Episode 32: Discipline, Dysregulation, and Why Punishment Doesn’t Work
This week is a mailbag episode, and Erin and Matt take on two common questions from allistic listeners that come up constantly in real life. Both questions sound simple. Neither one is.Episode highlig...
9 Feb 46min
Episode 31: Shutdown, Overdrive, and Other Ways Autistic Bodies Say “Enough”
This week, Matt and Erin slow things down and talk plainly about stress — what it actually does to autistic bodies, and why it hits so hard. From shutdowns and migraines to doomscrolling, snacks, and ...
30 Jan 54min
Episode 30: Threat, Trauma, and Why “Just Don’t Look” Isn’t an Option for Us
This week’s episode is heavy. Matt and Erin slow things down to talk plainly about safety, community, and what it means to stay human when systems built on control and cruelty become more visible. Thi...
28 Jan 46min
Episode 29: Belonging, Burnout, and Why Kids Need Somewhere Safe to Land
Matt and Erin are back with returning guest Maisie Soetantyo for a deeper, wider conversation about what happens after diagnosis—inside families, across cultures, and over a lifetime. This episode shi...
23 Jan 46min
Episode 28: Compliance, Regulation, and the Cost of Looking “Fine”
Matt and Erin are joined this week by longtime colleague and friend of the show, Maisie Soetantyo—an openly autistic, multiply neurodivergent advocate with decades inside the autism service system. Th...
17 Jan 39min
Episode 27: Justice Sensitivity, Content Creation, and the Trauma of Being Perceived
This week, Matt and Erin are joined by Arielle Juliette—autistic creator, studio owner, and justice-sensitive human living very online in a very loud world. We talk about trauma, visibility, and what ...
10 Jan 49min
Episode 26: Movement Hunger, Belly Dance, and Letting the Nervous System Finish the Sentence
Matt and Erin are back this week with returning guest Arielle of Dance Life Studio and Fitness, and the conversation goes exactly where Autistic conversations tend to go: movement, joy, systems that d...
3 Jan 44min
Episode 25: New Year’s Dopamine, Ultimate Combos, and Why Systems Beat Resolutions
Matt and Erin sit in that strange in-between space after Christmas and before New Year’s, where everyone’s supposed to feel hopeful but most of us are just tired. This episode is a grounded, funny, ve...
27 Des 202538min
