![[92] S7, Ep12: Fern Brady: Compassion for my autistic self: gender expectations, troubleshooting traits, and unmasking on TV](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Fern-Brady-EP92-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 10 Dec, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
Fern Brady is a comedian and writer born and raised in Bathgate in Scotland. Now in her 30s, she lives in London with her partner. Fern was a guest on the podcast back in the spring of 2021, soon after she was diagnosed autistic. Since then, she taken a deep dive...
![[91] S7, Ep11: Relaxing into the truth of who we are as late diagnosed autistic adults](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Angela-Lauria-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 3 Dec, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
Angela Lauria is a CEO and author from Washington DC, USA. Now 49, she was diagnosed autistic 10 years ago, and initially underwent a form of the controversial ABA therapy in an effort to ‘fix’ the things about her that she had always felt were wrong. One burnout,...
![[86] S7, Ep6: Narrative therapy: reflections on an autistic experience of mental health inpatient services](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Alexis-Quinn-1080x675.jpg)
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...
![[85] S7, Ep5: Autistic motherhood: working through the overwhelm of birth and parenting](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Sanna-Ostergren-1080x675.jpg)
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...
![[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, USA, 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...
