Hosted by Autism Personal Coach/Doug Blecher · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 458 episodes
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Autism Personal Coach/Doug Blecher hosts Autism Stories, a society show with 458 episodes published.
"Getting to make this show [about The Beatles] is the greatest joy and privilege of my life. A lot of people misunderstand non-speakers with autism, or may not know we exist. Some people may think if we don’t speak, we’r
Show notes"You can be into kink, you can be into the idea of sex, you can even enjoy certain actions related to it and still be on the asexuality spectrum. And that [fact] widened my view", says Sabrina and Kade. Sabrina and Kade
Show notes"My] books don’t have that clinical language. I’m not a therapist, I’m not a professional. I just have the experience of actually living autism every single day with my kids… this is from one parent to another, from one
Show notes"It’s hard enough for most autistic people to connect in the first place. There’s such a hunger to meet other people like ourselves… What I’ve learned is that it’s a lonely journey. People are figuring it out themselves,
Show notes"They enable autistic and other adaptive athletes to run a Boston Marathon with slightly different requirements. [I thought] I’d love to be a part of it. And then a year later, I ran with them", says Shea Belsky. Shea re
Show notes"Kids can look at [Hans Christian Andersen's] story and say, oh wow, here’s this famous author, and he went through this. Oh, there’s hope… not only make it through, but do something that I really love doing", says Sandr
Show notes"No one can truly wrap their head around the horror of living in silence. Finding spelling was the first step to healing", says Talia Zimmerman. Tailia joins this episode to discuss how life changes for non-speakers when
Show notes"I want to build things that last… I want to make sustainable systems. And I want it to be beyond me, that it doesn’t rely on me", says Mandy Pinckley. Mandy joins us to discuss launching neurodivergent peer support grou
Show notes"I always take a lot of breaks, have a lot of snacks, have a lot of fidget toys… in order to prevent that from happening and having a meltdown… I always tell my agency and my managers that my needs have to be met", says
Show notes"This project I’ve been working on recently was actually specifically intended to help leverage AI to bridge communication between neuro types... That’s the idea that AI could potentially help with communication, but I r
Show notes"I would like you all to understand that I am a non-speaker and I spent many years in silence. Many people believed I had very low cognition. I was unable to prove my intelligence up until I was introduced to S2C at the
Show notes"Games really do not have to be that way, or at least they do not have to be inaccessible in ways that feel unnecessary. Accessibility is not about taking something away from gaming. It is about giving more people a way
Show notes"When I started doing comedy, it happened after my autism diagnosis. So that was like a brief grieving period of, oh, you mean to tell me that I was never normal? Like I wasted all this time of my life just struggling to
Show notes"There have been many stories that captured the essence of my experiences, but I haven't found a singular form of representation where it's like all parts of me in one character because I'm so many things", says Tre Wils
Show notes"Sometimes when we accidentally find sensory self-care, it can actually lead to shame. Stimming would be a perfect example of accidental sensory self-care. But then if we've got negative feedback around that, we might ac
Show notes"And we need to dig and uncover the realities, or we're never going to heal. It's not going to happen. And for me, it's not about a reparation. It's more about a restoration of truths. I want the real truth just to be a
Show notes"Water is a precious resource for all communities and war-affected communities even more so. I think when we talk about disasters, war being one of them, what's a lot more important than the disaster itself is the backgr
Show notes"Peace doesn't arrive like a sunrise. It limps in mud caked hollow eyed curled at the edge of my ribs like a sleeping dog I'm afraid to wake. Peace means owning that I'm autistic and also brilliant and also tired of shri
Show notes"Even some of my classmates and coworkers, they've attended colleges for the entertainment industry and learned more here at Exceptional Minds than going through college", says Rafael Rodriguez. Rafael joins this episode
Show notes“And we need to uplift people who truly understand us and not just attempt to speak for us, but really speak over us, people who really are part of our world, who understand us. And I would be the second openly autistic
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Autism Stories is hosted by Autism Personal Coach/Doug Blecher. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 458 episodes.
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