Being Autistic

After an Autism diagnosis, should you tell your friends, family, employer, or future employer? In this episode, I give my personal experience with disclosing my diagnosis with others and give a little insight to what other Autistic people have shared about this topic.

In this episode, I talk about how Autism traits can change throughout your life. Does Autism get better or worse as you get older? You will most likely have different struggles as a child, as a teenager, as an adult, and as a middle-aged adult, and I'll talk about my experience and what you can expect with each of those phases of life.

Is talk therapy effective for Autism? I've been going to talk therapy for about 5 years and in this episode I'll talk about my experience with it, what I think talk therapy is good for and what it isn't good for when it comes to Autistic people.

Most Autistics have something called special interests; What are they? How are they different from normal interests? In this video I share everything I know about special interests.

Many Autistic people struggle with paperwork, forms, and other legal stuff. In this episode, I talk about why these things are so difficult for many Autistic people, including myself.

This episode dives into the controversial topic about Autism and disability. Of course, Level 2 and 3 Autism (low functioning) requires much more support than Level 1 (high functioning) but in this episode I'm going to talk about high functioning Autism and the various opinions about whether or not it's a disability.

There can be as many different examples of masking as there are different Autistic people, but many of them are common. In this episode, I explain what masking is and talk about the most common types of masking and give examples plus my personal experience with masking. I also talk about how you can unmask.

Mentioned in this episode: 

My Printable Autism Workbook on Etsy

Bite Sized Autism by Dana Waters (my FAVORITE book on Autism!) (This is an affiliate link; any purchase you make earns me a small commission; thank you!)

Music is a form of stimming, self soothing; it is also healing to anyone, not just Autistic people. But Autistic people are often drawn to music for deeper reasons than just mere entertainment. For some, including myself, music is life. 

Download the Autism Workbook here on Etsy

In this episode, I talk about ABA Therapy (Applied Behavior Analysis) which is commonly used to force children into being neurotypical. I go through a brief history of how this came to be and why it is so controversial. I also talk a bit about the mental health therapy system in America and my opinion on why it is not designed for Autistic people.

In this episode, I go through my lists of things that make the world hard to live in for Autistic people, and on the flip side I go through their opposites which would make the world better for us and everyone. These things generally come down to natural vs. man-made things. This episode has a ranty feel to it, because I get riled up knowing that if only the world was different, not only would Autistics not struggle but nobody would.