Author Archives: Michelle Labine

Several years after my Autism diagnosis, I began noticing something. For most of my life, I thought I was just sensitive, emotional, complicated or “too much.” I spent decades trying to understand why relationships often felt emotionally confusing, why I carried such deep longing and why I lived with a quiet but persistent sense that […]

Psychosexual wellbeing is rarely discussed when it comes to Autistic women. Historically, autism research and diagnostic frameworks have largely been based on male presentations, leaving many Autistic women unseen, misunderstood, or diagnosed much later in life. Conversations about autism have often centered deficits, behaviours, and social difficulties, while sexuality has frequently been ignored altogether or […]

I think we need to start having more honest conversations about what neuroaffirming care actually is and what it is not. Recently, I’ve noticed an increasing number of neurodivergent clients arriving in my practice after working with therapists who identified themselves as neuroaffirming, yet leaving those therapeutic relationships feeling more confused, ashamed, burned out or […]

There’s something that has shown up in my relationship more than once, but it became especially clear recently when my partner was away for a number of days. We FaceTime’d a few times while he was gone, and objectively, everything about those calls was fine; we checked in, we talked about our days, we covered […]

By Michelle Labine, PhD April 15, 2026 Why Everything Feels Harder Now (And It’s Not Just Hormones) There is a point many late-diagnosed Autistic women reach where things stop working in the way they always have and it doesn’t happen all at once, and it doesn’t look dramatic from the outside, but internally there is […]