Author, attorney, and self-advocate Haley Moss explains autistic joy, and how to be supportive of it.

Haley Moss was diagnosed with autism at age 3. She graduated with her Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law in 2018, and graduated from the University of Florida in 2015 with Bachelors degrees in Psychology and Criminology. She is a renowned visual pop artist and the author of Middle School: The Stuff Nobody Tells You About and A Freshman Survival Guide for College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Stuff Nobody Tells You About. She also was the illustrator and a contributor for the Autism Women’s Network anthology What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew. Her writing has been featured in HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Elite Daily, The Mighty, and other websites and publications.

For more about Haley’s work: https://haleymoss.com/

For Haley’s show Spectrumly Speaking: https://differentbrains.org/spectrumly-speaking-page/

Here is an example of the emotion wheel Haley mentions: https://feelingswheel.com/

For more about host Dr. Jennie Trocchio: https://www.drjennie.co/

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