The Late Discovered Club

Jan 31 2025 54 ep. 53 mins 81
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The Late Discovered Club is a social impact podcast and community that gives late discovered autistic women and marginalized groups a voice. Hosted by autistic Psychotherapist & Author Catherine Asta and edited by her daughter, Caty Ava. In each episode we bring you real and empowering stories of late discovered autistic women and people, from all walks of life - through an intersectional lens - helping to deconstruct stereotypes, and give visibility to the next generation.

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S4 Episode 2 - Made On Purpose

Jan 31 2025 66 mins  
Joining Catherine & Pete in this episode of our new season is Dominique Bowler-Brown. CW: We discuss sexual abuse and trauma She is a thirty-five-year-old from South London, home-schooling mother of two and a half children (pregnant at time of recording). Dominique studied at BRIT performing arts college and then Goldsmiths University of London, and over the past several years

S4 Episode 1 - Figuring it Out

Jan 17 2025 53 mins  
Joining Catherine & Pete in the first episode of our new season - Nigerian born and Yorkshire bred, Dr Helen Lawal is Black African- White British, Medical Doctor, Nutritionist, Coach, TV Presenter and Mum of 2. She’s dedicated 20 years studying, training and working in the field of health care with degrees and qualifications in Sport & Exercise Science (Bsc), Medicine,

S4 Trailer

Jan 13 2025 1 mins  
Season 4 is almost here!! We have a brand new season coming Friday 17th January 2025 with a new co-host joining Catherine, author Pete Wharmby. About Pete After being diagnosed as autistic at the age of 34 in 2017, Pete has immersed himself in working to improve autistic awareness, acceptance and making the world a more suitable place for the neurodivergent community. He has spoke

S3 Episode 16 - Rediscovered Realities

Oct 26 2024 55 mins  
In our final episode of Season 3 Catherine talks (unscripted!) to Andrea Anderson about 'Rediscovered Realities' because the reality is that accepting you are autistic is just the very beginning. Catherine & Andrea talk about: - Getting caught up in the 'should's' - Painful lessons when it comes to living in the shadows of burnout. - Somatic Self-Compassio

S3 Episode 15 - Augiftic Mace

Oct 11 2024 58 mins  
Mark was born in Clapham, London during the early 70’s and is the youngest of six children to Jamaican parents, later escaping the capital for Preston where he studied philosophy and politics at University. Here he went on to create a Guardian award winning student newspaper called the Students Onion. He was awarded a Scott Trust bursary (from the Guardian) to study post gradua

S3 Episode 14 - Self Portrait

Sep 06 2024 76 mins  
Sue is 69 and was diagnosed autistic less than a year ago at the age of 68. Ironically, her working life was spent with autistic children and young adults; coincidence? Probably not. Born in 1955, an only child to parents who had been wounded and traumatised by their experiences in WW2. Sue was loved, but she was not the child they imagined or hoped for, with her anger, meltdown

S3 Episode 13 - Simpler Times

Aug 23 2024 60 mins  
Dr. Dionna Williams is an Autistic and first-generation academic and martial artist. Dionna received their MSc and PhD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed her postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University. Dionna has received many prestigious academic fellowships and awards for her research accomplishments and commitment to diversifying academic medicine

S3 Bonus Episode - The Geek Girl

Aug 10 2024 37 mins  
In this special bonus episode Catherine's daughter Kristina, who is 7 and autistic takes over as host to interview her autistic idol, The Geek Girl AKA Holly Smale on all things autism and everything geek girl. About Holly Holly's debut children's novel, GEEK GIRL, became the No.1 Young Adult title in the UK and won the Waterstones YA Book Prize, selling 3.4 million books in 30 lan

S3 Episode 12 - Mother of Reinvention

Aug 09 2024 52 mins  
Christine. A. Jenkins joins Catherine in this episode to talk about her autistic self-discovery in 2008 and life since her eventual diagnosis in 2009. Christine has been an Autistic advocate for many years, most recently around issues related to late-in-life diagnosis, gender bias, and autistic ageing. She contributed a chapter to the anthology Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat

S3 Episode 11 - Breaking And Remaking

Jul 19 2024 67 mins  
Sophie Cartledge joins Catherine in this episode to talk about her autism discovery via an ADHD diagnosis in perimenopause at the age of 44. After researching why so many women were being diagnosed ADHD in perimenopause, for her work and simultaneously really starting to struggle with a number of things in her own life, she put two and two together and sought a diagnosis. Looking