long time, I thought the goal was to become easier for other people.

More flexible.
More social.
Less sensitive.
Less particular.
Less me.

Many late-diagnosed autistic adults become experts at adapting to what everyone else needs.

After years of doing that, it can become difficult to know what you need.

What activities leave you feeling energized?
Who do you feel comfortable being yourself around?
What actually brings you joy?

Those questions sound simple.

For many of us, they’re not.

Learning about autistic masking was one of the things that helped me start asking those questions differently.

If you’re curious about your own masking patterns, comment QUIZ and I’ll send you my free Masking Styles Quiz. 🧡

12/06/2026

Here’s my take on the neurodivergent showering thing…

I’ve seen lots of people@talking about this, but is always a favourite.

10/06/2026

One of the hardest parts about autistic masking is that it can become invisible.

Not just to other people.

To you.

When you’ve spent years adapting, accommodating others, pushing through discomfort, and becoming who you think you’re supposed to be, those patterns can start to feel like your personality.

Many late-diagnosed autistic adults tell me they don’t know where the masking ends and they begin.

That’s exactly why I created the Masking Styles Quiz.

It’s designed to help you identify the ways masking may be showing up in your life and give you a starting point for understanding yourself with more clarity and compassion.

🧡 Comment QUIZ and I’ll send you the link.

04/06/2026

For years, I thought everyone was working this hard.

Working this hard to socialize.
Working this hard to fit in.
Working this hard to keep up.
Working this hard to look “fine.”

I assumed I was just anxious, sensitive, introverted, perfectionistic, or bad at coping.

Then I learned about autistic masking.

Masking is the set of strategies many autistic people use to blend in, meet expectations, and avoid standing out. It can be so automatic that you don’t even realize you’re doing it.

The problem?

It often comes with a cost: exhaustion, burnout, self-doubt, and feeling disconnected from who you actually are.

If this reel made you pause and think, “Wait... is this me?” I created a free Masking Styles Quiz to help you explore your own patterns.

Comment QUIZ and I’ll send you the link. 🧡

01/06/2026

I don’t think I’m the only one trying to figure this out.

Social media can feel like connection, community, and relief.
It can also feel like noise, input, and one more place where I forget to check in with myself.

I’m trying to find the middle ground.
Not disappearing.
Not staying constantly available.
Staying connected without abandoning myself.

Do you feel this pull too?
Wanting connection, but needing quiet?

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

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