Ep. 54: Autism Pt. 1–Brave in Our Slippers

Start fiddling your fidgets and slip into your softest soft pants (but not the wrong kind of soft–looking at you, faux sherpa) because this episode we’re finally starting our series on autism and revealing that–surprise, surprise–we both have it *insert mouth horns*   For those of you sarcastically doing a shocked Macaulay Culkin face right now, get ready for some sweet vindication as we explore our newly embraced autistic traits, which, in retrospect have always very much been there (you are allowed one ‘I told you so’ each, use it wisely).   We’re also covering the validity of self-diagnosis, the barriers to being identified when you aren’t a little white boy who loves trains, the DSM-5’s diagnostic criteria for ASD and everything we hate about it, and whatever else we can cram in along the way.  Resources Diagnostic Criteria | Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) | NCBDDD | CDC Tests for ASD: Autism Spectrum Test (idrlabs.com)   To keep this horse train running (but this isn’t a threat): ko-fi.com/weirdsofafeather Find us on Instagram: @weirdsofafeather  Join our Facebook group: Weirds of a Feather