by Amy Richards | 26 Nov, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
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...
by Lynne Kerr | 12 Nov, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
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...
by Lynne Kerr | 5 Nov, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
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...
by Amy Richards | 29 Oct, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
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...
by Amy Richards | 22 Oct, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
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...