A podcast for autistic adults, especially those diagnosed late, navigating identity, sensory life, masking, burnout, and what it actually means to understand yourself after years of not having the words.
Created by the founder of HeyASD, a late-diagnosed autistic adult who started writing because the content he needed didn't exist. Every episode draws from original research and lived experience published at heyasd.com, one of the most-read autism content libraries for adults online.
Honest, grounded, and made without clinical distance. No awareness narratives. No parent perspectives. Just autistic experience, from the inside.
The founder has situational mutism and spent much of his teenage years non-verbal. Speaking has always been costly. AI audio tools make it possible to reach people who prefer audio without that cost. The research, thinking, and perspective are entirely his own.
Learn more: https://www.heyasd.com/pages/about (https://www.heyasd.com/pages/about)
Renegotiating Love: Late Diagnosis in a Long-Term Relationship
The diagnosis comes through on an ordinary Tuesday, and by the weekend you are standing in your own kitchen feeling like a stranger in a marriage you have been in for twenty years. The person your partner fell in love with was, in part, a performance you didn't know you were giving.
In this episode, we talk about what a late diagnosis asks of a long relationship — not the ending people fear, but the renegotiation: naming what you actually need around sensory load, recovery and communication; letting your partner grieve the old dynamic too; and rebuilding the unspoken contract on honest terms. You did not become someone else. You stopped performing — and a marriage built on the real you is sturdier than one built on a mask you could never have kept up.
Read the full article: https://www.heyasd.com/blogs/autism/late-autism-diagnosis-and-relationships
4 Oct 2026
I'm Autistic and I Don't Know How to Make Friends
You can be liked. You've learned how to be pleasant, useful, easy company. What you don't have is the map from "someone I see regularly" to "someone I'd call" — and the gap can feel like a private failing.
In this episode, we talk about making friends as an autistic adult — not by getting better at small talk, but by finding the people and the conditions where friendship doesn't run on a script you have to fake. We explore shared interests as a bridge, the relief of depth over breadth, and why the right kind of connection asks less of your mask, not more.
Read the full article: https://www.heyasd.com/blogs/autism/how-to-make-friends-as-an-autistic-adult
27 Sept 2026
Neurodivergent Love Languages: Connection on Your Terms
You show love by sending the article you couldn't stop thinking about, by sitting in the same room doing separate things, by fixing the thing that's been quietly bothering them. And sometimes it doesn't get read as love at all.
In this episode, we talk about neurodivergent love languages — the ways affection actually moves between autistic and neurodivergent people, when it doesn't fit the standard scripts. We explore info-dumping as intimacy, parallel presence as closeness, and practical care as devotion, and what becomes possible when you let yourself be loved in your own native dialect instead of translating it first.
Read the full article: https://www.heyasd.com/blogs/autism/neurodivergent-love-languages
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