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 […]
Category Archives: Diagnosis & Late Discovery
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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 […]
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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 […]
