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What happens after you stop recording a podcast — and how do you learn to embrace your own voice when you hear it played back?In the second episode of Series 2 of Creative Becoming, Helen and Elizabeth continue their behind-the-scenes exploration of making a podcast, moving beyond the microphone to discover everything involved in bringing their conversations to listeners. From editing audio and choosing music to designing artwork and promoting the finished show, they reflect on the creative decisions, unexpected challenges and lessons they've learned along the way.Together, they explore the importance of authentic communication, particularly when editing autistic speech, and why the temptation to remove every hesitation or imperfection can mean losing something valuable. They also discuss navigating creative differences, learning to celebrate their own achievements and discovering how collaboration can lead to something neither person could have created alone.Whether you're considering starting a podcast, working on a creative project or learning to feel more comfortable sharing your work with the world, this episode explores why finding your voice is about more than simply pressing record.Links & Resources:Research and further reading:Flow state and creativity: Helen shares three research articles exploring the experience of flow and its relationship with creative practice:Research article – PubMedResearch publication – York St John UniversityResearch article – Emotion, Space and SocietySelf-reflection and storytelling: The Ethnographic I by Carolyn Ellis explores personal narrative and approaches to research.Difference, not deficit: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman explores neurodiversity, disability and the social systems shaping our understanding of neurological difference.Helen's creative work:Helen's Graphic Art Diaries – digital archiveHelen's Haiku ArchiveDownload Helen's Graphic Art Diary TemplateGet in Touch:Have a question, a creative project you'd like to share or something from the episode that resonated with you?Helen and Elizabeth would love to hear from you.Email creativebecomingpod@gmail.com — whether you've got a question, want to share your work or simply fancy saying hello.Produced for the Autistic Culture Podcast Network.🎧 Creative Becoming is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.🌈 Celebrate autistic voices with early access, ad-free listening, and our full archive at AutisticCulturePlus.com🌐 Visit www.autisticculturepodcastnetwork.com📲 Follow us on Instagram: @autisticculturepodcast

Have you ever noticed something that everyone else seems to have missed — and wished you could go back to not noticing it?Welcome to Unfortunately, I Noticed, a new podcast hosted by journalist, author and AuDHD creative Gabrielle Nicole Pharms, exploring the patterns, contradictions and details that shape how we experience the world.Through conversations with artists, comedians, musicians and other curious minds, Gabrielle explores creativity, culture, identity and neurodivergence, asking what happens when we stop explaining how our minds work and start exploring what they notice.Whether you've spent your life being told you're overthinking things or you're simply curious about how other people see the world, there's a place for you here.Unfortunately, I Noticed. Conversations with creative minds about the patterns they can't unsee.Part of the Autistic Culture Podcast Network. Subscribe now and listen wherever you get your podcasts.🎧 Unfortunately, I Noticed is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.🌈 Celebrate autistic voices with early access, ad-free listening, and our full archive at AutisticCulturePlus.com🌐 Visit www.autisticculturepodcastnetwork.com📲 Follow us on Instagram: @autisticculturepodcast

Fine. Stressed. Overwhelmed.We use these words every day, but they can conceal far more than they reveal. Anger and disappointment may feel remarkably similar in the body, yet one may point towards perceived injustice while the other emerges from an unmet expectation. If we cannot recognise the difference, we may reach for entirely the wrong response.In this episode, Ashley begins a new season of Mindful Mondays devoted to exploring the inner toolkit: the many psychological ideas, modalities and practices that can help us understand and support ourselves more deeply.Drawing on the work of Yale psychologist and emotional-intelligence researcher Dr Marc Brackett, Ashley explores what emotional intelligence actually means - not permanent calmness, relentless positivity or talking about our feelings all day, but learning to recognise, understand and respond wisely to the information our emotions carry.Through her Aware, Allow, Align framework, she considers emotional granularity, affect labelling and the space between feeling and action. What changes when we stop treating anxiety as an intruder? How can allowing a feeling differ from handing it control? And how might alignment help us move from automatic reaction towards a more conscious response?Ashley also brings essential Neurodivergent Nuance to alexithymia, masking, overload and delayed emotional processing - because sometimes the body knows that something is happening long before the words arrive.The episode closes with a traditional Yoga Nidra for emotional grounding, inviting you to move awareness through the body, cultivate the witness and meet whatever is present with a little more compassion and choice.Practise with Ashley on Insight Timer:https://insighttimer.com/AshleyDupuyFollow Mindful Mondays with Ashley Dupuy:https://mindfulmondayswithashleydupuy.buzzsprout.comVisit Ashley’s website:https://www.integrativeiom.co.ukOur Sponsors:🧘‍♀️ Ashley Dupuy – Integrative Coaching, Breathwork & Hypnotherapy & https://insighttimer.com/AshleyDupuy🤝 Sophie James - Neurodivergent Mentoring: sophiejamesndmentoring.com🎧 The Neurodivergent Experience is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.🌈 Celebrate autistic voices with early access, ad-free listening, and our full archive at AutisticCulturePlus.com🌐 Visit www.autisticculturepodcast.com

This week, Angela and Simon explore misophonia — the intense emotional and physical reactions that certain everyday sounds can provoke, and why our sensory experiences can be so difficult to predict.After celebrating his engagement at a lively party filled with music, laughter and conversation, Simon found himself struggling with the sounds of a much quieter family gathering the following day. Why can one noisy environment feel perfectly manageable, while something as ordinary as chewing, throat-clearing or a particular pitch of laughter becomes unbearable?Drawing on their own experiences, Angela and Simon discuss the realities of living with misophonia, from the sudden rush of anger or distress that certain sounds can trigger to the challenges of explaining those reactions to the people closest to us.For this week's excavation into the Autistic Culture Archive, Angela turns her attention to one of the most recognisable and influential figures of the twentieth century: Princess Diana.Using the Ten Pillars of Autistic Culture as their guide, Angela and Simon revisit Diana's extraordinary life, her complicated relationship with the Royal Family and the public, and the ways she challenged expectations of what a princess should be.Rather than attempting to diagnose a historical figure, they explore the patterns, connections and cultural fingerprints that might offer a different perspective on her life and legacy through an Autistic cultural lens.Is Princess Diana's legacy Autistic culture?As always, we'll take you through everything coming up across the Autistic Culture Podcast Network in the week ahead!🌐 Subscribe to our newsletter and read our Autistic Culture Archive Field Reports: www.autisticculturepodcast.com🎧 Listen: This Week in Autistic Culture is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and all major podcast platforms.🌈 Become a Culture Builder: Get early access, ad-free listening and our full podcast archive at AutisticCulturePlus📲 Follow us on Instagram: @autisticculturepodcast

In this episode of The Dialogues, Kassiane Asasumasu, Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu, Renae Martin, and Oswin Latimer explore Autistic joy, community, accessibility, and the increasingly complicated relationship between technology and disability.The group discusses the latest developments in US autism policy and research, including concerns around the IACC, the value placed on academic credentials within Autistic advocacy, and how the next generation can build on the work of earlier Autistic communities without recreating the same hierarchies and barriers.As the conversation unfolds, they also tackle some very Autistic questions: what does active listening actually look like? Why is eye contact still treated as proof that somebody is paying attention? Do Autistic people really all have the same “safe foods”? And what happens when the technology designed to make life easier creates entirely new accessibility problems?From football and barbecue to AI, AAC, pseudoscience and the return of some surprisingly familiar ideas about autism, this is a wide-ranging conversation about who gets listened to, whose expertise is valued, and why questioning the ideas presented to us remains so important.The Dialogues is produced in collaboration with Foundations for Divergent Minds for the Autistic Culture Podcast Network.🎧The Dialogues is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.🌈 Celebrate autistic voices with early access, ad-free listening, and our full archive at AutisticCulturePlus.com🌐 Visit www.autisticculturepodcastnetwork.com📲 Follow us on Instagram: @autisticculturepodcast

In this episode of The Autistic Culture Podcast, hosts Dr. Angela Kingdon and Matt Lowry, LPP explore the hidden role autistic people play in making Wikipedia what it is today. While the platform thrives on autistic strengths like information organization, data hunger, and special interests, there’s also a darker side: exploitation, harassment, and ableism inside Wikimedia’s culture.🎧 What You’ll Learn:Why Wikipedia is perfectly aligned with autistic traits like pattern-matching, info-dumping, and justice sensitivity.How autistic editors contribute to making content more inclusive, accurate, and diverse.The autistic approach to “neutrality”: focusing on what is right rather than who is right.Reports of harassment and bullying of autistic employees behind the scenes at Wikimedia.The story of “Jane,” a former autistic Wikimedia employee whose diagnosis disclosure led to burnout after facing discrimination.The dangers of “A-Spectrumers” and functioning labels inside the organization.Why donating to local Wikipedia chapter groups (often run by autistics) may be more effective than giving to Wikimedia’s central fundraisers.A call to autistic editors: if you have the privilege and capacity, your high edit counts could help shift Wikipedia’s culture for the better—while remembering to protect your mental health.Resources:Wikipedia’s definition of ableismHow to become a Wikipedia editorWikipedia:WikiProject AutismAutism Spectrum Wrongly Described In WikipediaWikipedia likes us!Wikipedia:High-functioning autism and Asperger's editorsWikipedians with autismRelated Episodes:Industrial Light & Magic is AutisticProductivity is Autistic🌟 Connect With Us📱 Follow us on Instagram🎧 Find us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify🛍️Our Autism-affirming merch shop🌐 Learn more at www.autisticculturepodcast.com

This is a re-run episode from 2025.In this episode of The Neurodivergent Experience, Jordan James and Simon Scott open up about imposter syndrome — the belief that you’re never good enough, never qualified enough, and that one day everyone will “figure you out.”With humour and honesty, they share personal stories of childhood bullying, masking, perfectionism and self-doubt, and how growing up misunderstood leaves many autistic and ADHD adults feeling like their achievements aren’t real. From turning down opportunities to assuming every success is luck, they explore why confidence is so difficult for neurodivergent minds.They discuss how imposter syndrome shows up in work, relationships, creativity and social media — and how therapy, self-compassion and supportive people can slowly rewrite the story.This is a raw, validating conversation for anyone who has ever worked twice as hard and still felt like a fraud. If you struggle to believe in yourself, this episode is proof that you’re not alone — and that healing is possible.Our Sponsors:🧘‍♀️ Ashley Dupuy – Integrative Coaching, Breathwork & Hypnotherapy & https://insighttimer.com/AshleyDupuy🤝 Sophie James - Neurodivergent Mentoring: sophiejamesndmentoring.com🎧 The Neurodivergent Experience is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.🌈 Celebrate autistic voices with early access, ad-free listening, and our full archive at AutisticCulturePlus.com🌐 Visit www.autisticculturepodcast.com

In this episode of Autism Help, Heather McKay explores the relationship between autistic identity, language and mental health, and how the words used to describe autistic people can influence the way they are understood and treated.Heather discusses the debate around identity-first and person-first language, the introduction of terms such as profound autism, and the importance of autistic people having a voice in conversations about their own lives. She also examines the role of advocacy, the impact of discrimination and dehumanising language, and the political decisions affecting autistic communities, including changes to disability support in Australia.Content Note:This episode includes discussion of depression, suicidal thoughts, discrimination, abuse, eugenics and the historical persecution of disabled people. Please listen with care if these subjects may be difficult or triggering for you.Disclaimer:This podcast is for general information only and does not constitute medical or legal advice. Please consult an appropriately qualified professional about your individual circumstances.🎧 Autism Help is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.🌈 Celebrate autistic voices with early access, ad-free listening, and our full archive at AutisticCulturePlus.com🌐 Visit www.autisticculturepodcastnetwork.com📲 Follow us on Instagram: @autisticculturepodcast