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Episode 29: Belonging, Burnout, and Why Kids Need Somewhere Safe to Land
Season 1 Episode 29
Matt and Erin are back with returning guest Maisie Soetantyo for a deeper, wider conversation about what happens after diagnosis—inside families, acr…
9 months, 1 week ago
Episode 28: Compliance, Regulation, and the Cost of Looking “Fine”
Season 1 Episode 28
Matt and Erin are joined this week by longtime colleague and friend of the show, Maisie Soetantyo—an openly autistic, multiply neurodivergent advocat…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 27: Justice Sensitivity, Content Creation, and the Trauma of Being Perceived
Season 1 Episode 24
This week, Matt and Erin are joined by Arielle Juliette—autistic creator, studio owner, and justice-sensitive human living very online in a very loud…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 26: Movement Hunger, Belly Dance, and Letting the Nervous System Finish the Sentence
Season 1 Episode 26
Matt and Erin are back this week with returning guest Arielle of Dance Life Studio and Fitness, and the conversation goes exactly where Autistic conv…
10 months ago
Episode 25: New Year’s Dopamine, Ultimate Combos, and Why Systems Beat Resolutions
Season 1 Episode 25
Matt and Erin sit in that strange in-between space after Christmas and before New Year’s, where everyone’s supposed to feel hopeful but most of us ar…
10 months, 1 week ago
Episode 24: Chicken Nuggets, Capitalism, and the Autistic Holiday Survival Guide
Season 1 Episode 24
Matt and Erin are back just before Christmas, talking honestly about why the holidays are often overwhelming instead of joyful for Autistic people. T…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 23: Vaccines, Disinformation, and Why Autism Is Not Worse Than Death
Season 1 Episode 23
Matt and Erin are back this week, and we’re taking on the zombie myth that refuses to stay dead: the claim that vaccines cause autism. It’s blunt, it…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 22: Invisible Disabilities, Chronic Illness, and the Kind of Pain That Rewrites Your Life
Season 1 Episode 22
Content note: This episode is heavier and much longer than usual. It runs about an hour and a half, and it covers medical trauma, chronic illness, an…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 21: Food Sensitivities, Colonial Myths, and the Chaos of Family Tables
Season 1 Episode 21
Matt and Erin are back this week with a Thanksgiving episode that’s… honestly, a lot. Food sensitivities, MCAS, sensory overload, historical truth-te…
11 months ago
Episode 20: Executive Dysfunction, Bottom-Up Brains, and Why YouTube Broke Us Before We Even Hit Record
Season 1 Episode 20
Matt and Erin come in hot this week after a 30-minute derailment caused by YouTube’s brand-account labyrinth. Which, of course, turns into a very on-…
11 months, 1 week ago