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This episode features a conversation with Dr Samantha Hiew about her journey to receive an autism diagnosis and the challenges faced by AuDHD women in the healthcare system.

🌟 Kate's opening a small number of 1-2-1 sessions, a chance to bring whatever's on your mind and get some focused time together. Book your session here . This week's episode: When we finally receive a diagnosis, it can feel like the missing piece. But for so many AuDHD women, it's only the beginning of a much longer journey — one that takes us back through everything we thought we knew about ourselves. This week on The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast, I'm welcoming back Dr Samantha Hiew , AuDHDer, scientist, and founder of ADHD Girls . Diagnosed with ADHD at 40, Sam has since received a working autism diagnosis after a seven-month struggle with clinicians who focused on developmental delays and trauma, rather than listening to her experiences. Since we last spoke, Sam has launched a major lived experience survey, and the findings are both validating and hard to sit with. This is a rich and honest conversation about what it really means to be a neurodivergent woman navigating identity, relationships, midlife, and a healthcare system that still doesn't fully see us. In this episode, we explore: Sam's seven-month fight for an autism diagnosis and what it reveals about how the system…

People in this episode

Host: Kate Moryoussef

Guest: Dr Samantha Hiew

Topics covered

• autism diagnosis
• AuDHD women
• neurodivergent identity
• healthcare system
• lived experience survey
• masking
• relational trauma

Keywords

• ADHD
• autism
• AuDHD
• neurodivergent
• identity
• masking
• healthcare
• trauma
• midlife
• perimenopause

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ADHD Girls

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