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by Laura Shakesby | 18 Jul, 2026 | Podcast episodes, Season 11
Carolyn Kiel is the host of Beyond 6 Seconds, a multi-award-winning neurodiversity podcast. She started her podcast in 2018 as a general interest interview show, but in 2022 she shifted the focus to neurodiversity, after receiving an autism diagnosis in her mid-40s....
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by Laura Shakesby | 9 Aug, 2025 | Podcast episodes, Season 10
Deborah discovered they were autistic in their 60s, after a lifetime of not fitting in anywhere. Their sense of difference was not just social, but physical, as in their teens they were diagnosed with CAUV – congenital absence of uterus and vagina. Because of their...
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by Amy Richards | 23 Jul, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 6
Claire Gardener is a homeopath and primary school teacher in London in the UK. She is 45 and self diagnosed as autistic five years ago, after experiencing burnout in her teaching role. A special interest in children’s literature lead to her first career in book...
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by Amy Richards | 2 Jul, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 6
Nadia Dillon is a software engineer and entrepreneur from London in the UK. Diagnosed autistic at 27, after experiencing a burnout, she is now 30, and her brilliantly insightful – and beautiful – Instagram account about her post-diagnosis journey has grown...
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by Amy Richards | 18 Sep, 2021 | Podcast episodes, Season 4
Yenn Purkis is an inspirational autistic and non-binary author, advocate, public speaker and community leader from Canberra in Australia. They also have a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Their journey has taken them from serving time in prison, poverty and...
