OM DENNE EPISODE
Welcome to another edition of This Week in Autistic Culture, our Sunday magazine podcast that brings together the stories, conversations and ideas shaping Autistic culture each week.
This week, Angela and Simon unpack the ongoing conversation around autism and overdiagnosis following recent comments from Uta Frith, asking why outdated ideas about autism can remain so powerful even when they conflict with the lived experiences of Autistic people.
That leads to a much bigger conversation about who gets to define autism, why greater recognition can be treated as a threat, and the role representation can play in changing how Autistic people are understood.
We also introduce Autistic Menopause, a brand-new ACPN podcast from Sam Galloway, before looking ahead to another packed week across the network, with conversations about musical theatre, fibromyalgia, situational mutism, resilience, safe foods, creativity and much more.
Plus, we head to the Community Notice Board for books, events and opportunities from across the wider Autistic community.
📌 Community Noticeboard:
The Community Noticeboard is your space to share what’s happening across autistic culture. Whether you’re launching a book, hosting an event, releasing a podcast, starting a creative project, celebrating a milestone, or simply have something you’d like the community to know about, we’d love to hear from you.
Send your announcements, links and updates to autisticculturepodcast@gmail.com, and we’ll feature as many as we can in a future edition of This Week in Autistic Culture.
This Week’s Topics:
- Has autism become too broad to be useful?
- NAS response to Professor Dame Uta Frith’s new paper
- The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC 2 - Discussion on Uta Frith
Books & research:
- Menopause and ADHD: How to navigate hormone flux and neurodivergence by Dr Helen Wall
- Being Eve: A Graphic Novel by Em Hammond
Events:
- Interoception and Autism - Pete Wharmby - Wednesday, August 19th - 8 to 8.40pm - Free. Dive into how sensing your body differently can shape the autistic experience in this short, chilled out meetup. This short, free talk will explore how the internal sense - Interoception - can be experienced differently by autistic people. This can lead to complicated relationships with food, drink, tiredness and more.
- https://www.allthingspractice.com/diverge - Traditional business advice wasn’t built for neurodivergent brains. Join 23+ ND entrepreneurs at the Diverge Summit (Aug 24–Sept 4) to learn how to build on your own terms—no masking or hustle-culture BS required. Free tickets
- Being Me 10-Week Online Group Experience for Autistic 12 to 16-year-olds - GROVE - Starts Monday, October 5th - 5.30 to 6.30pm - From £250
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