Sharon Worth

I found myself googling something recently that made me smile: “Why am I so pedantic as an autistic person?” Not because I was expecting a quick answer, but because I genuinely wanted to understand why I seem to notice things that other people either don’t see or don’t appear to find important. It’s something I’ve

Have you ever caught yourself wondering whether you’re really autistic because there’s a stereotype you just don’t relate to? I have. For me, it was the idea of having a “special interest” — the ones we’re all familiar with: trains, dinosaurs, astronomy, memorising endless facts about a single topic. Since my diagnosis, I’ve spent far

I often say that receiving my ADHD diagnosis at the age of 49, followed by my autism diagnosis two years later, didn’t change who I was. It simply gave me a different lens through which to understand the person I’d always been.   People sometimes ask whether it was a relief to finally have an