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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...
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by Amy Richards | 9 Mar, 2024 | Podcast episodes, Season 9
Marisa Hamamoto is a leading voice in disability inclusion, professional dancer and founder of Infinite Flow, an award-winning dance company and nonprofit that employs disabled and nondisabled dancers with a mission to create a more inclusive world, one dance at a...
![[73] S6, Ep6: Building a more authentic autistic life and relationships, and managing health and energy.](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Solgunn-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 18 Jun, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 6
Solgunn is a life coach from Oslo in Norway. She is 45 and was diagnosed autistic very recently, in April, following her husband’s diagnosis last year. She has spent most of her working life in IT, web design, project management and consultancy, but after an...
![[70] S6, Ep3: ‘Not autistic enough’: disability discrimination and intersectionality](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Aishah-Nyeta-cover-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 28 May, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 6
Aishah-Nyeta is an advocate for climate, race, and disability justice from Virginia in the USA. She says she grew up feeling ‘stupid’ and different from her peers due to her dyscalculia and the social challenges of her undiagnosed autism. Now 25, she was diagnosed...
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by Amy Richards | 14 May, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 6
Amy Lee Lillard is co-host of a feminist book podcast, and also an author; her first book, Dig Me Out, a collection of short stories, was published in 2021. Now 44, she lives in Des Moines, Iowa in the USA and was diagnosed autistic just last year. She wrote her book...
