![138 [S10 E10] Working with our ocean and our tides: the impact of autism self identification](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Lara-Schaeffer-Episode-art-1-1080x675.jpg)
by Laura Shakesby | 18 Oct, 2025 | Podcast episodes, Season 10
Lara Schaeffer taught high school English for 28 years until her autism identification at age 47 – and her school’s resistance to her being open about her autism to her students. She waited three years for them to change their stance, before eventually leaving...
![[97] S8 E5: Finding logic in chaos, burnout, and reconnecting with our internal compass and autistic joy](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Martine-van-Bijlert-1-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 29 Apr, 2023 | Podcast episodes, Season 8
Martine van Bijlert is a writer and researcher from the Netherlands. Now 52, she grew up in Iran and worked in places like Kabul, Grozny and Tehran as an aid worker, diplomat and researcher. She now divides her time between her own creative projects and her work for...
![[96] S8 E4: Safety, community and representation for Black and minority ethnic / global majority autistic people](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Naomi-Clarke-wide-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 22 Apr, 2023 | Podcast episodes, Season 8
Naomi Clarke is a freelance writer, community mentor, fundraiser and Human Design reader. She self diagnosed as autistic around two years ago, but due to inequality in the medical system has so far not been able to get a formal diagnosis. She describes herself as an...
![[90] S7, Ep10: Burnouts, breakdowns and anxiety: a journey towards more supportive and sustainable work](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Dea-Neile-Hopton-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 26 Nov, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
Déa Neile-Hopton is a basket maker and artist. She is of mixed Jamaican and English heritage and grew up in the 1970s and 80s in York, England. Now 47, she lives in Whitland in Wales, with her partner and three neurodivergent children. She is self diagnosed autistic...
![[89] S7, Ep9: ‘Outsider’ identities: the intertwining of gender, sexuality and autism](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Kelly-McCartney-epsiode-art-V2-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 19 Nov, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
Kelly McCartney is a music journalist from Rhode Island, USA. She is 52 and self-diagnosed as autistic in April of 2022. She has turned a life-long special interest in music into an incredibly varied, 30-year career in almost every area of the music industry,...
