Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDemand Avoidance That's Not PDA
Sometimes we avoid the demands of our everyday lives, even the ones we place on ourselves. It takes a lot of energy to resist doing what needs to be …
2 years ago
Listener Favorites: Executive and Cognitive Functions
When you don’t feel like doing anything it may not be laziness. If you’re autistic it could be due to executive and cognitive functioning. Don’t miss…
2 years ago
Listener Favorites: Face Blindness
Do you have difficulty recognizing people? It’s frustrating to forget someone’s face. It’s not your fault—it’s face blindness also known as prosopagn…
2 years, 1 month ago
A Perspective on Burnout
When the energy needed to provide basic autistic needs is out of balance it can lead to burnout. Hear why autistics are more subject to burnout than …
2 years, 1 month ago
Listener Favorites: Pathological Demand Avoidance
Some people would rather hide than face the demands placed on them by themselves or others. This might be due to autism or a separate condition of it…
2 years, 1 month ago
Why Autistics Pick the Wrong Partner
Autism affects how autistics experience relationships by definition. Some of the best traits can lead to problems. In this episode you’ll learn about…
2 years, 1 month ago
Listener Favorites: Beyond Diagnostic Criteria
Autistics share traits that meet the diagnostic criteria for autism and many traits that do not. Find out what autistics may have in common that didn…
2 years, 2 months ago
Best of 2023: The Double Empathy Problem
The old thinking was that neurotypicals understand us as autistics but that we don’t understand them. Modern research dispels this myth and empathy m…
2 years, 2 months ago
Resilience
The regions of the brain that play a role in resilience are the areas of the brain most affected by autism. Is it possible for an autistic person to …
2 years, 2 months ago
Detail oriented? Big picture thinker? Both?
The ability to see the “big picture” is called central coherence. One study (1980’s) said that autistic people have weak central coherence and only s…
2 years, 2 months ago