![145 [Bonus] “An overarching, big life project”: interconnecting special interests, memory and mental health](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Laura-Richmond-episode-art-1080x675.png)
by Laura Shakesby | 21 Mar, 2026 | Bonus Episodes, Podcast episodes, Season 10
Laura Richmond is a writer, researcher and doll restorer from Southampton in the UK. She was my guest on the podcast in 2023. When we spoke then, it was just a year on from her autism diagnosis, and she was on the brink of publishing her memoir. So I was delighted to...
![135 [S10 E7] A blessing and a curse: autism, masking and miscommunication](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Clara-Tornvall-Episode-art-1-1080x675.jpg)
by Laura Shakesby | 27 Sep, 2025 | Podcast episodes, Season 10
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 first book, The Autists – Women on the Spectrum, a personal essay...
![132 [S10 E4] “Layers of unravelling”: autism, leadership and belonging with Kirsty Cullen-Campanelli](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Kirsty-Cullen-Campanelli-epsiode-art-1-1080x675.jpg)
by Laura Shakesby | 23 Aug, 2025 | Podcast episodes, Season 10
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, where she grew up in a working-class family alongside foster siblings...
![120: [Bonus] A magic key? Deeper learnings 4 years on from a late autism diagnosis](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sophie-Longley-1080x675.jpg)
by Laura Shakesby | 10 Aug, 2024 | Bonus Episodes, Podcast episodes, Season 9
I recorded this special episode with former Squarepeg guest Sophie Longley. I last spoke with Sophie at the end of 2020, when she was working as an English teacher in Singapore and was about to start her Masters in Experimental psychology at the University of Sussex....
