RUDE AWAKENING: How Rich’s adult autism diagnosis changed everything
LATE BLOOMERS
Rich & Rox Pink
5.0 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This week on LATE BLOOMERS, Rich and Rox finally talk about the moment everything shifted. Rich has been diagnosed autistic as an adult.
For the first time, they break down what the diagnosis unlocked. All the years Rich was called rude, blunt, quiet or detached. All the childhood rituals and intense interests that made perfect sense in hindsight. All the internal emotions he felt but never showed on his face. All the moments Rox misread him, thinking he was miserable, uninterested or distant. And the strange relief of finally having language for traits that were there the whole time, hiding in plain sight.
From masking to overwhelm to years of being misunderstood, this is an honest, funny and emotional look at what adult autism really feels like when you finally get the answers you’ve been missing.
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| 0:00.0 | We have had a rude awakening in our house. |
| 0:04.3 | Rich has been diagnosed, autistic. |
| 0:08.1 | Finally, today we're going to talk about it. |
| 0:11.1 | Why is it taken so long and loads of other stuff about what it feels like to be diagnosed with autism as an adult? |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to late bloomers where we are getting diagnosed. |
| 0:24.8 | Eventually. |
| 0:25.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.3 | You were late as well though, weren't you? |
| 0:30.1 | Of course I'm going to be late. |
| 0:31.3 | I'm late to everything. |
| 0:33.5 | I, it just blows my mind that we joined the internet so convinced that you were neurotypical. |
| 0:45.2 | In fact, our first social media biography was rocks ADHD A-F, rich neurotifical. |
| 0:53.5 | We've done loads of videos as well with my neurotypical husband, wasn't it? |
| 0:58.2 | Oh my God, it's all a lie. |
| 1:01.9 | To be fair, though, it was kind of our audience that put it on your radar. |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.6 | Well, Seer did first and then the audience and they were like, |
| 1:17.1 | he's just the emotional support autistic for the ADHD. |
| 1:20.9 | You were peer reviewed. |
| 1:21.8 | Anyway, I've got 10 questions here. |
| 1:23.4 | Okay. |
| 1:24.3 | So I'm basically going to be interviewing you. |
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