by Amy Richards | 22 Feb, 2025 | 2025 eps, Podcast episodes
Malori talks about her experience of spending seven years being given various misdiagnoses and being medicated and treated for conditions that she didn’t have. Now, with the knowledge that she is autistic, Malori reflects back on her journey through the mental...
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by Amy Richards | 6 Jan, 2024 | Podcast episodes, Season 9
Naomi Ghafoor is a mental health activist who has spent over a decade battling the mental healthcare system and dealing with misdiagnoses, negligence and systemic abuse, which recently led to her suing her NHS mental health trust earlier this year. Now 26, she works...
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by Amy Richards | 23 Dec, 2023 | Podcast episodes, Season 9
Dr Megan Anna Neff is a neurodivergent Clinical Psychologist from Portland, Oregon, in the USA. She has a small private practice specialising in neurodivergent-affirming therapy and is the founder of Neurodivergent Insights, where she creates education and wellness...
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by Amy Richards | 27 May, 2023 | Podcast episodes, Season 8
Laura Richmond is a writer and researcher from Southampton in the UK. Now 35, she was diagnosed autistic last year. She had an extremely difficult road to diagnosis. Social and emotional struggles in childhood led to her being in and out of the psychiatric system...
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by Amy Richards | 16 Oct, 2021 | Podcast episodes, Season 4
Suzi Payton is a life coach, stand-up comedian, comedy improvisation teacher and autism trainer from Brighton in the UK. She is 46 and has been diagnosed with ‘clinically significant autistic traits’, but believes that her lifelong masking has prevented her from...
