Episode 40: Teen Girls, Missed Diagnoses, and the Cost of Just Calling It Anxiety
Matt, Erin, and guest Jamie Roberts sit down to talk about autistic teen girls—the ones who get missed, mislabeled, and pushed through systems that don’t fit. This is about what’s actually happening u...
3 Apr 41min
Episode 39: Chaos, Data Gaps, and Why “Just Wing It” Is Not a Real Strategy
This week, we’re talking about chaos—the real kind. The kind that shows up in your body, your routines, your relationships, and your nervous system. Matt and Erin break down what it actually means to ...
27 Mar 44min
Episode 38: Gatekeeping, Theory of Mind, and Why Awareness Keeps Missing the Point
Matt and Erin take this one straight on: why autism “awareness” looks the way it does—and who built it that way.This is about power, bad science, and what happens when non-autistic voices control the ...
23 Mar 51min
Episode 37: Shop Titans, Small Talk Scripts, and the Autistic Art of Socializing
Small talk is weird. Especially when you’re autistic.This week, Matt, Erin, and returning guest Dr. Kade Sharp dig into why neurotypical small talk revolves around scripts like weather and sports, whi...
13 Mar 41min
Episode 36: Driver’s Licenses, Gatekeeping, and Why Bullies Love Bureaucracy
This week’s episode happened fast. Matt and Erin pulled in returning guest Dr. Kade Sharp to talk through a situation unfolding in real time—and why it matters far beyond one state.We talk about the s...
7 Mar 51min
Episode 35: PDA, Breadsticks, and the Persistent Drive for Autonomy
Matt and Erin flip the script this week — Erin takes the lead, and Matt talks about living as a PDAer. It’s direct. It’s personal. And yes, there are breadsticks.We’re talking about what PDA actually ...
27 Feb 41min
Episode 34: Safety, Spark, and the Autistic Refusal to Shrink
Matt, Erin, and returning guest Kate McNulty are back — and this one moves from burnout to shame to safety, with stops at birds, clocks, and emotional support cheese.We’re talking about what happens w...
20 Feb 44min
Episode 33: Rain Man, Cornflakes, and the Regulation Nobody Talks About
Matt and Erin are joined this week by Kate McNulty, LCSW — therapist, teacher, late-identified Autistic human, and one of our own. We start with “special interests”… and end up square dancing, grindin...
13 Feb 41min
