Unidentified Autism-Increasing Awareness and Understanding and Recognizing and Normalizing Autism in Your Relationship With Yourself & Your Partner-Guest Co-host Greg Fuqua

During this episode, Mona is joined by her guest co-host Greg Fuqua for a great conversation about unidentified autism, awareness and understanding of autism, recognizing and normalizing autism, and the Generation Gap.

Greg was also a guest on Season 4 of the podcast, so if you haven't listened to that episode please check it out.

Other topics we discuss are:

• The change in prevalence rates and what it really means.
• How neurodiversity presents in different ways.
• Validating and understanding how people struggle.
• Recognizing traits in yourself when your child is diagnosed.
• Increase in stress may contribute to identifying autism.
• Secondary and tertiary clues of autism.
• Narcissism and control issues that may be related to "unidentified autism".
• Social disability model of autism.
• Awareness, education and self understanding are just the beginning.
• Relationship with self is critical.
• Understanding which of your "parts" are trying to protect you.
• Be aware of stress and capacity issues.
• Masking to be accepted.
• Understanding the internal autistic experience and how more traits show up "at home".
• Barriers to self-disclosure.
• Normalizing different wiring as a lens for understanding and growing.
• Misdiagnosis in women.
• Struggles with Theory of Mind.

If you would like to contact Greg you can check out his website at: www.GregFuqua.com or contact him at www.LifeWorksDM.com. You can also check out his profile on Psychology Today.

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