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![[92] S7, Ep12: Fern Brady: Compassion for my autistic self: gender expectations, troubleshooting traits, and unmasking on TV](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Fern-Brady-EP92-400x250.jpg)
Fern Brady is a comedian and writer born and raised in Bathgate in Scotland. Now in her 30s, she lives in London with her partner. Fern was a guest on the podcast back in the spring of 2021, soon after she was diagnosed autistic. Since then, she taken a deep dive...
![[91] S7, Ep11: Relaxing into the truth of who we are as late diagnosed autistic adults](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Angela-Lauria-400x250.jpg)
Angela Lauria is a CEO and author from Washington DC, USA. Now 49, she was diagnosed autistic 10 years ago, and initially underwent a form of the controversial ABA therapy in an effort to ‘fix’ the things about her that she had always felt were wrong. One burnout,...
![[90] S7, Ep10: Burnouts, breakdowns and anxiety: a journey towards more supportive and sustainable work](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Dea-Neile-Hopton-400x250.jpg)
Déa Neile-Hopton is a basket maker and artist. She is of mixed Jamaican and English heritage and grew up in the 1970s and 80s in York, England. Now 47, she lives in Whitland in Wales, with her partner and three neurodivergent children. She is self diagnosed autistic...
![[89] S7, Ep9: ‘Outsider’ identities: the intertwining of gender, sexuality and autism](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Kelly-McCartney-epsiode-art-V2-400x250.jpg)
Kelly McCartney is a music journalist from Rhode Island, USA. She is 52 and self-diagnosed as autistic in April of 2022. She has turned a life-long special interest in music into an incredibly varied, 30-year career in almost every area of the music industry,...
![[88] S7, Ep8: Making art out of darkness: self acceptance, resilience and radical unmasking as an autistic counsellor](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Audrey-Mitchell-2022-400x250.jpg)
Audrey Mitchell is a counsellor with a private practise in Idaho, USA. She was diagnosed autistic in 2020, around the same time as her teenage daughter, and the last two years have been a time of processing and learning to accept herself as she is, and unmask in both...
![[87] S7, Ep7: Autism in mental health services: the experience of a late diagnosed autistic mental health nurse](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Jacqui-ORiordan-Season-7-400x250.jpg)
Jacqui O’Riordan is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner from Harrogate, North Yorkshire in the UK. She has worked as a mental health nurse for almost 20 years, including working in a secure unit with chronically ill patients. She has worked in crisis assessment with...
![[86] S7, Ep6: Narrative therapy: reflections on an autistic experience of mental health inpatient services](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Alexis-Quinn-400x250.jpg)
Alexis Quinn is a mother, author, educator and former teacher who spent three and a half years in inpatient services following a mental health breakdown in her mid twenties. 14 months into this period, aged 27, she was diagnosed autistic by chance, when an Autism...
![[85] S7, Ep5: Autistic motherhood: working through the overwhelm of birth and parenting](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Sanna-Ostergren-400x250.jpg)
Sanna Östergren is a writer and literary translator from Sweden. She lives in the countryside with her husband and their two-year-old son, where she also runs a small independent publishing company. She realised she was autistic about a year ago, when the overwhelm of...
![[84] S7, Ep4: Direct communication: navigating social and personal relationships as a highly sensitive autistic woman](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Janet-Murray-400x250.jpg)
Janet Murray is a content strategist who lives near London in the UK. She was recently diagnosed autistic, after first getting a diagnosis of ADHD in 2020. A former journalist and PR coach, Janet has written for many national publications, is the host of the...
![[83] S7, Ep3: Psychology as a special interest: relationships, research and educational equity](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Janelle-Johnson-400x250.jpg)
Janelle Johnson is an Inclusion Strategist, therapist and researcher from North Carolina, USA. She is self diagnosed and her son is also autistic. She has recently taken a step back from practising as a therapist to focus on her research as a PhD student and graduate...
![[82] S7, Ep2: God as a special interest: deconstructing religious identity as a newly identified autistic](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/D-L-Mayfield-400x250.jpg)
D.L. Mayfield is a freelance writer from Portland, USA. She has written for Christian publications in the US for over 10 years, and is the author of several books, the latest of which, Unruly Saint, explores the life and work of the late American journalist, social...
![[81] S7, Ep1: The challenge of creating the life you want when you diverge from the neurotypical ‘norm’](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kate-Tomas-400x250.jpg)
My guest this week is Dr Kate Tomas, a Spiritual Mentor who lives in mid Wales in the UK. Kate developed powerful psychic abilities from an early age, and by 22 had built a thriving international practice as a witch, healer and psychic for individuals, multinational...
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