How to Cope With Discomfort

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There's two ways it goes like most of the time I'm so busy trying to ignore all those things and ignoring the discomfort that I'm quite in my own head. There's a third thing Do you have to just not react to any of it assuming that it's all things that no one else can see because How do you know which things to react to and acknowledge? And what it will mean is I'm often like quite distracted if I'm in a room with other people Because Someone will have a really strong perfume on which I find completely unbearable or something hums in public buildings. Sometimes it really pushes you over the edge, you can get really upset or lose your temper but for us

Author Katherine May recounts the moment she – at age 37 – discovered she is autistic and recognized herself for the first time.

Living as an autistic person in a world that often misunderstands her, Katherine shares:

How the prevailing understandings of autism erase the lived experiences of autistic women and girls;
The way autism looks and feels for adult women; and
How she navigates social interactions and sensory overload.

Katherine also reveals what she hears most often from people who think they might be autistic, which has Glennon asking: “Katherine, am I one of those people?”

For more information about how autism may show up in the lives of adult women, listen to the end of this podcast, and visit Katherine May’s Autism Resource Page at https://katherine-may.co.uk/autism-resource-page.

Don’t miss our We Can Do Hard Things conversation with Hannah Gadsby, who was also diagnosed with autism in adulthood: Episode 82 Hannah Gadsby: How to Communicate Better.

About Katherine:

Katherine May is the New York Times–bestselling author of Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age and Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, which has been translated into twenty-five languages around the world. Her journalism and essays have appeared in a range of publications including The New York Times and The Times of London. She lives by the sea in Whitstable, England.

IG: @katherinemay

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