Apr 29, 2023
Martine van Bijlert is a writer and researcher from the Netherlands. Now 52, she grew up in Iran and worked in places like Kabul, Grozny and Tehran as an aid worker, diplomat and researcher. She now divides her time between her own creative projects and her work for the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based think...
Apr 22, 2023
Naomi Clarke is a freelance writer, community mentor, fundraiser and Human Design reader.
She self diagnosed as autistic around two years ago, but due to inequality in the medical system has so far not been able to get a formal diagnosis.
She describes herself as an autistic, queer, mixed race person with two children...
95. S8 E3: Shelving the quest for normal: reframing, regulating, and removing the stigma from autism
Apr 15, 2023
Ebonie Allard is an award-winning International Master Coach, an author, and an artist. Now in her early 40s, she was mostly raised in the UK, but before she was seven years old she had lived in a house truck, on a commune, in France, New Zealand, Ireland, and England. She now lives in Spain.
She says that she has never...
Apr 8, 2023
Karawynn Long is an American writer and proofreader living in Mexico.
Now 52, she had what she describes as her ‘Autism epiphany’ just over three years ago, a few months before her fiftieth birthday. She is self identified as autistic, partly due to formal assessments not being available in the Mexican system, and...
Apr 1, 2023
Mandy Williams is a Volunteer Coordinator with Scottish Women’s Autism and a competitive athlete. Originally from Manchester in the UK, she now lives in Stirling in Scotland. She was diagnosed autistic two years ago, aged 45.
She is passionate about exercise, and her enthusiasm for this special interest shines out....