![[64] S5, Ep9: Autism and epilepsy, shutdown and dissociation](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Aisling_Walsh-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 5 Mar, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 5
Aisling Walsh is a queer feminist freelance writer and translator and PhD candidate living in Guatemala City. She is 37 and was diagnosed autistic in December 2021 and is self-diagnosed with ADHD. She was also diagnosed with epilepsy at 23, but now suspects that her...
![[63] S5, Ep8: Intersecting identities, neurodivergent families, and inclusion, leadership and representation at work](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Kira-Young-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 26 Feb, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 5
Kira Young is a Native American poet, philosopher, activist and singer from Virginia, USA. She is 52 and was formally diagnosed very recently, after self diagnosing last year. She has held various different roles, both in corporations and the US Government, but her...
![[59] S5, Ep4: Getting an autism diagnosis while doing a PhD in autism and parenting an autistic child](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Gilly-McKeown-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 29 Jan, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 5
Gilly McKeown is an autism researcher in Brisbane, Australia. Originally from Manchester in the UK, she is in her thirties and was diagnosed autistic in 2021, when she was already more than halfway through her PhD in autism. She also has suspected ADHD, and is a...
![[52] S4, Ep9: Dropping the mask and finding your core self after autism diagnosis](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Ann-Molgaard-1080x675.png)
by Amy Richards | 23 Oct, 2021 | Podcast episodes, Season 4
Ann Mølgaard is a teacher at a sixth form college in Copenhagen in Denmark. She is 34 and was diagnosed autistic and ADHD in May this year, after being told that her initial referral had been declined because she was “too high functioning”. Since her diagnosis, she...
![[51] S4, Ep8: Diagnosis difficulties, toxic workplaces and discovering joyful and purposeful work](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Suzi-Payton-1080x675.png)
by Amy Richards | 16 Oct, 2021 | Podcast episodes, Season 4
Suzi Payton is a life coach, stand-up comedian, comedy improvisation teacher and autism trainer from Brighton in the UK. She is 46 and has been diagnosed with ‘clinically significant autistic traits’, but believes that her lifelong masking has prevented her from...
