Episode 8: Avoiding Harm for the Holidays
In this episode Jeanne (she/her) shares quotes from autistics about things they wish others understood about being autistic and the holidays, along with suggestions for both autistics and others on ways to reduce stress around issues such as changes to routine, new social environments, different food, and more.
Episode 7: Neurodiversity (and Other Models), Part 1
In this episode Jeanne (she/her) introduces several common ways of viewing disability and differences, including the medical, social, neurodiversity, and deficit models, and highlights the pros and cons of each. The neurodiversity lens holds that neurological differences are a natural part of biodiversity and should not be thought of as inherently inferior to what is considered typical.
Episode 6: Food, Eating, and Autism
In this episode Jeanne (she/her) looks at an autistic’s perspective of eating struggles both through research and personal experience, how this connects to eating disorders, and gives some suggestions for ways to improve autistic eating experiences. She is joined by past guest Gigi (she/her) talking about how texture impacts relationships with food and Katie (they/their) discusses their experiences both with food and treatment for anorexia.
Episode 5: Autistic Communication Part 3: The Double Empathy Problem
A classic diagnostic trait of autism is “deficits in social communication.” However, as past episodes have highlighted, many new studies are showing that this is more a case of autistics and non-autistics struggling to communicate with each other, with both sides failing to interpret differences. By viewing autistic communication through the lens of this double empathy problem rather than as an autistic deficit, and through examining new research highlighting ways in which autistics communicate effectively with each other, non-autistic teachers, therapists, and caregivers can help meet autistics halfway and create more supportive and effective relationships. Jeanne (she/her) speaks with fellow autistics Katie (they/them) and previous guest Amanda (she/her) about their experiences about this disconnect between autistic and non-autistic perspectives.
Resources and Recommendations
AWN fournit une communauté, un soutien et des ressources pour les femmes, les filles, les personnes transféminines et transmasculines non binaires autistes, les personnes trans de tous les genres, les personnes bispirituelles et toutes les autres personnes de genre marginalisé. Le site Web comprend des ressources pour les autistes, les parents d'autistes et des informations détaillées sur l'autisme, en particulier du point de vue des personnes qui ne sont souvent pas incluses dans les stéréotypes autistes concernant le sexe, la race et l'âge.
Réseau des femmes autistes et non binaires (AWN)
Réseau d'auto-représentation des autistes
L'Autistic Self Advocacy Network est également sur Facebook et Twitter et cherche à faire avancer les principes du mouvement pour les droits des personnes handicapées en ce qui concerne l'autisme et à organiser la communauté autiste pour garantir que nos voix soient entendues dans la conversation nationale à notre sujet. Le site Web comprend un large éventail de ressources sur la recherche, le soutien et la communauté autistes.
Les Autisticats : Trois jeunes adultes autistes, découvrant la vie et partageant nos expériences en tant que personnes neurodivergentes.
The Black Autist : The Black Autist est un blog où les articles sont axés sur l'acceptation de l'autisme et les problèmes et actualités entourant l'autisme #peopleofcolor
AutisticSciencePerson : (Ils/Eux), Étudiant autiste diagnostiqué tardivement en neurosciences.
Kerima (Vaccine Equity) Cevik : Créateur de #AutisticWhileBlack, #AutisticAphorism. Blogs et donne des conférences sur la neurodivergence, la race et la facilitation pour leurs besoins élevés en matière de soutien, leur progéniture autiste.
