![[80] Bonus: Grief and validation: repairing the damage of autistic masking and finding a sense of self](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Aisha-Edwards-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 13 Aug, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 6
Aisha Edwards is a somatic trauma therapist, podcaster and writer from Vancouver, Washington, and was diagnosed autistic last year, aged 39. Somatic trauma therapy is a body-centred approach to treating post-traumatic stress disorder that rather than focusing only on...
![[77] S6, Ep10: Burnout, survival and feeling stuck: the intersection of autism, privilege and poverty](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Alma-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 16 Jul, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 6
Alma is an unemployed forager, food designer, artist, craftswoman and permaculture gardener from the Netherlands. She was diagnosed autistic in 2019 after self identifying the year before; she has also since been diagnosed with ADHD. When her then undiagnosed autistic...
![[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...
![[68] S6, Ep1: Writing it out: autism and shame, memory, sexuality and self expression](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Amy-Lee-Lillard-1080x675.jpg)
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...
![[66] S5, Ep11: A life-saving autism diagnosis: BPD, eating disorders and an autistic experience of the mental health system](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Chloe_Slater-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 19 Mar, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 5
Content warning: Chloe and I cover some challenging topics in this episode, including eating disorders, self harm, medical trauma, suicidal ideation and suicide. So if you would rather not hear about these topics, you might not want to listen to this one. Chloe Slater...
