Christine Doyle is an educator, speaker, podcast host, and neurodiversity-affirming psychotherapist with 15 years’ experience specialising in the late-identified Autistic and AuDHD experience in women and AFAB adults.
Following her own late identification as AuDHD, Christine’s work increasingly shifted towards education, speaking, training, and identity integration, centring lived experience and nervous system understanding rather than deficit-based narratives.
Her work explores masking and burnout, sensory honesty, nervous system capacity, hormonal transitions, workplace inclusion, and the psychological impact of being missed in childhood.
Christine delivers speaking engagements, organisational training, webinars, and reflective educational spaces for individuals, professionals, and organisations.
She is the host of the Unlearning Autism podcast and founder of the Wild Women Community.
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1-2-1 Work with Christine
These 1:1 offerings provide structured, reflective spaces for exploring neurodivergent identity, considering assessment, integrating late identification, or deepening understanding as someone supporting a neurodivergent adult.
Purchase my book
HormoneFULL, Not Hormonal is a narrative-led handbook exploring the impact of hormonal transitions on Autistic AFAB people across the lifespan. Grounded in the lived experiences of 101 Autistic AFAB adults, this book brings together verbatim reflections on puberty, menstruation, pregnancy and postpartum, perimenopause, and menopause — stages that are often poorly understood, minimised, or misattributed within both medical and mental health settings.
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EMAIL: christine@christinedoyle.ie
PHONE: 087 687 1002
Blog
I lost myself to my thoughts … I’m finally finding my way back to my body
This has changed my life and my work
Yesterday was a good day. The best. And none of that was random.
As an AuDHD person, I am a bottom-up processor - my feelings follow my energy. And I use this knowledge as my guide.
Yesterday started with a good night’s sleep. Then a gentle walk and a coffee with my ❤️. A sauna. Tennis with my family. Fresh air. Movement. Laughter. Connection.
And because I was already feeling good, I made a conscious decision to keep riding that wave and went for a sea swim.
This photo was taken afterwards.
And what strikes me looking at it is how uncomplicated the happiness feels.
Years ago, I wouldn’t have understood any of this. But late-identification has taught me to pay more attention. To notice what genuinely supports my nervous system.
After the swim I came home, had a long shower, did all my creams and potions, tidied my wardrobe and tackled a pile of ironing. For years I would have judged that. I would have told myself to stop tidying. What is wrong with you? You just can’t relax. You need to be kinder to yourself.
Now I understand that this, for me, is kindness. Organisation, sorting, categorising and creating systems regulate my nervous system like nothing else. In fact, a day without some kind of order just feels off, and is rarely a good day for me.
The day finished with a family meal, a cup of tea and an early night.
Nothing remarkable. And yet everything I ever wanted.
The more I understand my nervous system, the more intentional I become about how I spend my time. And strangely, the less I seem to need.
Not more excitement. Not more achievement.
Just the right people. The right pace. The right energy. A little movement. A little order. A little nature. A gentle ease.
The more I understand myself, the easier happiness is for me.
One of the biggest misconceptions about ADHD is that hyperactivity is something we should be able to see.
For many late-identified women, the hyperactivity wasn’t happening in their bodies. It was happening in their minds.
A constant internal movement.
A feeling of needing something.
Something new.
Something exciting.
Something soothing.
Something interesting.
Something that finally helps the mind settle.
Looking back, I can see this in so many women I know.
The woman who never stopped researching.
The woman who always had a new project.
The woman who couldn’t stop shopping.
The woman who drank to quiet her thoughts.
The woman who needed drama, intensity, movement or urgency to feel engaged.
The woman endlessly seeking answers through self-development, spirituality, courses, books and podcasts.
The woman like me.
Different behaviours.
Similar nervous system experience.
Not everyone will relate to every example.
But many ADHD women recognise the feeling underneath them all:
A mind that rarely felt still.
Did your ADHD hyperactivity show up externally, internally, or a bit of both?
I get asked this ALL the time.
And honestly, I’m not sure I have it right yet.
One of the most common questions I receive is:
“What HRT has helped you?”
The truth is that we’re all different. What works beautifully for one person may not work for another.
But after surveying 101 Autistic women and AFAB adults for HormoneFULL, one thing became impossible to ignore:
Hormones matter.
For many of us, shifts in hormones can affect sensory experiences, emotional regulation, executive functioning, sleep, anxiety, energy, capacity, and our overall ability to move through the world.
So I’m curious.
If you’re an Autistic, ADHD or AuDHD adult and HRT has been helpful for you, what has worked?
Not as medical advice.
Not as a recommendation.
Just lived experience shared with others who may be trying to navigate this stage of life too.
Feel free to share:
• What you’re taking
• What symptoms it helped with
• Anything you wish you’d known sooner
Let’s build a thread of experiences that others can learn from.
(And if you’re wondering why this conversation keeps coming up in our community, the answer is probably inside HormoneFULL. Link in bio.)
✨After Knowing ✨
One of the things I have come to believe most strongly, both personally and professionally, is that many late-identified Autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults do not necessarily need more self-analysis.
What they often need is understanding.
A space where they can hear their own experience reflected back to them.
A space where they can borrow language before they have found their own.
A space where they can ask questions, share stories, rethink old assumptions, and begin making sense of a lifetime through a different lens.
As someone who spent 15 years working as a therapist, I absolutely believe there is a place for therapy. But I also believe there is something uniquely powerful about sitting alongside others who simply understand.
Not because they have studied it.
Because they have lived it.
`After Knowing` was created for exactly that reason.
A gentle, neurodiversity-affirming integration space for late-identified Autistic, ADHD & AuDHD adults.
📍 Online (Zoom)
📅 Wednesday 7th – Friday 9th October
🕤 Approx. 9:30am–3:30pm daily (IST)
What to expect:
• Spacious pacing and regular breaks
• Cameras optional
• No forced participation
• Small group format
• Reflection prompts for the evenings
• Recordings available for attendees
• Ongoing community options available afterwards
This is not therapy, but a space to digest, process, reflect, connect, and better understand what comes after recognition.
Early Bird places are now open.
Link in bio.
Christine x
This is my page.
I do what feels instinctively right for me here.
Not what’s ‘right’, just what’s ’right for me’ and hopefully some of it may resonate with you and help validate your experience.
If that doesn’t sit well with you, let this be your reminder that unfollowing is always an option.
For those who choose to stay, I’ll continue to mind and protect my comments section carefully. It’s important to me that you feel safe here.
Not every comment is entitled to a place in this space.
Yes to communication, a hard no to anything that has the vaguest sniff of mean girl energy.
Just one more time … When I speak about Autistic pride it is as a rejection of Autistic shame and never a denial of Autistic struggle.
Never as a denial of anyone’s experience.
Autistic pride is a rising up, a deep validation of the lived experience of Autistic voice.
A voice that has been met with suspicion, cynicism and doubt for generations.
Not anymore. Not here.
AFTER KNOWING is now open 🥳✨💕
A gentle, neurodiversity-affirming 3-day immersive space for late-identified Autistic, ADHD & AuDHD adults to digest, process, and make sense of what can unfold after recognition — alongside others who understand.
For a long time, my work has centred around helping people recognise themselves.
But what I keep seeing is this:
Recognition is only the beginning.
And often, there is very little space to actually digest, embody and integrate any of it with people who truly understand.
AFTER KNOWING is a structured online peer space designed for exactly that.
A space for reflection, understanding, nervous system awareness, honest conversation, and the experience of no longer trying to figure it all out alone.
This is not therapy.
It is a gentle, immersive online integration space held at a spacious, nervous-system-aware pace with regular breaks and no pressure to perform, participate, or have everything figured out.
Early Bird places are now open at €295.
Link in bio.
Christine X
✨Coming Soon✨
For a long time, my work has centred around helping people recognise themselves.
But what I keep seeing is this:
Recognition is only the beginning.
What comes after can feel equally profound.
The grief.
The relief.
The recalibration.
The nervous system shifts.
The identity changes.
The relationships.
The question of how to build a life that actually fits.
So I’ve been busy building something new.
More soon.
Christine x
