Autistically You Support Services

24/12/2025

Wishing all my followers and clients a very Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 Nat (Autistically You Support Services)

13/12/2025

The call of nature is strong. I'm feeling like an adventure... a bush walk somewhere. It's just not the best time here in Perth atm as it's summer and the temp has just gone ⬆️⬆️🥵 I can't believe it's been coming up to 3 years that I travelled over East with my 3 boys towing an old 1980spop up camper! Travelling for 2 months filled my heart (and ADHDbrain) with 💗 Do you have any suggestions where my next bushwalk could be?

11/12/2025

This breaks my heart 💔 We have much to learn from this story. Like John and many others both before him and even now, late diagnosed autistic adults are misunderstood. They are pushed around the mental health system. Prescribed medication.. often for misdiagnosed conditions like schizophrenia. When in fact they are actually autistic. Complicated by layers of trauma, being ignored, gaslit, judged, shamed, dismissed, stigmatized... they are not broken human beings who need to be fixed. Autistic adults want to be heard, listened to, and accepted for their differences, and to be supported in a way that gives them quality of life.

I specialise in supporting autistic women and I have many clients who have been misdiagnosed, only then to receive their autism diagnosis. This is not without layers of shame, frustration, anger and trauma after decades of suffering.

Nat ❤️‍🩹

For most of his life, Helen’s brother John didn’t know he was autistic. He was diagnosed in the 1970s — a time of limited understanding of neurodiversity and access to professional support.

"The doctor had a very strong Scottish accent, and we hadn't heard the term autism before, so we thought he said 'artistic'.

"John had been living without a diagnosis for almost four decades. I believe him not having validation and professional support severely affected his mental health."

To read Helen's full article, tap here: https://bit.ly/48IQmKr

01/12/2025

Come and join me tomorrow morning 10am at the Baldivis library as I delve into autism in adulthood and my own autism and ADHD journey. There will even be a bit of Q&A time at the end 😊🌸💗🙏🏻

29/11/2025

The City of Rockingham has invited me to speak on my journey to diagnosis, how a diagnosis has informed my life and work... as well as how to support neurodivergent individuals. Best of all it's free to attend! But registration is essential. Please visit https://rockingham.wa.gov.au/events,-culture-and-tourism/events/what-s-on-calendar/2025/december/2-12-2025-12-00-00-am?calendardate=2%20December%202025

29/11/2025

Someone asked recently about the photographs that are in the Autistically You Journal + Workbook... so I thought I'd share one of my SPIN's... photography! 📷

https://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanandearth/albums/

I'm sharing my Flickr album I started many moons ago now. My interest in photography really took off when I lived in a small country town down south for nearly 5 years.

The beautiful landscapes really inspired me. If you or an autistic loved one has a deep seated interest in something, something they are really passionate about, something that brings them joy and happiness... then please encourage this. Our passions and interests are often what ignites that small spark of hope inside us. It can be our escape from a world ☺️

Maybe now I will slowly add more to my Flickr album, esp since I travelled wirh my 3 boys around parts of Australia 2 years ago. These images are in the Autistically You Journal + Workbook.

Nat ✨💖

13/11/2025

New website domain... autisticallyyou.au 🌸💗🌟🌈🏳️‍🌈🦄

12/11/2025

Same great service just a new name... to reflect more of I do as an autism specialist. Psychosocial recovery coaching, peer mentoring and education for autistic and adhd individuals and their families 💗😊🙏🏻 I also offer parent carer training. At the moment the website and emails are the same. Nat 🌻🌸

12/11/2025

I supported Lauren on this trip to the SBS studio's in Sydney and was In the audience 😊 I am forever grateful to be able share this moment with Lauren but also the other people that live with chronic illness and Disabilities. Many of these conditions also overlap with neurodivergence. Lauren spoke so well about how it is to be chronically ill. It is so important to be given a platform to be able to advocate for oneself as well to increase awareness in society. We need GPs and health professionals to listen to our voices and to he taken seriously 🙏🏻 ❤️‍🩹

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BoUZLRLiR/?mibextid=wwXIfre toess akd dosabiloty. tyno cey

04/11/2025

Who's joining me at the ADHD seminar this Saturday? I'll be catching the train up from Mandurah. I believe there are a few tickets left 😊🙏🏻💗 Looks like a great seminar if you're a woman who lives with ADHD (like me!!). And let's not forget perimenopausal 😩

28/10/2025

Due to many factors, I need to pause the ND SPIN's Club for the time being. However, you can still submit an EOI through the website. www.mandurahndcentre.com 🙏🏻🧡🌻🌸

23/10/2025

50 laps around the sun for me! ☀️ it feels very surreal to say that today I am 50 years old. For in my mind when I think of a number I'd say 40. So the say that I'm half a century is a bit of a wow moment. Although my body may tell me differently as sometimes I feel very much 50 and beyond... Today really is a day to celebrate all of my achievements, but also to reflect on where I have come from. What I have gone through, to what has led me to be the person I am today. All the good times, the bad and ugly times, all the ups and downs... I often think of the Choose your Own Adventure books I had in the 1980's... how many twists and turns and tangents have led me here today... on my birthday... all the life lessons and experiences that have shaped the person I am... Well, cheers to me (and anyone else who is celebrating their birthday today) 🌻☀️🧡🌸🎉🥳 May you all have an amazing day!