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by Laura Shakesby | 13 Jun, 2026 | Podcast episodes, Season 11
Phoebe Taylor is a Canadian writer and artist whose work attempts to translate the experience of autism from the inside out. ‘Fired from every job she ever had’, she decided to explore self employment during the pandemic. Now 32, she was formally identified as...
![137 [S10 E9] Meeting myself again: sensory needs, autistic joys and building stronger relationships after autism diagnosis](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Marian-Schembari-Episode-art-1080x675.jpg)
by Laura Shakesby | 11 Oct, 2025 | Podcast episodes, Season 10
Marian Schembari is an author and essayist whose first byline was at age eleven. It was a poem about dragons. Since then, her essays about travel, friendship, money, and love have appeared in many well known publications, including The New York Times and Marie Claire....
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by Laura Shakesby | 27 Sep, 2025 | Podcast episodes, Season 10
My guest this week is Clara Törnvall, an author and journalist who lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her two children. Clara was diagnosed autistic five years ago at age 42, leading her to write her first book, The Autists – Women on the Spectrum, a personal essay...
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by Amy Richards | 28 Nov, 2020 | Podcast episodes, Season 1
Artist and writer Charlotte Amelia Poe says they were diagnosed autistic ‘by complete fluke’ when they were 21, after suffering for years with anxiety. In 2018, they won the inaugural Spectrum Art Award with their video piece, How To Be Autistic, and they went on to...
