Podcast Episode 0058; Season 4, Episode 22, March 2, 2021 Catherine (“Cat”) Guimard-Payen provides life coaching to autistic women, but that’s not why I asked her to join us on The Autistic Me Podcast. Catherine is also autistic and the parent of four Neurodiverse children, two with autism and two…
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My wife and I have two neurodiverse young daughters. The girls are in the first and third grades, ages at which doctors verify or revise diagnoses. As parents, we reference my experiences with the health and education systems to evaluate the services provided to the girls. Reading Rosie Weldon’s autobiography…
Podcast 048; Season 4, Episode 12; November 17, 2020 What I’ve Learned about Teaching I’ve learned a lot about teaching over the last 30 years. Like everyone else, I’ve been learning about teaching since my first day as a student. Unfortunately, the lessons suggest that education is broken, and so…
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…
I love the crime drama Vincent, a tightly-written series that ran on ITV in 2005 and 2006. There’s talk of a revival of the series, which is performing well on Amazon Prime and other streaming services. I recommended the series to friends after watching the first two episodes. Following episode three,…
And here we are again… Autism Awareness Day. My Apple News, Facebook, and Google News feeds all feature a dozen or more stories on autism, from the Struggling Parent profile to the Amazing Aspie interview. There are also familiar names in the media stories, the known people from the autistic…
The Autistic Me Podcast, long-delayed but almost ready to launch. I am writing to seek your support and possible participation in my latest advocacy effort. Are you an autistic individual who wants to share a story? Are you a partner of an autistic individual, and might you both want to…