wayfinding
A lived-experience guide for
late-identified neurodivergent women
You were not missed because you were hard to see.You were missed because the maps were never drawn with you in mind.Wayfinding is for women late‑identified as Autistic, ADHD, or both, and for women who are beginning to sense that something in their story wants to be understood.Grounded in lived experience, Wayfinding offers a way of finally making sense of the life you have already lived.Coming September 2026.
Wayfinding was written in Wollongong, on the lands of the Dharawal people. I offer my respect to their Elders, past and present, and acknowledge their deep and continuing connection to the land, waters and skies of their Country.
coming september 2026.
about the book
By the time the question arrives, you’ve already lived decades of your life.You’ve built relationships, careers, families, coping strategies, entire identities — all without the words that might have made sense of it.You may not have called it neurodivergence. You may have called it being sensitive, intense, driven, inconsistent, lazy, an underachiever, an overachiever, bright, different, or emotional. You may have simply called it “how I am.”Wayfinding was written for this moment — for women recognising their neurodivergence later in life, and for the quiet shift that happens when your own story comes into view.Wayfinding is not a diagnostic manual, a workbook, or a program, and it will not try to fix you.Written by a late‑identified neurodivergent woman, it offers language, orientation, and recognition.Walk the path straight through, wander, circle back, or set it down and return when you’re ready — the trail will keep.
You don’t need certainty to set out.Curiosity is enough.
coming september 2026.
for clinicians
Wayfinding was written for the women you sit with — the ones arriving in their thirties, forties, fifties and beyond with a question they don’t yet have language for.In your practice, it can:
Bring lived-experience depth to your clinical knowledge — the internalised presentation, masking, burnout, and identity grief described from the inside, in the language clients actually use.
Give a client one concept at a time. The book is built from short, self-contained pieces (lanterns), so you can point a client to three pages on masking, or unmasking, or identity grief — not a whole book at once. Single sections may be photocopied for individual clients within a clinical relationship, with my blessing.
Live in your lending library or waiting room — for the client who isn’t ready to buy it.
Scaffold the conversation when late identification enters the room: it offers shared language for presentations, camouflaging, and the pathways to knowing — formal and self-identified.
Be the thing you hand her in the week the question first arrives — when she’s between the recognising and the knowing, and needs company more than information.
About the author
Siobhan Walsh is a mother, a writer, and a late-identified neurodivergent woman. She has spent more than thirty years working with words — advertising, journalism, public sector communications, fiction writing, and editing. She came to her own neurodivergence at 51, sideways, through her teenager’s assessment. Wayfinding — the book she needed and couldn’t find — is her first nonfiction book. She writes essays and reflections on Substack, exploring identity, neurodivergence, and the architecture of everyday life. She lives in the Illawarra, with her husband, their teenager, and four cats who contribute nothing to the household economy.
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