Podcast 0005; Season 01, Episode 05; April 24, 2018 The “unwritten curriculum” of social interactions penalizes autistic students and others with differences in the classroom setting. Teachers are trained to foster active and engaged communities, valuing peer interactions, and class participation. The emphasis on social skills draws attention to the…
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Editing the transcripts for The Autistic Me Podcast was a cruel reminder that I need new glasses. The automatic transcription service Descript using AI, which means the transcription is imperfect. Plus, I edit the transcripts for clarity because I believe verbatim transcripts often impede understanding. I’ve needed glasses since a winter in…
Podcast 0002; Season 01, Episode 02; April 9, 2018 I have five interview-based episodes recorded, and I was certain that one of the interviews would be this week’s episode. However, I ended up working on several other projects and ran out of time to post the planned episode featuring Lu…
Podcast 0001; Season 01, Episode 01; April 3, 2018 Transcript (lightly edited) Welcome to The Autistic Me Podcast. I’m Christopher Scott Wyatt. The Autistic Me Podcast complements and extends the existing Autistic Me blog. When I started the blog in 2007, the online format reached a wide audience and was…
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…
Podcasts are better with more than one host. They are also better with humor, some differences of opinion, and guests. The Autistic Me podcasts will need to an audience to justify the time and any financial costs. Audiences don’t want to listen to me drone on for ten minutes or…
In a few ways, 2016 has been (with a nod to a great children’s book) a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year for my wife and me. We have had medical issues, I have not had a full-time job, and a pair of accidents took our Jeep out of…