Joining Catherine in S4 Episode 6 is Louise Fox is a former GBR Elite triathlete (representing GBR 5 times at World and European championships), self-employed web developer, environmentalist, and Nordic-obsessed adventurer.
Louise shares her late autism discovery and her journey from competitive sports to motherhood, from quitting her job in her early 30’s to follow her Pro athlete dream, and the challenges of balancing personal identity with family, to how endurance—both in sport and life—has shaped her path.
This is a powerful late discovered story about resilience, determination, loss, adventure, passion, motherhood, exercise as essential self-care and lessons learned along the way.
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Joining us in S4 Episode 5 is Dr Catriona Stewart OBE MCPP where we explore Catriona’s own late autism discovery, her lifetime of learning, and her lifetime of work - it’s a deeply emotional episode.
Catriona founded autistic-led charity SWAN: Scottish Women’s Autism Network in 2012, on completion of her PhD research into the experiences of autistic girls, to provide peer support, build on the knowledge-base, and raise levels of understanding.
Advisor to a number of high level national enquiries and campaigns, including the 3 year National Autism Project, and the 2 year Independent Review of the Mental Health Act (Scotland) in relation to Autism and Learning Disability, she ran an 18 month Employment Project for Scottish Government, and was an Ambassador to their Improving Understanding of Autism #DifferentMinds campaign, 2019-2023.
She was a member of John (Lord) Scott KC’s human-rights focused COVID-response Independent Advisory Group to the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) in 2020-21 and has since been a member of the SPA Board, where she is regarded as a Champion for Disability and the Neurominorities.
She has delivered numerous papers and plenary presentations, training and workshops, in the UK and abroad. Most recent was the AETAPE bi-annual congress in Cadiz to which she presented on Independent Living for Autistic Adults, the barriers and enablers, from a Human Rights perspective.
Her work is focused on community engagement, participatory action research, equality, diversity and inclusion, and Human Rights. It is informed by her research, her years of professional experience and her lived experience as a late-diagnosed autistic woman and mother.
To Catriona and all the autistic women who have paved the way before us, the trailblazers who have prepared the ground in this new world for others to follow. We see you and we give you our gratitude for opening the door to this brave new rediscovered world.
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Joining Catherine & Pete in S4 Ep4 is stand-up comedian, writer, radio host and podcaster - Pierre Novellie.
Pierre is co-host of The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio, and his television appearances include World’s Most Dangerous Roads (Dave), The Mash Report (BBC2), and Stand Up Central (Comedy Central).
In audio, Pierre co-hosts the hit Budpod podcast alongside Phil Wang which has over 3.5million downloads, has performed on The Now Show and The News Quiz (Radio 4), and hosts the BBC Sounds podcast series Obsessed With… SAS: Rogue Heroes.
As a writer, Pierre was a regular writer on the rebooted Spitting Image (ITV/Britbox) and has also written on shows including Mock the Week (BBC2), The News Quiz (Radio 4) and The Mash Report (BBC2).
One of the UK’s most acclaimed live acts, Pierre‘s latest show Must We? saw a sold-out run at the Monkey Barrel at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and was his fourth show to have been placed in the top 20 best-reviewed comedy shows across the entire festival and will tour the UK in 2024.
He has released two comedy specials, Quiet Ones and Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? via US comedy label 800 Pound Gorilla Records which have amassed over half a million views online.
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Catherine's much awaited and anticipated book 'Rediscovered' was published 21st February 2025.
In this special episode, Catherine is interviewed by S4 guest (and friend) Dr Helen Lawal about the book.
We talk everything from Mountains, Metaphors, Monotropism, Masking, Manifestos for Change - and so much more.
*This recording is from the live online launch which took place on 24th February.
The book is out now in paperback, audio and Ebook
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Joining Catherine and Pete in S4 Episode 3 in this powerful, and deeply moving episode is Tristan Kluibenschadl.
Content Warning: In this episode we talk about sensitive content relating to mental health, suicide, trauma and grief.
Tristan comes on the show to share his story of late autism discovery, which came at a time in his life when he was a working as a (former) Senior Police Officer where he spent 32 years working in strategic, operational, and tactical levels within the criminal justice system.
A subject matter expert in Serious & Organised Crime, Homicide and Kidnap investigation for The Investigation Academy, he also served as the Kent Police lead for autism and as a regional representative for the National Police Autism Association, yet as we hear in the episode Tristan didn’t "feel safe to come out and disclose his late autism diagnosis because there was too much at risk.”
Tristan also talks in this episode about his ‘beautiful, kind and funny' autistic son, Stefan who tragically died by suicide in March 2022 at just 15 years old, due to relentless bullying and compounded by failures from the very statutory services meant to protect him.
On 14th February 2024, Stefans Acts of Kindness, STAK life was born, founded by Tristan and his wife Emma out of love to honour their son, which is dedicated to supporting neurodivergent young people & their parents and carers, & providing professionals training to help change the narrative for autistic people in our society.
We are dedicating this episode today to Stefan, and these words that Tristan shares in this episode, for anyone who needs to hear them today:
“You are enough just the way you are, and the world is a better place with you in it”
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Link to the book we were talking about that is dedicated to Stefan.
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Joining Catherine & Pete in this episode of our new season is Dominique Bowler-Brown.
CW: We discuss sexual abuse and trauma
She is a thirty-five-year-old from South London, home-schooling mother of two and a half children (pregnant at time of recording).
Dominique studied at BRIT performing arts college and then Goldsmiths University of London, and over the past several years she has worked in television commercials, acting and modelling and has written five novels (“Energy” and “Generation” by Miniq Brown, available on Amazon).
Her work focuses on issues of trauma and family psychology and she has a passion for depicting under-represented voices; black, female, autistic in particular.
She is currently writing a novel called “The Worthy” about how society dignifies and assigns value to people with physical and mental differences and disabilities like autism, cerebral palsy and trisomy 21.
Dominique was diagnosed autistic at thirty-one after trying to get a diagnosis for her daughter, which came as a relief but not a surprise.
She had previously attributed many of her struggles in life to being black, female and outspoken. Her daughter was subsequently diagnosed and has been an inspiration to her to show her how to be a mentally healthy autistic woman and be for her what she wished she could have had in her own childhood.
Dominique has recently moved to Canada with her husband Luke and two daughters.
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Did you know that we have:
150K downloads of the podcast since it began in 2022 (putting us in the Top 5% of podcasts worldwide* according to The Podcast Host)
Over 15K followers (instagram, spotify, apple)
The podcast was ranked #1 in the world ‘Female Autism Podcast’ by Feedspot in 2023/24
Listeners in over 125 countries worldwide.
Read more about our impact over the last 2 years here
Joining Catherine & Pete in the first episode of our new season - Nigerian born and Yorkshire bred, Dr Helen Lawal is Black African- White British, Medical Doctor, Nutritionist, Coach, TV Presenter and Mum of 2.
She’s dedicated 20 years studying, training and working in the field of health care with degrees and qualifications in Sport & Exercise Science (Bsc), Medicine, Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, General Practitioner Specialist Training , Health Coaching and Nutrition.
You might have also seen her on the tele on shows like Channel 4’s Food Unwrapped, Steph’s Packed Lunch and How to Lose Weight Well.
Following her own late discovery as Autistic-ADHD she is now devoted to using all her expertise and experience to support other ADHD and Autistic people navigate their own health and nutrition challenges.
In her own online Nutrition & Coaching Practice, she supports late discovered ADHD women to overcome the overwhelm and make healthy eating their new normal in her 12 week 1:1 signature program.
And, in 2025 will be hosting Chats & Snacks - a virtual support group for late discovered ADHD and AuDHD women covering various health themes including Nutrition Hormones, Sleep and Emotional Health.
Most recently she joined The National Autism Training Programme as a trainer alongside Pete and Catherine and this is the first time she has openly identified as being autistic.
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Season 4 is almost here!!
We have a brand new season coming Friday 17th January 2025 with a new co-host joining Catherine, author Pete Wharmby.
About Pete
After being diagnosed as autistic at the age of 34 in 2017, Pete has immersed himself in working to improve autistic awareness, acceptance and making the world a more suitable place for the neurodivergent community.
He has spoken at a wide range of events and conferences since 2020 in the UK and in Europe and North America, both in person and remotely, sharing his insight and experience of being autistic and ADHD with businesses, governments, educational establishments and more.
Pete is active on LinkedIn, Instagram and on YouTube, where his channel is at over 4000 subscribers.
He is a bestselling author: his first book, What I Want to Talk About, was published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in September 2022, and his second book, Untypical, was published by HarperCollins in March 2023, with the paperback released in March 2024.
Pete has also written a number of articles, interviews and book chapters, and appeared on BBC Radio 2. He is a former secondary English teacher and a father-of-one.
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In our final episode of Season 3 Catherine talks (unscripted!) to Andrea Anderson about 'Rediscovered Realities' because the reality is that accepting you are autistic is just the very beginning.
Catherine & Andrea talk about:
- Getting caught up in the 'should's' - Painful lessons when it comes to living in the shadows of burnout. - Somatic Self-Compassion. - Doing it our way. - And the importance of safety and belonging.
S4 is coming in January 2025 with a new co-host joining Catherine, author Pete Wharmby.
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Sue is 69 and was diagnosed autistic less than a year ago at the age of 68. Ironically, her working life was spent with autistic children and young adults; coincidence?
Probably not.
Born in 1955, an only child to parents who had been wounded and traumatised by their experiences in WW2.
Sue was loved, but she was not the child they imagined or hoped for, with her anger, meltdowns and over-sensitivities, her school anxieties and loneliness, but autism wasn’t even a thing then.
In 2018, when Sue’s own children were in their mid and late twenties, they suggested to her that she might be autistic - after both realising that they were autistic.
Before they could explore this further together, lockdown came and in 2020 Sue’s beautiful, talented son died of an accidental overdose.
She has no doubt his use of drugs were very much a coping strategy which went very very wrong, and wonders how many undiagnosed autistic people don’t show up on the statistics for early deaths or other misadventures.
Sue finds herself now coming to terms with her own diagnosis, against a background of guilt and shame and grief at not having recognised it before - particularly in her own children; particularly for her son.
Looking forward, Sue is concerned for her future as she knows that recognition of autism in women of her age is still very low, and that there must be so many undiagnosed and unrecognised autistic people already in care homes and hospitals.
Hopefully well before she needs it, Sue is going to write a Self Portrait, explaining those things which will make all the difference to her own well-being.
Sue's relationship with the natural world has been a constant and deeply regulating relationship throughout her entire life.
And she knows she will not thrive without time in the natural world. She will not thrive if she’s forced to sit in a communal lounge with daytime tv blaring.
Sue will need there to be quiet spaces and low lighting and books and ´my’ food and no labels in her clothing and so much more.
Sue thinks we could all be writing our own self portraits, now, before we need them, otherwise we’re at the mercy of others to decide what would be ´good’ for us - just as we were at school.
Sue has been deeply moved, reassured and inspired by the stories on the podcast and having the opportunity to speak and share her story - our 50th episode! - with what feels like her own authentic voice, for the first time in her life, she says has been an ‘extraordinary’ experience.
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Dr. Dionna Williams is an Autistic and first-generation academic and martial artist. Dionna received their MSc and PhD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed her postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University.
Dionna has received many prestigious academic fellowships and awards for her research accomplishments and commitment to diversifying academic medicine.
She is currently an Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at Emory University where their research interests center on the intersection of HIV and substance use, focusing on identifying immunologic and pharmacologic means to increase the neurologic health of people living with HIV.
While Dionna amassed academic and professional accomplishments they struggled with what she once considered to be a collection of seemingly unrelated quirks and social discomfort.
While Dionna was always aware of these differences, they became less of a hindrance to interacting with people as she learned to suppress the things that made her most different from others. However, these strategies eventually became less effective and at the most stressful time of their life Dionna began therapy.
It was through this experience that they received an autism diagnosis at the age of 35, which has been life changing.
Since this realization one and a half years ago, Dionna realized all the ways in which she lived an inauthentic life and they are now committed to living a life of their own accord, unmasked, and open about the joys and challenges faced as a neurodivergent scientist from a low-income background raising the most amazing 3-year old.
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In this special bonus episode Catherine's daughter Kristina, who is 7 and autistic takes over as host to interview her autistic idol, The Geek Girl AKA Holly Smale on all things autism and everything geek girl.
About Holly
Holly's debut children's novel, GEEK GIRL, became the No.1 Young Adult title in the UK and won the Waterstones YA Book Prize, selling 3.4 million books in 30 languages.
She is the co-creator, writer and exec producer of the GEEK GIRL TV show, which launched on Netflix worldwide (and StackTV in Canada) on the 30th of May 2024.
At the age of 39, Holly was diagnosed as both autistic and dyspraxic. She writes and speaks passionately about neurodiversity and a lot of random topics she's not really qualified to talk about yet does anyway.
Her debut adult novel, THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX (UK)/ CASSANDRA IN REVERSE (US) is out now, and is a Reese's Book Club Pick, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick and the Aardvark Book Club pick.
She lives in Hove, England, and Holly also appeared on the podcast in Season 2. You can listen here
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Christine. A. Jenkins joins Catherine in this episode to talk about her autistic self-discovery in 2008 and life since her eventual diagnosis in 2009.
Christine has been an Autistic advocate for many years, most recently around issues related to late-in-life diagnosis, gender bias, and autistic ageing.
She contributed a chapter to the anthology Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism (2018), and has presented solo and on panels in Canada and the UK.
Christine has been a peer reviewer and now co-author for the journal Autism in Adulthood, and edits other books and articles as a consultant. Her aim is to "include Autistic voices at every stage in true co-production of research.”
As an independent Autistic researcher Christine has her own business, Christine Jenkins AUsome Consulting.
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Twitter/X @AutisticMatters
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https://linktr.ee/christineajenkins
First paper from Bridging the Silos (2 more under review)
Christine's heroes list:
Michelle Dawson, Bev Leroux, Estee Klar, Diane J Wright (Canada)
Julie Roberts, Therapist Neurodiversity Collective (US)
Yenn Purkis, Donna Williams (Aus)
Rose J Matthews, Clare Sainsbury, Ann Memmott (UK)
Honorable mention: Chris Bonnello, ANW
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Sophie Cartledge joins Catherine in this episode to talk about her autism discovery via an ADHD diagnosis in perimenopause at the age of 44.
After researching why so many women were being diagnosed ADHD in perimenopause, for her work and simultaneously really starting to struggle with a number of things in her own life, she put two and two together and sought a diagnosis.
Looking back now, she can see how the years of not knowing, have taken their toll both mentally and physically, leading her to a place of extreme burnout and feeling broken that have made perimenopause and her early 40’s such a rough ride.
She can also see how perimenopause wasn’t just about her hormones changing, they were the catalyst for the ‘unmasking’ process.
Discovering she is AUDHD has made so much sense of her life. Sophie always knew she was different somehow, often described as quirky, creative, sensitive and caring too much.
And with this, she had always carried this feeling that something was ‘off’, she just couldn't place what. She had put a lot of it down to trauma, yet despite therapy, much of these feelings remained.
Sophie is really passionate about sharing her experience and knowledge to raise more awareness of the intersection that exists between Autism, ADHD & perimenopause in the hope that it might help others make sense of their combined hormone and neurodivergent journey’s too.
:::: Sophie is a Menopause and Hormone health educator & founder of Hormones on the blink. Delivering CPD accredited menopause and hormone health training to workplaces and support to communities. Recipient of the Inspirational women of Portsmouth award, for the Emerging Business category in 2022.
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This is a memorial episode, to honor the life and legacy of Mary’s 90 year old (very) late discovered autistic mum who sadly passed away in April 2023.
Mary wanted to record an episode about how the 'mystery' that was the spikeyness of her profile gave Mary the motivation to turn detective on why they were both so misunderstood and misrepresented.
Mary was eventually formally diagnosed autistic (age 51 in 2017). Already in the most humongous burnout and unable to continue working, Mary became a carer for her mum late in 2019 and she was sure that her mum had hit an autistic burnout crisis too.
In 2022 Mary did manage to get their GP to accept self identification for her mum, after a few years of banging her head against the brick wall of expecting he could understand that she was too infirm to access diagnosis (never mind that she would probably have died before getting to the top of the waiting list).
Sadly however, this did not open up any possibilities of finding autism informed elder care or autism informed support for Mary and her mum.
Struggling so badly that she couldn't keep her safe from falls and several resulting hospitalisations which were disgracefully inadequate, Mary believes that her mum might have survived if there had been some proper understanding of her needs in her final days.
Their GP de-listed both Mary and her mum just before she died because she wrote a letter asking him to do more for her mum.
Mary’s mum died without a doctor.
Mary had asked numerous times for a diagnosis of EDS/connective tissue condition because there were clear connections with both their symptoms.
Mary wanted to say this about how accommodations have enabled her to record this episode:
“Your understanding and lived experience is in itself all the accommodation I require. You have given me all the support I need to prepare in advance and your intentions are transparent. You are supporting my reality rather than challenging my motivation. Such adjustments as your support have not been there for me in other environments, especially at work which was damaging my health to the point of being unable to continue working. Thank you for accommodating me”
Email: marycam66@googlemail.com
Mastodon: @autoperipatetikos@neurodifferent.me
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In this S3 Bonus Episode S1 guest Laura Kerbey joins Catherine to talk about her new book ‘The Teens Guide to PDA’ - which published 21st June 2024 with JKP and is illustrated by Sunday Times Best Selling author Eliza Fricker.
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Dr Rebecca (Becci) Jackson is also known as The Quirky Brain Coach. Becci is an autistic and ADHD positive psychology coach who works with ADHD/autistic adults on zest, self-regulation and executive functions.
Having been misdiagnosed with an anxiety disorder and depression, Becci discovered her neurodivergence towards the start of the pandemic.
Once she got the user manual to her brain, she turned her interest and training in coaching into specifically focusing on coaching for people like her.
Before that, she was a university lecturer in linguistics, completing a PhD in the field. When not eating, sleeping, breathing and researching coaching psychology, Becci can be found hiking, travelling, meditating, journalling, cuddling her dog, and planning her next holiday.
Last year, Becci walked to Everest Base camp just to see if she could, and...she did.
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Catherine speaks to Lauren Fernandez a trainer, speaker, advocate, content developer and Founder & Director of Mask Off CIC and a fellow trainer on the NHS National Autism Trainer Programme.
Through her work with ‘Mask Off’ she educates minds, challenges attitudes and promotes equality through the 'Invisible' Black autistic Female's perspective.
Lauren was diagnosed autistic at aged 26. She is also a mum and will be speaking at The Autism Show in London this month sharing her insights into maternity and autism, and the needs of autistic people, especially those who face extra identity challenges.
In this episode Lauren speaks openly of her experiences as a black, late discovered autistic woman and the many challenges she has encountered not just as a mother, but throughout school and as an adult, and of her experiences of being sectioned and an inpatient in NHS adult mental health services.
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Catherine speaks to Faye Twinn about her late autistic discovery.
Faye discovered she was autistic in her late 30’s and this discovery changed her entire outlook on life itself.
She spent her teens in Devon and it was there within her secondary school that she was identified as ‘dyslexic’. Struggling to fit in, she quickly self identified as arty and found that within the creative subjects she could strive.
She went on to study Fine Art at Falmouth University. Later retaking her English and Maths GCSE’s, gaining a PGCE in arts education and completing a Masters in costume at Central Saint Martins, London. She feels that she scrabbled through her late teens and 20’s and worked in various settings to get by.
Eventually settling into lecturing art and fashion. She spent 15 years as a Lecturer before resigning during the pandemic.
These days Faye can be found working as a studio potter in Essex. She is married, has a 8 year old son and 2 step children in their 20’s.
The work that she produces now, came from needing to step back and an understanding that some of us need to live slower for our well-being.
She creates eco conscious functional pottery and strives to provide simple pieces that can be used to create little moments of loveliness. Her pottery is sold across a number of independent lifestyle stores through out the UK and is also available from her website
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Catherine speaks to Anita Patel about her late autistic discovery.
Anita received a late diagnosis of Autism and ADHD in 2023, after recovering from breast cancer and also burnout, through many years of masking.
Anita’s life has totally changed since her late discovery and she is keen to raise awareness about the role intersectionality can also play, when seeking answers and accessing support.
Being a South Asian woman and having a family who do not ‘fit the mould’, she knows first-hand about the further cultural challenges that exist for neurodivergent individuals.
This is turn can feel isolating - and stops them from sharing their experiences - she is hoping to try and change this. One of her favourite quotes is:
“Fair isn’t everyone getting the same thing. Fair is everyone getting what they need in order to be successful.”
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