Nicola Rowan-Brooks and Late Autism Diagnosis at 55
Hear Nicola Rowan-Brooks's story about being diagnosed by Sarah Hendrickx at the age of 55. Nicola shares the impact of her autism diagnosis and what life was like growing up undiagnosed in the UK. N...
22 Feb 202357min
Exposing Violence in ABA With Ciara Harte
Ciara Harte is a neurodivergent counsellor based in Victoria, British Columbia. In this episode, Kristen and Ciara chat about Ciara's critical discourse analysis of ABA. Ciara has firsthand experience...
14 Feb 202349min
Leslie and Autism Self-Diagnosis
Hear Leslie's story about stumbling upon autism later in life, and the series of aha moments that ensued. Leslie previously worked in animation on feature films such as FernGully: The Last Rainfores...
5 Feb 202345min
Adverse Drug Reactions in Autism
Have you ever heard that autistic people often have adverse or unexpected reactions (or total lack of response) to prescription and over-the-counter medications? Well, it could be genetics, pharmacoge...
30 Jan 202319min
The Medical Versus Social Models of Autism
What's the difference between the medical and social models of autism? And what gave rise to the social model of autism? Topics discussed also include: "Mad pride's" influence on the neurodiversity m...
22 Jan 202321min
Autism's Co-occurring Conditions
I discuss the physical and mental health conditions that often exist alongside autism. Topics discussed also include: The overlap between autism and ADHDThe overlap between autism and being transThe ...
13 Jan 202327min
Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) or Autistic?
Dr. Elaine Aron and her husband coined the term highly sensitive person (HSP) in the 1990s. Since then, her books and online content on the subject have become widely read and discussed. I'm not the f...
15 Okt 202242min
Sensory Processing Differences and Autism
Did you know that most, if not all, autistic people have sensory processing differences and that many have some combination of hyper-reactivity and hypo-reactivity to different types of sensory stimul...
20 Sep 202221min
