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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Many ADHD women say the autism assessment is really traumatizing.
Chapter 2: Why does Autism often go unnoticed in adults?
It brings up so many questions about how you are socially and how you communicate. It is very regulating for the nervous system to be in connection with someone but it's when it doesn't work out it can be really really tough.
Chapter 3: How do individuals emotionally react to a late Autism diagnosis?
Dr. Samantha Hu is a specialized female ADHD and autism expert with a PhD in medical sciences.
Chapter 4: What is the identity crisis that follows a late diagnosis?
She's here to spread awareness of ADHD and autism and help you process a diagnosis. Autistic ADHDers have encountered adverse childhood experiences, so they never really had that role model of someone who was there for them, who can validate their experience. And when you are born with this increased intensity, you learn quite quickly.
Chapter 5: How can someone process a late Autism diagnosis effectively?
Not everyone can host the space for that.
When you go through that process of unmasking, can the traits of your autism momentarily get worse?
Well, speaking as somebody who has... Can I have just a second of your time?
If this podcast has helped you understand your brain or made you feel less alone, can you do me one favour?
Chapter 6: Why do autistic traits feel more pronounced after diagnosis?
Can you hit the follow button?
Chapter 7: What are the hidden costs associated with masking AuDHD?
And I'll repay the favour by continuing to book the best and most exclusive conversations on this topic. Please enjoy the episode and always remember, you're not broken, just different, and you have always been enough. Samantha, welcome back.
Thank you so much for having me again.
Chapter 8: How can someone rediscover their true self after years of masking?
So great to see you.
We're going to dive into all DHD. What age do you think somebody might, having perhaps had, say, an ADHD diagnosis, what age would they then suspect or seek an autism diagnosis?
Yeah, so, I mean, these days, we get, you know, children as young as, you know, five years old. But for most of us, late diagnosed adults, I find it tends to happen in a time when people are either encountering, you know, anything online that, makes them think, oh, that sounds like me.
But for those of us who are going through perhaps transitions in our lives, when we feel like I'm finding it really hard to cope or something isn't going well in their lives, you know, I've once mentored somebody who said that they found it really hard
to keep relationships and that really made them want to pursue a diagnosis maybe get support and then they think that then you know i can understand myself better and i can you know be in this relationship but then most women tend to come to an adhd diagnosis because of hormonal changes that happen or you know a history of premenstrual dysphoric disorder pmzd
For me, I came to an ADHD diagnosis first at the age of 40 after the birth of my second child. And at the time, I was going through really, you know, big dip in my sex hormones that I didn't know, obviously, you know, how it then impacts on my ability to function as a person, you know, whether to think or manage, you know, my anxiety was through the roof.
And that led me to then look for some answers.
I imagine it's a huge emotional rollercoaster going through an assessment of, say, autism after, for many, many years, you sort of identified or got that label of ADHD. And then at a particular age, you find out that there's more to it. There's more going on.
Do you notice in people that you've spoken to, is there a particular emotion that crops up when they finally discover that there's more going on?
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