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Autism by Autistics

Autism by Autistics

By Melissa and Sophie

Join Melissa and Sophie as they discuss various topics surrounding autism from personal viewpoints, own experience, the autistic community and academic research.
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Autistics in the Wild Episode 3: Christmas!

Autism by AutisticsDec 30, 2020

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Autistics in the Wild Episode 3: Christmas!

Autistics in the Wild Episode 3: Christmas!

Merry delayed Christmas from us! This week we gift to you our informal Christmas episode where we discuss our favourite and strange things about Christmas including a cursed Santa decoration, Sophie managing to incorporate Scotland into everything, games at Christmas and more! 

We hope that you all had a lovely Christmas despite this year being well this year and hope you enjoy this episode for New Year week! 


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Dec 30, 202046:03
Autistics in the Wild Episode 2: The Liverpool Pigeon

Autistics in the Wild Episode 2: The Liverpool Pigeon

This week on Autistics in the Wild we have better audio for Sophie to provide you with topics such as Melissa vs keeping tea in the cup, books, Sophie’s deep love of Eurovision, autism vs concerts, reduced sensory coping, the reason for the episode title and more. 

Do be aware each episode in this series will have a curious name selected from something discussed within! 

Content warning: brief mention of reading ABA research (no details) and some pandemic chat


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Dec 23, 202056:49
Autistics in the Wild Episode 1: Can we call it that?
Dec 16, 202001:00:05
World Mental Health Day 2019 Special: An Open Conversation

World Mental Health Day 2019 Special: An Open Conversation

This week there is a bonus episode due to it having been mental health day in the week of recording. Melissa suggested that we have a casual chat over tea and chocolate about mental health. We discuss a mix of our own mental health, experiences with professionals, other topics that we have opinions on as well as fangirling over some of the staff at Liverpool University and how great the department is about talking about mental health and support from staff.

We do discuss a range of issues that are sensitive in nature and some listeners may find uncomfortable to listen to.

Anxiety, Depression, Suicide, Psychosis (briefly), bad interactions with professionals, trauma, C/PTSD, therapy and eating disorders.


If anyone is going through mental distress do contact your GP or seek advice/help from one of the links below:

Samaritans – for everyone
Call 116 123
Email jo@samaritans.org

https://www.samaritans.org/

Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) – for men
Call 0800 58 58 58 – 5pm to midnight every day
https://www.thecalmzone.net/

Papyrus – for people under 35
Call 0800 068 41 41 – Monday to Friday 10am to 10pm, weekends 2pm to 10pm, bank holidays 2pm to 5pm
Text 07786 209697
Email pat@papyrus-uk.org

https://papyrus-uk.org/

Childline – for children and young people under 19
Call 0800 1111 – the number won't show up on your phone bill

https://www.childline.org.uk/

Mind - https://www.mind.org.uk/

Mental Health Foundation - https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/

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Oct 12, 201946:25
Ep 6: Sensory Processing
Oct 12, 201939:36
Ep 5: Overload, Meltdown and Burnout
Sep 07, 201945:45
Ep4: Socialisation

Ep4: Socialisation

In this episode we discuss socialisation from social chit chat, Melissa's struggle with the greeting 'alright', Sophie's panic question, the difference between interacting with other autistic people and neurotypicals and the struggle of adapting to socialisation of another neurotype. We also discuss empathy. 


Research mentioned by Catherine Crompton and Sue Fletcher-Watson Diversity in Social Intelligent Project: http://dart.ed.ac.uk/research/nd-iq/


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Aug 31, 201951:27
Ep3: Disclosure
Aug 24, 201901:06:53
Ep2: Special Interests

Ep2: Special Interests

In our second episode we discuss special interests from our own, to the many benefits of special interests, how they can be utilised in good ways and we eventually realise we do also need to cover the negatives. 

We also talk about our special interests so prepare for Scotland, highland cows, Autism Psychology, Bon Jovi and Pink Floyd as well as shout outs to prior special interests.


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Aug 10, 201952:28
Ep1: What is it like to be autistic?
Aug 03, 201949:11