Late Diagnosed ADHD and Autism | Rich & Rox Pink
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Late Diagnosed ADHD and Autism | Rich & Rox Pink

B1IntermediateAugust 18, 20261 hr 18 min

Late diagnosed ADHD & autism can change the story you’ve been telling yourself (and your relationship) for decades. In this episode, Dr. Brighten joins Rich and Rox Pink of ADHD Love and the Late Bloomers podcast to talk diagnosis, masking, relationships, perimenopause, HRT, and what finally made their lives make sense; view the full show notes and resources at https://drbrighten.com/podcasts/late-diagnosed-adhd-and-autism/ . Rich and Rox Pink have built a community of more than 5 million followers by showing the messy, funny, painful, and deeply human reality of neurodivergent life. In this candid conversation, Rox opens up ab...

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I always grew up feeling like a fake and a fraud. It leads to that isolation of like, I'm the worst person alive. I can't stay with someone, so I'm gonna just be alone. Rich in Rox Pink turned the realities of ADHD, autism, love and relationships into a global movement of more than 5 million followers and four Sunday Times bestselling books.

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Now, they're revealing what it really takes to make a neurodivergent relationship work. When we started our social media, I was the neurotypical husband. But it was so obvious that I was autistic. It was like I was masking, I was just forcing out whatever

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was in my mind, because it felt like that was the thing that I had to do. What was the biggest lie you believed about yourselves before your diagnosis?

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