Feeling “Childlike” in Power or Learning Situations: A Common AuDHD Pattern By Michelle Labine, PhD October 2025 When an AuDHD woman says she feels “childlike” or “small” in certain situations, she isn’t being metaphorical. It’s a full-body experience and a visceral shrinking that shows up as a quieting of voice, a sudden loss of words, […]
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The Quiet Fear of Not Being Diagnosed By Michelle Labine October 2025 Many of my clients express this fear when we begin exploring the possibility that they might be ADHD or Autistic. It’s often not the testing itself that feels frightening, it’s the deeper fear that, after all the reflection, research, and self-recognition, they’ll be […]
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Not Anymore By Michelle Labine October 2025 When an Autistic woman says, “I need it this way,” or “I can’t do that right now,” it is not about control. Read that again. It’s about trust, safety, and finally being allowed to exist on her own terms. What looks like control from the outside is […]
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Autism + Environment = Outcome Understanding the Equation as a Late-Diagnosed AuDHD Woman By Michelle Labine, PhD October 2025 For most of my life, I believed the way I responded to the world revealed something inherently wrong with me; that I was too sensitive, too intense, too emotional. What I couldn’t see then was that […]
