Podcast Episode 0023; Season 02, Episode 09; November 5, 2018 Heather Conroy, the co-founder of Evolve Coaching, discusses coaching autistic individuals as they develop life and employment skills. Visit Evolve on the web at https://www.evolve-coaching.org: Evolve is committed to helping adults with autism and other developmental disabilities and differences show…
Category: Employment
Posts on the employment challenges faced by autistics.
Podcast 0020; Season 02, Episode 06; October 16, 2018 Joe Farrell discusses the Joey Travolta Film Camp, Arts for Autism, and Evolve coaching. Joe moved to Pittsburgh in 2008 to pursue his Master’s of Science in Education and Community Agency Counseling degree from Duquesne University and began working with children and young…
I wrote in my last blog post that teaching was taking a toll on my body. Friday night, I ended up in the emergency room after coughing blood for several hours. Blood is usually not a good sign. After x-rays, CT scans, and various tests, it was decided I have…
Neglecting The Autistic Me blog and podcast was not my intention with my return to teaching, but that’s been one of the costs. Trying to triage my schedule and to-do list has required prioritizing teaching duties — particularly grading — that require far more than 40 hours per week. Teaching,…
Podcast 0017; Season 02, Episode 03; September 18, 2018 Autistic visual artist and advocate Bobby Roma discusses the ways in which autistics are devalued by society because our thinking processes seem strange to others. We’re called “immature” and told we lack “depth,” yet sometimes our concrete clarity is exactly what’s needed to…
Approaching middle-age (50 years) as an autistic adult can be a miserable, difficult journey. For me, it has been one perceived failure after another. It can be difficult to see the great things in life when I look only at my career path. Thankfully, I have an incredible wife and…
Episode 16 of The Autistic Me Podcast is incredible. I interviewed visual artist Bobby Roma, who has experiences and opinions that contrast to those offered by Grayson in episode 16. The interview with Bobby lasted over an hour and I’m editing the podcast down to approximately 40 to 45 minutes. During the…
Podcast 0016; Season 02, Episode 02, September 11, 2018 Interview with visual artist Bobby Roma, part one. Bobby reflects on his experiences in the workplace and his pursuit of a career in the film industry. Bobby and I share a passion for filmmaking and the visual arts. We’re also close in age,…
My 2012 MacBook Pro has been having problems for almost a year, but I’ve managed to keep it running as other systems in our house finally failed. I’ve had the case apart a few times, which you can thankfully do with the older MacBook Pro. The system tends to overheat…
Podcast 0012; Season 01, Episode 12; June 12, 2018 During the summer months, I need to ease off some of my workload to better manage time with family. After this podcast was recorded, I found that I did need to take a break from our littlest one’s pre-K graduation because…