Not Quite Typical: AuDHD & Neurodivergent Conversations

If you’ve completed the "mainstream levels" of mental health care,from talk therapy to psychiatric labels,and you’re still left wondering why you are struggling, this episode is the "how-to" guide you’ve been waiting for. Joining the podcast is the incredible Josephine Knechtli, a brilliant hypnotherapist who is completely changing the game for the neurodivergent community. In this deep, humorous,...

Ever been handed a clinical worksheet by a therapist and felt an instant wave of ADHD shame and avoidance? You are not alone. In this episode, we are completely reframing how we look at mental health, therapy, and the traditional 9-to-5 corporate grind with Simone Westcott-Villiers, a CBT specialist and the founder of Founder Therapy . Simone specializes in working with entrepreneurs, high achieve...

In this episode, I sit down with the brilliant Charlotte Forbes, founder of ADHD Club UK, ADHD coach, and former social media manager. Charlotte candidly shares her own journey of being diagnosed at 32 after "ADHD TikTok" found her, hyper-focusing through six books in a week, and navigating the chaotic, brilliant, and sometimes brutal world of creative advertising agencies. From the secr...

In this episode, I am completely fangirling as I sit down with two incredible creators from the neurodivergent community: Jon and Erin. Erin is the host of the AuDHD and Me podcast, and Jon is the host of AuDHD or Just a Bit Weird? . Together, they have been candidly documenting their brilliant online-to-offline best-friendship. From creating meticulous itineraries for their first meeting (that na...

To kick off Season 2, Amber sits down with comedians Joe Wells and Abigoliah Schamaun , co-hosts of the hit podcast Neurodivergent Moments . With their highly anticipated book Neurodivergent Moments releasing on June 18th 2026 , we dive deep into the unfiltered reality of what it actually takes to co-write a book when you have a neurodivergent brain. From managing deadlines with ADHD and autism to...

Season 2 is coming soon. Follow on Instagram so you don’t miss the announcement! In the Season 1 finale of Not Quite Typical, Amber is joined by her long-time friend and podcast producer, Jess. They get into what it really feels like to travel as a neurodivergent person, from airport sensory overload and decision paralysis to leaving your passport on the side of a mountain in Vietnam. They also co...

Have you ever walked away from a social event feeling lonelier than before you arrived? In this episode, Amber goes deep on one of the most quietly painful parts of the neurodivergent experience — not isolation, but the specific kind of loneliness that comes from being surrounded by people and still not feeling reached by any of them. She covers why ND brains find genuine connection harder, the di...

Modern dating is hard. Dating when you’re neurodivergent is a different category of hard altogether. In this episode, Amber gets into the very specific ways that being AuDHD shapes romantic experiences: dopamine-seeking behaviour and dating app addiction, monotropism and why neurodivergent people fall into intense fixations, and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and how it amplifies every silence and...

Ever feel crushed by shame when a hobby you love suddenly feels impossible? In this episode of Not Quite Typical , I unpack why PDA (pathological demand avoidance) and ADHD shame spirals hit so hard for me as a late-diagnosed AuDHDer. From my abandoned baking dreams to work guilt and friend-text paralysis, I share it all. I dive into the roots: RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria), masking exhausti...

Masking: suppressing, adapting, and performing your way through every social situation — is something most late-diagnosed autistic and ADHD people did for years without even realising it. In this episode, Amber traces where her own mask came from, all the way back to childhood, and follows it through school, work, and adult life. She talks about what unmasking actually looks like in practice (spoi...

Late-diagnosed AuDHD adults: does time anxiety keep you stuck in future worries or past regrets? This episode breaks down why we can’t “just exist in the present” and 3 strategies that actually work. We cover: time blindness in AuDHD, masking exhaustion from constant planning, and practical unmasking tools for neurodivergent time management. enjoyed. You’re not dramatic. Your nervous system is jus...

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This episode is Amber’s personal AuDHD diagnosis story. After years of feeling like she was constantly two steps behind everyone else, perpetually exhausted, and never quite fitting in anywhere, Amber shares how she came to seek an assessment, what the process actually looked like, and what happened in the aftermath. This is the real, unfiltered version not the neat narrative you get to write with...

A late autism and ADHD diagnosis doesn’t just give you answers — it asks you a whole new set of questions. Who were you before the label? Which parts of you are actually you, and which parts were you performing? In this episode, Amber digs into the identity shift that comes with late diagnosis. She talks through the grief for the version of yourself that struggled without knowing why, the relief o...

Job hunting is exhausting for anyone , but when you throw a dopamine-seeking, rejection-sensitive, hyperfocusing neurodivergent brain into the mix, it becomes something else entirely. In this episode, Amber digs into the very specific experience of job hunting when you’re late-diagnosed AuDHD. From obsessively fixating on roles to the crushing blow of radio silence, she unpacks why the traditional...

If January hits you like a wall every single year, the pressure, the resolutions, the fresh-start energy that your brain just can't seem to match ,this episode is for you.   In the very first episode of Not Quite Typical, I'm talking about why January is particularly brutal for late-diagnosed AuDHD brains: the dysregulation that comes with routine disruption, the shame spiral of 'every...