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by Laura Shakesby | 1 Nov, 2025 | Podcast episodes, Season 10
Kara Nash is a registered nurse and autism consultant who focuses on creating positive change in how the healthcare system treats people on the spectrum. Kara has over twenty years’ experience working in the field of autism and mental health. Now 50, she was diagnosed...
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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...
![112 [S9 E7] Why the system is thwarting autistic people: reimagining neurodivergent health – with Dr Mel Houser](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Dr-Mel-Houser-wide-artwork-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 2 Mar, 2024 | Podcast episodes, Season 9
Dr Mel Houser is a family physician in Montpelier, Vermont in the United States, with a clinical focus on providing medical care for neurodivergent patients across the lifespan. Now 40, she was diagnosed autistic two years ago, following a burnout – and at the...
![[95] S8 E3: Shelving the quest for normal: reframing, regulating, and removing the stigma from autism](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Ebonie-Allard-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 15 Apr, 2023 | Podcast episodes, Season 8
Ebonie Allard is an award-winning International Master Coach, an author, and an artist. Now in her early 40s, she was mostly raised in the UK, but before she was seven years old she had lived in a house truck, on a commune, in France, New Zealand, Ireland, and...
![[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...
