Hello! My name is Emily and I think it’s safe to say I’ve been frugal-minded my entire life. My desire to live a simpler life hit me around age thirty, when life was feeling overwhelmingly stressful. I wouldn’t know it for another 23 years, but I’m autistic, and the career I’d chosen as an elementary schoolteacher wasn’t the best fit.
Fast forward to today, and I’m a postmenopausal woman with AuDHD (that’s when traits of autism and ADHD present together) who’s learned a lot since hitting her late thirties about simplifying, downsizing, and finding fulfillment in a quiet and uncluttered life. My goal here is to pass on that information to you while encouraging you to find your own way to slow down and find real peace and contentment.
Specifically, I want to help other neurodivergent women over the age of 45 to navigate the obstacles that we often come up against when our estrogen and progesterone decide to take a permanent vacation. I’ve learned by experience that when you can overcome those obstacles (usually by simplifying your life), you can start living again.
One more thing: I state this on my disclaimer page, but really, how many blog visitors ever click on that page? A couple of handfuls of the articles on this blog were generated by AI, then heavily edited by me. They are the first eleven blog posts that pertain strictly to menopause or aging and how either affects ADHD and autism (they will be published/have been published in July and August of 2026). EVERY OTHER BLOG POST was composed and will be composed by my own hand, from my own head.