wayfinding

A lived-experience guide for
late- identified neurodivergent women

Wayfinding is a companion guide for women recognising their neurodivergence later in life and re-orienting their sense of self. Drawing on lived experience, psychology, and embodied insight, it offers language and steadiness for the shifts in identity, relationships, and life story that follow late recognition. Orienting readers through the landscape of these changes, Wayfinding is a grounded, compassionate map for navigating life’s landscapes with new clarity, compassion, and self understanding.

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about the book

There are moments in life when something long felt but unnamed begins to take shape — a quiet recognition that rearranges the way you understand yourself. For many women, discovering their neurodivergence later in life brings both clarity and disorientation: a sense of finally seeing the truth of things, and the unsettling work of re reading a life through a new lens.Wayfinding meets readers in this moment with steadiness and compassion, offering a map shaped by the experiences of women who recognised their neurodivergence in adulthood — in their thirties, forties, fifties, and beyond.Grounded in the understanding that neurodivergence is a normal variation in how minds, nervous systems, and bodies take shape, Wayfinding draws on neuro-affirming psychology and embodied insight. It offers a thoughtful, humane space to explore what becomes possible when a life is understood differently.For women coming to recognise their neurodivergence later in life, Wayfinding offers companionship through a profound shift in self understanding — a guide for navigating life’s landscapes with new clarity, compassion, and confidence.

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Siobhan Walsh is a writer and editor living on Dharawal Country in New South Wales, Australia. She has spent more than thirty years working with words — from advertising, journalism, and public sector communications to fiction writing and editing. Her work is shaped by lived experience of neurodivergence and by a long fascination with how people make sense of themselves and their worlds. She writes essays and reflections on Substack, exploring identity, neurodivergence, and the architecture of everyday life. Wayfinding is her first nonfiction book. She lives with her husband, their teenager, and four cats who contribute nothing to the household economy.

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