Autism Stories: Andrew Ackner

"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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 14min