Guerilla Autistics Podcast Autism Aspergers Syndrome Neurodiversity Neurodivergent ASD

About Guerilla Autistics Podcast Autism Aspergers Syndrome Neurodiversity Neurodivergent ASD

Parents meet autistics. Neurodiversity activist with children. Autistic people without children. Autistics the world over united. Autism. Aspergers Syndrome. Neurodiversity. Neurodivergence. Comedy, interviews, fun. A podcast from Paul Wady, arch Neurodiversity Movement activist and autistic man. Married to another autistic and working training professionals about autism, Paul has his own long running show that converts audiences to being autistic (Guerilla Aspies) as well as a book which is now seven years old. (Guerilla Autistics - a neurotypical society infiltration manual. Formerly Guerilla Aspies). The podcasts are hopefully a means by which the many communities in the world of autism can come together and listen to each other. Expect an extraordinary collection of the key players on the underground scene, and the ever revealing answers to the question...just who is Paul Wady and what is he doing? One thing we can be certain of. He is not without his biases.... ;) Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Paul Wady

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Feb 2020

Latest episode

10 Apr 2025

Latest episodes

18 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Apr 2025

   GUERILLA AUTISTICS PODCAST Season 2 Ep.1 - How Neurodiversity typifies the Edinburgh Fringe. 11 GUESTS. Neurodivergency Neurodivergent and Autism

   In august 2024 Kevin Toolis, a journalist with zero stated background in the field of Neurodiversity let alone Neurodivergence/Autism, wrote a piece in the Spectator magazine that horrified all of us Neurodivergent performers who were on the Edinburgh Fringe that year. According to him, all of our self confession and soul - baring, a dangerous thing in the Neurotypical world, was nothing but cheap attention seeking. At the time I just ignored it. Typical revisionism. An article full of clearly biased and aggressive language, representing an old and recognisable agenda for a 20 year veteran of autistic self advocacy like me. Here we go again. The usual. Toolis refused to debate his piece, and left Twitter/X at that time. I am contacting him to a response when I post this podcast. You can read the piece online. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-neurodiversity-took-over-the-edinburgh-fringe/ (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-neurodiversity-took-over-the-edinburgh-fringe/) Here, I interview Suzy Payton Jax Braithwaite. (Baby Belle) Mark Nicholas Narin Oz Variety D Antonio Fadda Batzella SJ Whyatt Nicky Vere Compton Angus Baskerville Drew Gadron Stephen Catling Nanny Aut Thank you very much to you all. You are my Neurokin. Paul. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   21 Sept 2021

   Guerilla Aspies podcast Autism Aspergers syndrome neurodiversity neurodivergency 17 - Eve Reiland, Mother, Autistic, activist, writer, journalist and Neurodivergent historian.

   I never thought I would get to speak to someone in the legendary Californian city of Fresno. I always though it was short for a bigger title too, but turns out to be Spanish for Ash tree. Eve Reliand who claimed the name Autistic Bad Ass Activist before anyone else, kindly spoke to me for my podcast. Eve is best introduced as an autistic activist, artist, writer and parent. she is the founder of InternationalBadassActivists (one word for all you autistic pendants out there), and a co-founder of the Autistic Co operative. Eve started writing for self advocacy in 2005 and launched her first campaign around autism in 2008. Eve's goals are to make a better future for all autistic s born today, amplify divergent voices and document just what has been going on in the world of autism but from our perspective rather than the neurotypical curing parent one that seems to want absolute domination over every narrative and agenda known. Her wonderful films on social media must be seen to be believed. History will be very glad that Eve has gone to the effort that she has. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   11 Aug 2021

   Guerilla Aspies Podcast 16 Autistic Self Advocate and Mother of three daughters Carly Jones MBE - Autism Aspergers Syndrome Neurodiversity NeuroDivergency

   Carly Jones MBE is a single mother of three daughters, the eldest of which is 23. A fact that she reckons entitles her to a sainthood, never mind being made a Member of the British Empire for services to autistic people (well at least the British Crown recognises us as such). Carly's story found her alone against all the odds raising three children, and later in life finding out through them that she was autistic. She has gone on to support many autistic people as a mentor and...wait for it... is a Keynote speaker, a presenter, an author, a UK Policy Safeguarding professional and...yet there is more...is on numerous advisory boards like the National Autistic Society, The Barbican London, Autistica Insights, NHS England Immunisation Board, Heathrow Airport, Motability Consumer Group, East Midlands Rail and as if that aint enough she finds time to. (take a breath now) be an Independent Member of the Ministry of Justice (that sounds very Judge Dredd doesnt it?) Our Majesty the Queens Community and Voluntary Honours Committee UK, Royal Society of Arts fellow, Co chair of the Executive Steering group with National Autistic Society and Royal Menace for the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training of all U.K. NHS Health and Social Care Staff. Not finished yet. She was voted one of the top 100 U.K. female entrepreneurs as well. No really. She's been on the BBC and independently reviews scholastic articles for Springer publications. If that's not informed you, try her twitter - CarlyJonesMBE and if you STILL need more, I think it's best you email her on Carly on Britishautismadvocate@gmail.com. Thank you. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

4. 

   13 May 2021

   Guerilla Aspies podcast 15 - Ash Loydon. Autistic father, artist, illustrator, music curator and all round artist. Autism. Aspergers Syndrome. Neurodiverse. Neuordivergent

   Yes, Ash drew the t shirt I am wearing for the 2019 Guerilla Aspies show at the Edinburgh Festival fringe. Note also his perfect t shirt? If you know horror illustration the world over, you know Ash London's work. He's legendary. Now meet the late diagnosed autistic man behind the almighty back catalogue of images our planet can barely contain. Meet his remarkable neurodivergent family. Oh I'm sorry I forgot that advocates like myself are not supposed to be interested in the relatively disabled autistic? Silly me - everyone is here in all forms of so called functionality. Oops! Ash is best described by his own hand: Taking in everything from art for 2001 Maniacs, The Welcoming, conceptual art for The Poet in Exile, FrightFest, Cine Excess festival, Stealth Aspies theatre company, design for the Get Your Genki record label, the Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick exhibition, Glasgow Museums and Glasgow Science Centre & the Tax Shelter Terrors documentary, concept & art for Scottish Autism's Autitude magazine plus portraits for Cameron Diaz, Kirk Jones and David Hess along the way. He's very good!!!! He's very autism positive. He has got great family and great hair. As featured on Feedspot.com's list of top Neurodiversity Podcasts. :) https://blog.feedspot.com/neurodiversity_podcasts/. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

5. 

   15 Apr 2021

   Guerilla Aspies Podcast Autism Aspergers Neurodiversity Episode 14 - Pioneering advocate, author & Mother of 6 (many autistic) children Emma Dalmayne.

   COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK? GuerillaAspies@Outlook.com Emma Dalmayne has assisted the British Police to find, question and even arrest parents and people who put their childrens live in danger through unregulated treatments that are supposed to 'cure' them of being autistic. She has often done this by infiltrating social groups dedicated to such aims, finding out who people are and then reporting them. As seen on the BBC, Channel 4, in the Guardian, Times and Daily Mail newspapers. The unique and I think history making autistic advocate Emma Dalmayne finally gets time to talk to me on the phone. That took some doing. Emma and I have been friends for many years and I have not been podcasting for a while, really because I was after speaking to her. I think her work around exposing the practices of injecting CHL Chlorine Dioxide into the anuses of small children, which killed a UK child, is life saving. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jul/10/usa.edpilkington and https://www.vice.com/en/article/kwxq3w/parents-are-giving-their-children-bleach-enemas-to-cure-them-of-autism-311 Quoting the New York Times:...the “bleach cures” movement. The Genesis II Church (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/health-canada-genesis-2-church-mms-mark-jonathan-grenon-calgary-1.4606633) and Kerri Rivera (https://www.businessinsider.com/mms-bleach-advocates-telegram-photos-child-injuries-2020-4), among others, have been selling products like chlorine dioxide, marketed as “Miracle Mineral Solution (https://www.businessinsider.com/mms-fans-celebrate-trump-claim-disinfectant-might-cure-coronavirus-2020-4),” or M.M.S., stating that the substances will cure autism, acne, cancer, diabetes, Covid-19 and so much more (https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326059). This is a crucial red flag for pseudoscience: When a product claims it can cure anything, it’s a fake. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/opinion/coronavirus-bleach-trump-autism.html With six children, several of them at home to with her, Emma has started her own organisation to support both parents and autistic children with regular South London playgroups and meet ups. She has published two books and has spoken on radio and television. She has been consulted by Government in the UK Parliament and only this year was thanked during a meeting in the Palace of Westminster, over the regulation of dangerous practices aimed at 'treating' autistic children. In the belief that this would stop them being what they are. Emma as acted undercover for many years, infiltrating huge online social groups of parents who are secretively putting their own children health and lives at risk. All under the delusion that it will stop them being what they describe as autistic. Emma has taken a lot of personal abuse from such people and has received more threats than I would care to mention on here. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/13/fake-cures-autism-prove-deadly https://autisticinclusivemeets.org/about-us/emma-dalmayne/ I am proud to call Emma my friend and I hope to carry on supporting her work in the future. Even if it means we have to get ourselves a bit roughed up facing others. Ah well, that's being old Liverpudlian or Scouser for you. We tend to find ourselves at the sharp end... ;) COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK? GuerillaAspies@Outlook.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

6. 

   7 Dec 2020

   Guerilla Aspies Autism Aspergers Syndrome Neurodiversity Episode Thirteen - US Actor, writer, singer and performer George Steeves.

   COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK? GuerillaAspies@Outlook.com George Steeves is a young gay autistic actor, singer, dancer and all round performer whom I met through his multi award winning one man show Magic 8 Ball, my life with Aspergers, when he performed it at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2018. Brave George has already notched up a CV of film and television work in the US, including NCIS Los Angeles. (My wife and I followed the original NCIS for years). It was great to catch up with George from his home in Los Angeles. Lockdown style 2020. COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK? GuerillaAspies@Outlook.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

7. 

   8 Sept 2020

   Guerilla Aspies Podcast 12 - Jeff Fullington, PrimalHex, Seattle USA.

   COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK? GuerillaAspies@Outlook.com August 2020 I found myself in a hot debate whilst using the @StealthAspies Twitter account with some advocates in the USA who could never tolerate the idea that disability is relative to autistic people. For them the term autism was absolutely synonymous with disability and disorder. I made the acquantanceship of Jeff Fullington, a Seattle based autism advocate and asked him to podcast with me. Jeff is an interesting and passionate man who wants to create communities, both in person and virtually and seeks to bring people together and promote a positive NeuroDivergent identity the world over. Jeff is from the Cajun culture and community and his current project is a Discord - Server platform called The Red Door. He is also working on a website, blog and podcasting platform that other autistic people will be able to use to share their work. The discord link is https://discord.gg/AmTubn9 (https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscord.gg%2FAmTubn9&data=02%7C01%7C%7C06e14c829171457f623908d85340c121%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637350884862125794&sdata=dwLxO2oNhNdY7dPDyXjDzgOYz5r65RLmOtVR4HkgVy4%3D&reserved=0) and the info site for it is https://sites.google.com/view/the-red-door (https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fthe-red-door&data=02%7C01%7C%7C06e14c829171457f623908d85340c121%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637350884862135799&sdata=3Cdtl7YUcNlCXOT5A4u8H12xYFpfqisQgN4XskoMYm0%3D&reserved=0) WARNING: We end up spending a lot of time talking about our shared love of late 70's/early 80's music. As a first generation Liverpool Punk Rocker, I consider this a right and proper use of my podcast time. Thereafter at the end Jeff details his work so it's worth getting to the very end to hear that. Thank you Jeff. :) COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK? GuerillaAspies@Outlook.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

8. 

   29 Aug 2020

   Guerilla Aspies Podcast 11 - Autistic musician, translator, globetrotter and activist Chen Gershuni from Israel.

   A very good friend of mine speaking all the way from Tel Aviv Israel, Chen 'Globetrotter' Gershuni has had a huge, invisible influence on the planets autistic advocacy through his tireless and selfless translation work as much as becoming a major hub of positive self advocacy. Chen is renown the world over online and is a regular on the UK's Autscape event. He is also a musician and player of the stick. Look 'em up. He's a brilliant man and a lot quieter and smarter than me. Which of course is saying a great deal, etcetera. I caught him in his living room. During the podcast you will hear a reference to a man called Jonathan Mitchell being interviewed on a YouTube channel that I name as Autism One. In fact I got the name wrong. It was the Autism Live Channel. This interview is worth seeing on account of the sheer paradox that Mitchell presents in platforming himself as an autistic person who stands against anyone being positive about their autistic natures. When he himself clearly presents as someone who can work around the limits of his autistic nature, as he sees it limiting him. Now, what he refuses to acknowledge is that others can have equally valid but different opinions. The eerie inability to stop seeing his opinion as the ONLY one that should be seen and believed in life. The total inability to concede and see anything in the arguments and statements of others. Mitchell is a full time troll who relentlessly criticises anyone on mainly Twitter that he disagrees with. He has had substantial mainstream media coverage and cannot understand that he represents a schism in the greater Neurodiversity Movement that he both rejects and considers himself not to be part of. I see the term Neurodiversity Movement as a metaphor. Not a card carrying organisation. Notice also, the way that he uses the term Neurodiversity Movement as he wants it to be seen. Mitchell is actually part of a visible, online group of what are clearly his close personal friends. A phenomena he keeps saying that he cannot have or enjoy. https://youtu.be/X9zD_RK6-sw What is weird is that Mitchell states how much he has been attacked and insulted, without any reference to what he's been doing to people. Even when they did not know. He's rather fond of relentlessly criticising people who have blocked him and have no idea he's doing it. Poor Jonathan is a fine example of how in the world of social media, people do not seem to be able to understand that their ideas and statements can be seen in completely different ways to how they think they should be. The Autism Live channel is a very dubious thing. The presenter was found by me in one episode, staring in awe at Andrew Wakefield and Del Bigtree, his Dr Goebells, doing their usual material on how the vaccines their own bodies were doubtless full of (certainly Wakefields if not Bigtree. His zealous preacher parents may not have had him protected) were potentially dangerous and even lethal. This film is no longer findable. It appears to be run by the C.A.R.D or Centre of Autism and Related Disorders, the boss of which appeared in the Andrew Wakefield paranoid conspiracy theory medical science fiction film Vaxxed 1. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

9. 

   18 Aug 2020

   Guerilla Aspies Autism Aspergers Syndrome Podcast Episode 10 Autistic Trans Parent and Artist, Alexandra Forshaw

   For the tenth podcast I would like to introduce to you all over the planet Earth, the Autistic Trans Parent and Artist Alexandra Forshaw. We discuss trying to cope with the best university in Britain, finding out just how much don't fit and how much the NeuroDivergent community has given Alexandria a community and a positive identity. Hell, a real one more like. Do we all spend our lives compromising and following social protocols that demand we become to varying degrees, someone and something we are not? Then to go on to live as such for the rest of our lives. Sometimes blissfully unaware of how much we compromise ourselves. I think so. But not everyone is lucky enough to uncover and come to live in alignment with their own reality in all its forms. (This is a rather Buddhist way of putting it). Its now August 2020 and I an not at the Edinburgh Festival doing my long running show, which is a great shame. However a link to the Stealth Aspies performance at the Marlborough Theatre in Brighton 2019 is available to be seen as part of the online Edinburgh Free Fringe. Just search for it on there. :) Please contact me via HoxtonPaul@hotmail.co.uk and guerillaaspies@outlook.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

10. 

    7 Aug 2020

    Guerilla Aspies podcast 9 Autistic Pride Organisers - Billie Jo Gibson, Autism Pride Liverpool.

    It was my honour to interview Billie Jo Gibson, who stepped up and took on the responsibility for the Liverpool Autism Pride event a few years ago. She is also the webmanager for Neurodivergent Labour. We all come from somewhere. A place that makes us. I come from the city of Liverpool. As we 'Scousers' say, a boss interview with Billie la. Life can be a huge journey. Billie takes us on her's from a young diagnosis to her creative life and unflinching political stanch. One day people will take for granted the effort and sacrifices that activists like Billie Jo have had to go through. For now, please enjoy this little bit of history. I sometimes think the people who started it all and took on the world in their own small way, were never rewarded by the future's view of just how significant their actions were. Billie, take courage and pride that when I was a child in the 1970's no one knew anything about being autistic like they do now. But in the future your work will go on and mean so much to people like us. Please enjoy. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

11. 

    13 Apr 2020

    Guerilla Aspies podcast 6 - Dr Ria Lina, Scientist, comedian and Mother.

    COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK? GuerillaAspies@Outlook.com Mother of three, Scientist, award winning comedian, actor and producer. Dr Ria Lina is one unique autistic person. Funny too. Of German and Phillipino ancestry, growing up in the UK, the USA and the Netherlands. Ria has a BSc in Experimental Pathology, an MSc in Forensic Science, and a PhD in Viral Bioinformatics. She worked as an IT Forensic Investigator for the Serious Fraud Office too, so don't try anything funny online with her. Ria is a winner of the EMMA (Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy) award, She is known for her television appearances in The World Stands Up, Mega Mela Malai Comedy and Sweet n Sour on BBC3. She has been an Edinburgh Festival regular which is how come we could discuss the Free Fringe and the people we mention. Tricity is a friend of ours and a brilliant performer in her own right, who kind of brought us together (It was her Bluestockings Cabaret we were both doing things upon. Oooer..) SUBSCRIBE TO RIA'S PODCAST - RIA LINA'S BEHIND ON ITUNES AND EVERYWHERE. I see Ria as yet another example of how autistic people, once diagnosed and immersed into the greater Autistic media and metaphorical Neurodiversity Movement, become clearly defined in their opinions and politics about everything NeuroDivergent. It seems to be an organic thing. COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK? GuerillaAspies@outlook.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

12. 

    4 Apr 2020

    Guerilla Aspies Podcast 5 - Robyn Steward

    Author, globetrotting lecturer and speaker, personal trainer and support worker, musician and diagnosed autistic woman. Yep, it's the woman in the picture in purple, kneeling with the horn and the hat. Robyn speaks and includes two of her musical pieces in my podcast. The start music is from her Andy Diaphragm produced sessions, PANIC ATTACKS. The last piece is from her solo ambient horn work, entitled MYSTIC WONDER. All Robyn's music is available online, as are her books and other works, from www.robynsteward.com Look up Robyn's website for her considerable, self made history. Opinons? HoxtonPaul@hotmail.co.uk and guerillaaspies@outlook.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

13. 

    31 Mar 2020

    Quack Corner two - Chelation. Guerilla Aspies Podcast from Paul Wady.

    Chelation - a dodgy bogus quackery or.....well as you will find, it's seen as too dangerous to test on anyone to see if it cures or changes anything in autistic people. Or anyone... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

14. 

    31 Mar 2020

    Guerilla Aspies autism aspergers podcast 4: Alex Plank in Soho London & Quack Corner - Chelation.

    Paul Wady spends some time with Alex Plank, actor, advocate and originator of the WrongPlanet social site. A pleasant evening getting to know Alex, so not much meaty insights I'm afraid. Just good company. We preferred that. Quack Corner covers Chelation, the dark art of purging autism. Or not... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

15. 

    28 Mar 2020

    Guerilla Aspies Podcast 3 - Dr. Catriona Anne Stewart OBE Scottish Women's Autism Network founder and mother .

    Any feedback or suggestions? HoxtonPaul@Outlook.com or GuerillaAspies@gmail.com Catriona founded SWAN: Scottish Women’s Autism Network, in 2012, after completing her PhD research, which focussed on experiences of anxiety for Asperger girls. SWAN has grown to run online peer-support forums, regular ‘meet-up’ groups across Scotland, includ-ing for ‘Young Swans’ aged 15-17 and Learning Event conferences. SWAN offers training and professional support across sectors. Scottish Autism commissioned Catriona to develop their Right Click online resource for autistic women and girls, funded by Scottish Government in 2015. Developing the re-source involved primary research into the lived experiences of autistic women, girls and their families and many interviews with professional experts in the field such as Dr Judith Gould, Tony Attwood, Richard Mills, Sarah Hendrickx, Carly Jones MBE and many other autistic women and girls. Scottish Government funded Catriona’s initiative - to evidence the impact of peer mentoring - through a SWAN/Scottish Autism partnership delivered 2018-2019. Modelled as a co-production and pilot study, the Under Our Wing peer-mentor-ing project was designed and led by autistic women, with administrative support provided by Scottish Autism. Catriona was an ‘expert’ and advisor to the highly regarded 3 year UK-wide National Aut-ism Project. She was advisor to the 2 year-long Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, Scotland, recently completed in Dec 2019. On behalf of SWAN she is currently acting as Regional Delivery Partner to the Scottish Government ‘Improving Understanding of Aut-ism’ campaign. She has delivered training, presentations, conference papers and workshops over many years and to a wide range of contexts, professional organisations, charities, parents groups and Local Authority staff. With a tendency to sign up for academic or training courses whenever a small gap ap-pears in her calendar, Catriona has, over the years, collected a range of degrees and oth-er qualifications, including: BA (Hons) Fine Art, PGCert Community Work, PGDip Western Herbal Medicine, PG Dip Gender Studies, MSc In Diagnostic Issues in Autism, PhD. Like many autistic people, she’s also had an eclectic mix of jobs, from 2 years as full-time paid student union officer and politician, to working for 9 years within film and TV art depart-ments, to being a health clinician, to teaching, university lecturing and student mentoring. Catriona contributed to the collection of essays, “Spectrum Women” published by JKP in 2018 which was listed by the Independent as their 2019 #1 Best Buy book on autism. Catriona was included in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list, 2020, as an OBE. Opinons? HoxtonPaul@hotmail.co.uk and guerillaaspies@outlook.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    19 Mar 2020

    Quack Corner - Hyperbaric Chambers

    Hyperbaric chambers. A waste of money that make parents think has detoxified their children of being autistic. Heheheheheheh. Basically the above is a full and concise write up. Thank you. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

17. 

    19 Mar 2020

    Guerilla Aspies Podcast 2. Autistic Grandmother and legendary researcher Dr. Dinah Murray

    THE SECOND GUERILLA ASPIES PODCAST Contents. 0:52 Introduction to Dinah by PW, and a quick purr by Pushkin the Wondercat. 2:50 I explain that I will be splicing the start of our interview at the very end, and commencing the podcast with a more ‘meaty’ bit from when the pace had picked up. 3:00 Dinah explains how she started. Giving talks with Mike Lesser in the 1990’s and meeting Wenn Lawson. 5:17 Discovering Broom Hill school and a useful book by Rita Jordan and Stuart Powell. Getting in touch with them. 6:20 Durham Conferences and Paul Shattock. How his association with Andrew Wakefield ruined everything. 6:32 Witnessing Andrew Wakefield’s first public talk about measles in 1998. This isn’t Science! 7:56 PW discuss Wakefield as a waste of time but a fascination for me, and Dinah agrees. 8:38 Negativity around positivity around being autistic. 8:20 Not being very visible and being fairly equitable are skills I developed to survive. 9:50 I never talked about left/right male brain. 10:18 The rise of female representation in autism. She shifting to a less gendered set. 11:10 The AQ questions format…all biased. 11:35 Professor Declan Murphy and his ‘normal’ brains…Dinah rails against such projections. 12:12 Uta Frith/Franke Happe and following the leaders in science. No! 13:00 Michelle Dawson and the research into emotion in autistics. The use of fake computer - generated images. Nothing to do with genuinely connecting with people’s emotions. 13:45 It is clearly not the case that there is a standard limited set of responses you can call on. 14:00 Academic representations of autism are still ‘the wild west’. 14:50 The Universities will pay you to do these tests. What it is like doing them. 15:30 Learning and training the mind. If I’m no good at something I’d rather not do it at all. Why should autistics have to do things against our natures? 16:15 Habituation is a thing. Conquering the supermarket meltdowns… 17:00 We are good at training our minds. 17:35 The children were being monitored but the information was going straight to the teacher and not the children. When a classroom did not use the bio feedback they should have. 18:45 When teachers don’t relate to the children as people, but instead only see the parents. 19:04 How to cope with intense feelings. 19:40 Child cruelty as helping? Judge Rotenberg and extreme ABA. 20:15 The future of ABA. Will it mutate and soften? 21:05 On films on YouTube by young autistic people. 21:35 How it can be used as ‘ammunition’ by the people who say we are not really representative of those who cannot communicate. 22:00 Parents should partly own the process, but not all of it. How families can be and the great power struggles in our world. 22:44 An autistic person, a mother and a grandmother. 22:50 I did not have children who cannot speak, although I do know one person who is non - verbal that I have been close to for over 20 years. 23:15 The Mason family. Three autistic children. One non - verbal and the others got degrees etc. 23:55 Learning disabled issues are the ones that the National Autistic Taskforce has come into existence to engage with and make a difference. 25:01 Telling the outside world what is going on inside. That to me is really important. That and showing ‘capacity’. 25:30 Allowing autistics to access fun content online. 25:50 Parents of autistic children (who don’t like them being autistic) and the whole Autism Speaks phenomenon. 26.50 PW explains how he micro melts down all the time and contains it. 27:48 We all frighten people sometimes… 28:10 Women reacting against the whole women must avoid being a threat world…I think all of that is a bit overcomplicated. 29:02 The autism world as being in the grip of the researchers/parents mafia’s. 30:00 Every child should have an education that explains the power structres around them. 30:20 How LGBTI/Feminism/political views exploded the simplicity of the world we grew up in. 31:20 The pharmaceutical industry and it’s desire to have more of a handle on the world of autism. 31:45 The rise of the power of medical doctors. 32:18 Medicating and mucking around with genes….eugenic attitudes and live testing on children. 33:14 Changing autistic behaviours equals changing how people’s brains are… 34:50 When autistics do not qualify to be disordered. When you cannot make absolute statements about disability or ability, whilst needing to in order to get support and understanding. 35:20 When you have to portray yourself as inadequate in order to have any chance of getting the support you need from the sources that might be available. 36:30 Neither of us can do pity porn. 37:20 The no win scenario is just that. Diagnosis as being damned. 37:47 The Bridge and The Tunnel tv shows are discussed. 38:20 How things are and where you would like them to go, Dinah? 38:50 There is a possibility we could attract the right attention and get the right support. 39:50 Dinah discusses her history with Autscape and the people involved. 41:30 Martijn Dekker and Jim Sinclair. 42:12 Being asked to speak. Launch of 1996 Autism Computing Webisite and the Upana website – Autistic People Against Neuroleptic Abuse. 42:50 David Andrews, Heta Pukki, Cassie Ann Sibley, Amanda Baggs. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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    16 Feb 2020

    The First Guerilla Aspies Podcast, February 2020. Vaxxed 2 London protest. Emma Dalmayne and friends, with lots of people we spoke to outside.

    The first Guerilla Aspies book and show podcast. By Paul Wady. FEEL FREE TO JUMP AROUND ANY PART YOU DESIRE. Here is a list of subjects and their location along the timeline. 1:54 Demonstration recording of the 12 of us outside the Tabernacle venue. 21:35 Introduction to Emma Dalmayne and AIM. 21:59 Explanation of my signs. 22:42 Explanation of my Parent Snuff Porn sign. 24:24 I am open to persuasion but so far, nothing... 24:43 Background of Vaxxed films, 1 and 2. 26:30 Tommey speaks! Excerpts from an interview film Polly Tommey recorded with two mothers inside the venue as we protested. 27:29 Attack on Emma Dalmayne and Fional O'Leary by Polly Tommey. 'Pharma Trolls'. 28:10 Ambiguity around just how long Tommey has been active was a problem here. I assumed 1998 but the magazine may have been 1999. 28:46 Polly Tommey - I CANNOT RECOMMEND ONE GOOD (medical) DOCTOR IN THE UK. 29:32 When did Tommey start following Wakefield? I am not sure here. Was the 8000 word signature real? 31:04 Polly Tommey - SWINE FLU VACCINE DOCTORS SHOULD BE IN JAIL. 31:35 Never another vaccination again for the rest of my life... 31:56 A reference to one Suzanne Humphreys, a discredited and controversial figure who backs up Tommey. They were both banned from entering Australia something like two years ago. 32:00 Polly Tommey - NOT ONE TEAR SHED. An attempt to initiate a Breaking Technique with the audiences? 32:18 Breaking Techniques and Love Bombing. 33:15 A discussion about Polly Tommey. 34:00 Excerpt of a YouTube film soundtrack from the summer of 2016 in which Polly Tommey says she would not judge parents who murder their autistic children in cold blood. 34:43 The Autism File magazine is dedicated to only portraying the umbrella term autism as meaning brain damage alone. Yet it has cited different causes that manifest identically. Could it work like that medically? 36:13 The conclusion of the Polly Tommey section. Have you ever met an Anti Vaxxer who concedes? 37:02 Just like in Louis Theroux MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE 2015, two women filmed us working as an organised and apparently trained film crew unit. They lied to us they were not anything to do with the Vaxxed people, but later we discovered one of them had a lanyard around her neck she was hiding. Also she actually said yet before running scared through the venue doorway. We have no idea what they will do with the film made, nor gave permission for the Vaxxed people to film us. Was this intimidation? 38:04 A description of the filming the Scientologists did in the Louis Theroux film. 39:06 Feedback on HOXTONPAUL@HOTMAIL.CO.UK please. 39:23 A message for the Vaxxed film people - why are you going around impersonating the Scientologists? 39(ish) Supposing its all true....why it is not. I explain what I think would have happened by now if there had ever been any basis in reality for the film. 41:18 QUACK CORNER. A regular feature on treatments, interventions, cures and generally turning us NEUROTYPICAL. 44:07 An introduction to Paul Wady's shows, which neglects to mention what else I get up to like the Guerilla Aspies book, t shirts, badges and my worst seller - fridge magnets. More personal details to come. 45:43 PARENTS VERSES AUTISTIC ADVOCATES. An attempt to settle things via perspective. Different communities on the metaphorical spectrum. Different opinions. Same Neurodiversity Movement... (HINT = It's a metaphor not a real thing). 53:53 The End. I thank you. :) Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity (http://supporter.acast.com/guerilla-aspies-autism-aspergers-syndrome-neurodiversity). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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