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by Laura Shakesby | 6 Apr, 2024 | Podcast episodes, Season 9
Rose Matthews is an Autism Researcher, peer reviewer, consultant, presenter, trainer, and writer from Durham in the UK. Now 64, they first realised they might be autistic at 58 – and finally ‘found the answer to a lifetime of confusion’. Their long journey to...
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by Laura Shakesby | 16 Mar, 2024 | Podcast episodes, Season 9
Anissa Ljanta is a writer, a neurodivergent specialist coach, educator and equity and inclusion advocate living in the remote hills of a wild surf beach in West Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She grew up in Samoa and South Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand, where she...
![[101] S8 E9: From psychiatric trauma to autistic joy: a journey of healing and self discovery](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Laura-Richmond-1080x675.jpg)
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...
![[94] S8 E2: The sensory and social challenges of fitting into a new culture as an autistic adult](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Karawynn-Long-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 8 Apr, 2023 | Podcast episodes, Season 8
Karawynn Long is an American writer and proofreader living in Mexico. Now 52, she had what she describes as her ‘Autism epiphany’ just over three years ago, a few months before her fiftieth birthday. She is self identified as autistic, partly due to formal assessments...
![[93] S8, E1: Sport and fitness the autistic way: from not fitting in to feeling like a superhero](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Mandy-Williams-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 1 Apr, 2023 | Podcast episodes, Season 8
Mandy Williams is a Volunteer Coordinator with Scottish Women’s Autism and a competitive athlete. Originally from Manchester in the UK, she now lives in Stirling in Scotland. She was diagnosed autistic two years ago, aged 45. She is passionate about exercise, and her...
