Telling People | Autism & ADHD Disclosure Scripts | Late AuDHD Diagnosis Conversation Workbook | Printable PDF

For the conversations you’ve already had seventeen times in your head.

Telling People is a practical booklet of scripts, prompts and possible responses for talking about a late autism and ADHD diagnosis.

Partners. Parents. Friends. Your children. Work. Appointments. And the person who says, “But everyone’s a bit autistic.”

Written from lived experience by a woman diagnosed AuDHD after fifty, with space to change the words until they sound like you.

INSIDE
• Deciding who to tell, how and why
• Scripts for different people and situations
• Asking for something specific
• Responses to familiar, unhelpful comments
• Ways to end a conversation
• A page to plan your own script and what you’ll do afterwards

You don’t owe everyone an explanation. A text counts. Telling one person and stopping there counts too.

YOUR DOWNLOAD
• One 16-page booklet in standard reading order
• One booklet-print PDF arranged for double-sided printing and folding
• Printing instructions inside

WHO IT’S FOR
Created especially for late-diagnosed autistic and ADHD women who want a starting point for conversations, without having to invent every sentence from scratch.

Use what fits. Cross out what doesn’t. These scripts are options, not obligations.

This is a lived-experience resource, not clinical or legal advice. Support references are Australian.

Digital download only. No physical item will be posted.

Part of the Particular Things late-diagnosis series. Also available with After the Report and The Rereading in the three-booklet bundle. The bundle contains this same booklet, so you don’t need to buy both.

Created with AI tools as part of my writing and design process, including the marine illustrations.

This booklet is grounded in my lived experience of late AuDHD diagnosis and shaped by my creative direction.