![152 [S11 E7] Sparkly things and heavy loads: autistic menopause, academia and lived experience](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Rachel-Moseley-episode-art-1080x675.jpg)
by Laura Shakesby | 30 May, 2026 | Podcast episodes, Season 11
Dr Rachel Mosely was halfway through her second postdoctoral job in autism research when she learnt that she herself had been suspected as being autistic as a child. After some investigation, she was assessed and diagnosed at the Lorna Wing Centre, aged 28. Ten years...
![124 [Bonus] Autism and therapy: connection, validation and using our strengths to heal our lives](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cloie-Parfitt-wide-Bonus-1080x675.jpg)
by Laura Shakesby | 21 Sep, 2024 | Bonus Episodes, Podcast episodes, Season 9
This is the third and final in my miniseries of bonus ‘revisit’ episodes, in which I reconnect with guests from previous seasons. This week, I talk with psychotherapist Cloie Parfitt, who I first talked to a couple of years ago, in the summer of 2022. Cloie is...
![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....
![117 [S9 E12] Transcendence, reinvention and self discovery: reconnecting with our essential autistic self later in life](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rose-Matthews-1080x675.jpg)
by Laura Shakesby | 6 Apr, 2024 | Podcast episodes, Season 9
Rose Matthews is an Autism Researcher, peer reviewer, consultant, presenter, trainer, and writer from Durham in the UK. Now 64, they first realised they might be autistic at 58 – and finally ‘found the answer to a lifetime of confusion’. Their long journey to...
![109 [S9 E4] Little glimpses underneath the mask: unravelling people-pleasing and imposter syndrome](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Gemma-Gray-wide-artwork--1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 13 Jan, 2024 | Podcast episodes, Season 9
Gemma Gray is a strategic marketing consultant from Edinburgh in Scotland. She left her long-term role following a burnout two years ago and became self-employed. She is a parent to an autistic daughter, and was diagnosed herself in March this year, aged 46. Still in...
