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Meet My Autistic Brain — 231 episodes

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BREAKTHROUGH: A New Assessment Tool for Autistic Women Created From Their Real-Life Stories

2

Rerun: Mindfulness That Actually Works for Autistics

3

We Deserve More: Why Reproductive Healthcare is Broken--And What You Can Do About It

4

The Path from Coping to Flourishing

5

A Model for Thriving as an Autistic Adult

6

Hear again: Sound Sensitivity

7

Welcome to AuDHD: How to Survive and Thrive as an Adult with Autism and ADHD

8

Special Episode: The Autistic Woman

9

Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults

10

Healing Autistic Burnout

11

Special Episode: What Could the AI Boom Mean for Neurodivergent People?

12

Become Who You Are - Worth Another Listen

13

Best of 2025: Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum

14

Publishers Rejected This Autistic Detective. Readers Loved Him.

15

Replay: An Unmasking Story

16

An Autism Diagnosis Rewrites the Story

17

Replay: Why Autistics Pick the Wrong Partner

18

Unmasking: What We Lose by Pretending and How to Get It Back

19

The Autistic Adult's Toolbox: Real Tools for Real Life-Because Just Try Harder Isn't a Strategy

20

Do I Tell? A Question We Wrestle With Every Day

21

The Genius of How Sensory Processing Regulates the Nervous System

22

Allow Me to Interrupt: The Emotional Truth Behind Women's ADHD

23

Rerun: Shutdowns

24

Listener Favorite: Interoception - Feeling Your Feelings

25

Play It Again: Myths About Autism

26

Catch this Replay: Foresight

27

The Highly Sensitive, Perceptive Autistic Person

28

Hear It Again: Why the Autistic Brain Over-responds in Emotional Situations

29

Listen Again: Decisions

30

Diagnosis and What Needs to Change

31

Listener Favorites: Autistic Strengths

32

Autism in Entertainment - Is It For You?

33

Listener Favorites: Coping As Autistic

34

Autism Assessments: Am I Autistic?

35

Listener Favorites: Autistic Fatigue

36

Why Autistics Must Trust Gut Feelings

37

Listener Favorites: Explaining Autism to Family and Friends

38

Why Autistics Ignore Gut Feelings

39

Listener Favorites Interview: Orion Kelly

40

Hot Topic: Straight Talk About Adult Bullying

41

Build Lasting Motivation

42

The Autistic Nervous System, Horses and Co-Regulation

43

Acetaminophen: What Some Say Causes Autism

44

Listener Favorites: Autistic Fatigue

45

Someone Like Me

46

How to Be Autistic: What's Next After Diagnosis?

47

The Autism Tax

48

Connecting Through Play

49

Mindfulness That Actually Works for Autistics

50

Listener Favorites: 11 Reasons It's Good to Know You're Autistic

51

1,000,000 Downloads and an Epic Thank You!

52

Listener Favorites: Common Autistic Experiences

53

A Volcanic Reaction to a Special Interest

54

Popular Interview: Best-selling author JD Barker

55

Why Self-Help Fails Autistic People

56

Rebranding Autism - A Guide to Seeing Strength on the Spectrum

57

Burnout, Relationships, Resilience and Self-Care for Autistic People

58

The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery

59

The Remarkable Film "Spectrum" with writer-director Rick Stanton

60

Listener Favorites: An Autistic Person Is...

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Listener Favorites: Anticipation Fixation

62

An Autistic Story of Struggle

63

Selling Out the Spectrum: How Science Lost the Trust of Autistic People and How It Can Win It Back

64

Workplace Neurodiversity Rising

65

Unstoppable: An Autistic Experience

66

Finding Answers After Late Diagnosis

67

Is it Autism or Bipolar Disorder?

68

Are Autistics Bottom-up Thinkers?

69

Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum

70

Transforming Verbal Information Into Visual

71

Listener Favorites: Misdiagnosis

72

Unemployed or Underemployed

73

News and Updates: A Podcast and a Surprising Sensory Sensitivity

74

Always Bring Your Sunglasses

75

System Redesign Handbook for a Humane Era

76

What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic

77

Being An Autistic Writer

78

Best of 2024: Overlooked Autistic Traits

79

Set Yourself Free from Childhood PTSD

80

News and Updates: New books and a podcast

81

Listener Favorites: Autism and Romantic Feelings

82

Autism, ADHD or both

83

The Right Time to Say You're Autistic

84

Popular Interview: So You Think You're Autistic

85

Listener Favorites: Stimming

86

Misdiagnosis

87

Autism and Success: An Interview with NYT best-selling author JD Barker

88

Why the Autistic Brain Over-responds in Emotional Situations

89

Favorite Repeat: Self-Diagnosis

90

What is Autism?

91

Demand Avoidance That's Not PDA

92

Listener Favorites: Executive and Cognitive Functions

93

Listener Favorites: Face Blindness

94

Listener Favorites: Pathological Demand Avoidance

95

Why Autistics Pick the Wrong Partner

96

Listener Favorites: Beyond Diagnostic Criteria

97

Best of 2023: The Double Empathy Problem

98

Resilience

99

Detail oriented? Big picture thinker? Both?

100

Autism Feels...An Earthling's Guide

101

So You Think You're Autistic

102

How AI Benefits Autistics

103

Autistic Fatigue

104

Listener Favorites: Self-diagnosis

105

Listener Favorites: Autistic Perfectionism

106

Autistic Strengths

107

Decisions

108

Sound Sensitivity

109

Object Permanence

110

What Did I Do Wrong?

111

Follow Up to Going to the Hospital

112

Going to the Hospital

113

Coping as an Autistic Person

114

Overlooked Autistic Traits, Pt 2

115

Overlooked Autistic Traits

116

Become Who You Are

117

Calmer: Meet The Creators

118

Foresight

119

A New Season, A New Year!

120

Self-diagnosis

121

Aphantasia and Visualization

122

Proprioception

123

Use Noise to Sleep Better and Reduce Tinnitus

124

Myths About Autism

125

Interoception: Feeling Your Feelings

126

Emotional Sensitivity or RSD?

127

Systems

128

Persistence or Perseveration

129

Autistic Perfectionism

130

The Double Empathy Problem

131

Shutdowns

132

An Unmasking Story

133

Stimming

134

Common Autistic Experiences

135

Theory of Mind: The Milton Paradox

136

Beyond Diagnostic Criteria

137

Taking Medications

138

Autistic Burnout

139

Self-esteem

140

Pathological Demand Avoidance

141

Connection

142

Autodidacts - Self Learners

143

Why do I...?

144

Auditory Processing Disorder

145

Short Term and Working Memory

146

Logic and Intuition

147

What is Hyperfocus?

148

Isolation and Loneliness

149

Autism: A New Test and A Cure

150

Neurotypical Syndrome Disorder

151

Autistics are Oblivious?

152

Autism and Romantic Feelings

153

11 Reasons It's Good to Know You're Autistic

154

Does Autism "get better"?

155

Autistic Emotion

156

What Some Say Causes Autism

157

Why Circadian Rhythm Matters

158

Awake at 3 a.m.

159

Sleep Deprivation

160

Executive and Cognitive Function Part 2

161

Executive and Cognitive Function

162

Comorbidities and Coexisting Disorders

163

Context Sensitivity

164

How to Manage Energy

165

Masking and Imposter Syndrome

166

Echolalia and Repeating Words

167

Hugs

168

Clumsiness

169

Explaining Autism to Family and Friends

170

The Predictability Hypothesis

171

Autistic Inertia

172

Being Invisible

173

Efficiency

174

Routine

175

School

176

Creativity

177

After the Diagnosis

178

Changing the Narrative

179

Sleep

180

An Autistic Person Is...

181

Face Blindness

182

Interrupting

183

Steps to Set Boundaries

184

Driven to Research

185

Little Things

186

A Desire for Friends

187

Imagination

188

Season 3 Trailer

189

The Podcast has a New Name!

190

Autism and Domestic Violence - Episode 4: Gaslighting

191

Autism and Domestic Violence, Episode 3: Triangulation

192

Autism and Domestic Violence - Episode 2

193

Autism and Domestic Violence - Episode 1

194

Unhelpful Self-Help

195

Ask Without Apologizing

196

Catastrophizing

197

Anticipation Fixation

198

Saying "I'm Autistic"

199

A Fallacy of Autism Research

200

Speaking Up

201

Music

202

Job Interview Questions

203

Jobs and Career Part 2

204

Jobs and Careers

205

Perfection and Rejection

206

Rumination

207

Season 2 Trailer

208

The Myth of the Extreme Male Brain

209

Bullies at Work

210

Systematizing and the Extreme Male Brain

211

Empathy and the Extreme Male Brain

212

The Challenge of Written Communication

213

Black and White Thinking

214

Special Interests

215

Body Language

216

Sound Effects

217

Wake Up: Stop the Noise!

218

Superpower: Thinking in Pictures

219

Speaking Literally: Idioms from the Horse's Mouth

220

Do You Ever Tell People Who You Are?

221

Mind Chatter: 60 seconds in the ASD/ADHD brain

222

Easy Boundaries in Relationships

223

Small Talk

224

High Functioning Autism and Aspergers - A Brief Introduction

225

Handling Meltdowns

226

What Autism Is and Why It Is Missed

227

Communication Complexities

228

Sensory Sensitivities

229

Going to the Doctor

230

Making Eye Contact

231

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