Last updated on November 26, 2023
Podcast Episode 0079, Season 5, Episode 10; 14 December 2021
Jude Morrow on Loving Your Place on the Spectrum, a book about autistics being their best selves.
From Jude:
Loving Your Place on the Spectrum is a guide for living a happy and successful autistic life. Jude combines his own experiences as an autistic man with the stories of others to provide a handbook to help autistic individuals navigate life’s major changes, from childhood to college, jobs, and relationships. Each chapter identifies common issues faced by autistic people of a particular age or social group and explains how educators, teachers, parents, and professionals can be supportive through all these life stages.
The world needs a new perspective on autism, and Jude Morrow’s Loving Your Place on the Spectrum provides parents, workplaces, individuals, and society an alternative, strengths-based viewpoint, where autistic people are accepted, embraced, and loved.
Jude Morrow is an autistic entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, consultant, philanthropist, and the founder of Neurodiversity Training International, the world’s premier neurodiversity-led training and consulting firm (neurodiversity-training.com). In 2001, Jude was diagnosed autistic at the age of eleven, after having been viewed as having communication and social difficulties. His journey to becoming a proud autistic adult is chronicled in his first book Why Does Daddy Always Look So Sad?, which also follows Jude’s experience of being an autistic dad to his non-autistic son, Ethan. Jude graduated with an honors degree in social work in 2012 and brings his personal and professional experiences to all the work he does.
Loving Your Place on the Spectrum (978-1-58270-833-1) was released from Beyond Words Publishing on September 14, 2021.
- Neurodiversity Training International (neurodiversity-training.com)
- Why Does Daddy Always Look So Sad? (https://amzn.to/3DWw7HZ)
- Loving Your Place on the Spectrum (https://amzn.to/3IP1CHo)
Transcript
Hello and welcome to The Autistic Me Podcast. I am your host Christopher Scott Wyatt, an ambivalent autistic, at best. As my blog tagline has stated since 2007, the blog and podcast are not all of me, but they are the autistic me.
You can imagine my hesitation when I was asked to read a book with the title, Loving Your Place on the Spectrum. Before responding to the request, I searched for information on the book’s author.
It was the title of his first book that persuaded me to invite Jude Morrow to the podcast. Why Does Daddy Always Look So Sad? the title asks, a question posed by Jude’s son. My daughters have heard variations of that question many times. “Why doesn’t your father smile more?”
Reading Loving Your Place on the Spectrum, I was pleasantly surprised that the work is a collection of autistic experiences. Jude has included other voices and perspectives, representing the spectrum more fully than some authors have. Several autistics contributed essays to the book.
Jude works to promote inclusion all people as the founder of Neurodiversity Training International. He is also the host of the Neurodiversity Gold podcast, and, of course, a father.
I will invite Jude to tell us more about his background and work as an autistic advocate.
It’s a pleasure to welcome to the podcast, Jude Morrow.
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