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Podcast: THE SJ CHILDS SHOW-Building a Community of Inclusion
Episode: Episode 343-From Late Diagnosis To Lyrical Healing With Australian Poet Nadine Ellis
Description: Send us Fan MailWhat if the words you needed were waiting inside the moments you try to rush past? We sit down with Australian poet and radiographer Nadine Ellis to explore late autism diagnosis, the quiet injuries of daily life, and the craft of turning hard feelings into language that heals. Nadine was diagnosed at 58, alongside her daughters and husband, and that clarity reframed decades of masking, missed cues, and misplaced shame. Instead of pathologizing sensitivity, she treats it as guidance—and her poems channel that signal into lines that land with precision.Across ou...