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...
by Amy Richards | 25 Sep, 2021 | Podcast episodes, Season 4
Kathy Carter is a writer and neurodiversity-affirming hypnotherapist. She was diagnosed autistic herself in 2017, after realising that her son was probably autistic. She in her 40s and lives in Kent in the UK. She works with neurodivergent, highly sensitive and...
by Amy Richards | 24 Apr, 2021 | Podcast episodes, Season 3
Scottish comedian Fern Brady was diagnosed autistic in January this year, in her 30s, after a series of meltdowns caused her to seek answers. She has been open about her diagnosis from the start, when a throwaway tweet about it went unexpectedly viral. Fern started...
by Amy Richards | 13 Mar, 2021 | Podcast episodes, Season 2
Deborah Cullinan was diagnosed autistic about 10 years ago. She is a psychotherapist in her early 60s, working in a busy CAMHS clinic (that’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) in Hertfordshire in the UK. Deborah started her career as an artist and art...
by Amy Richards | 30 Jan, 2021 | Podcast episodes, Season 2
My guest today is 30 and was diagnosed autistic about five years ago. She is Indian-American and lives in the US, where she works full time in tech and also as a freelance writer, after spending years moving quickly between different jobs. She has experienced various...