Autism Stories: Tammy and Billy Mayfair

"You can be into kink, you can be into the idea of sex, you can even enjoy certain actions related to it and still be on the asexuality spectrum. And that [fact] widened my view", says Sabrina and Kad...

25 Touko 22min

"My] books don’t have that clinical language. I’m not a therapist, I’m not a professional. I just have the experience of actually living autism every single day with my kids… this is from one parent t...

18 Touko 18min

"It’s hard enough for most autistic people to connect in the first place. There’s such a hunger to meet other people like ourselves… What I’ve learned is that it’s a lonely journey. People are figurin...

11 Touko 27min

"They enable autistic and other adaptive athletes to run a Boston Marathon with slightly different requirements. [I thought] I’d love to be a part of it. And then a year later, I ran with them", says ...

4 Touko 22min

"Kids can look at [Hans Christian Andersen's] story and say, oh wow, here’s this famous author, and he went through this. Oh, there’s hope… not only make it through, but do something that I really lov...

27 Huhti 18min

"No one can truly wrap their head around the horror of living in silence. Finding spelling was the first step to healing", says Talia Zimmerman. Tailia joins this episode to discuss how life changes f...

20 Huhti 12min

"I want to build things that last… I want to make sustainable systems. And I want it to be beyond me, that it doesn’t rely on me", says Mandy Pinckley. Mandy joins us to discuss launching neurodiverge...

13 Huhti 15min

"I always take a lot of breaks, have a lot of snacks, have a lot of fidget toys… in order to prevent that from happening and having a meltdown… I always tell my agency and my managers that my needs ha...

6 Huhti 14min