The Squarepeg Podcast

135 [S10 E7] A blessing and a curse: autism, masking and miscommunication

My guest this week is Clara Törnvall, an author and journalist who lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her two children. Clara was diagnosed autistic five years ago at age 42, leading her to write her fir...

27 Sep 202559min

134 [S10 E6] Making your body a nicer place to live: autism and a different approach to physical fitness

** We're taking a 2-week mid-season break – new episodes will start again on Saturday 27 September ** Leighanne Stephens is a fitness and lifestyle coach for neurodivergent women and non binary people...

6 Sep 20251h 4min

133 [S10 E5] The Mess and the Magic: from the good girl narrative to autistic self compassion

Dr Michelle McQuaid is a wellbeing researcher in her early 50s. She lives and works in Melbourne, Australia, where she is an honorary fellow at Melbourne University's Center for Wellbeing Science. Mic...

30 Aug 202559min

132 [S10 E4] "Layers of unravelling": autism, leadership and belonging with Kirsty Cullen-Campanelli

Kirsty Cullen-Campanelli is Head Of People Ops, Comms And Employee Engagement at Apple. She was diagnosed autistic two years ago at 38. Kirsty's story began on a council estate in southern England, w...

23 Aug 20251h 7min

131 [S10 E3] Working at the edge of what we know: autism, trauma and identity

My guest today is Dr Stephanie Aspin - a therapist, educator, and writer in her late 50s, based in Norwich, UK. Originally from Willesden in London, her background in a multicultural, working-class co...

16 Aug 20251h 5min

130 [S10 E2] "Whenever I fell, autism caught me": autism, intersex and gender

Deborah discovered they were autistic in their 60s, after a lifetime of not fitting in anywhere. Their sense of difference was not just social, but physical, as in their teens they were diagnosed with...

9 Aug 20251h 1min

129 [S10 E1] "I thought I was just disorders": navigating autistic and ADHD traits and challenges - with Mrs AuDHD

Sam Brown, AKA Mrs AuDHD, is late-diagnosed AuDHD, a trustee of the ADHDadultUK charity and co-presenter of The ADHD Adults podcast, that deals with a different ADHD related topic each episode. On the...

2 Aug 20251h 4min

128. Art and autism math: healing and connecting after a late autism diagnosis

Elinor Trier describes herself as a "Sparkly Champion of Neurodivergent and Queer Joy". She's a neuroqueer AuDHD artist, writer, podcaster, YouTuber, and founder of Elinor Trier Studio, where she crea...

3 Maj 202558min