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If you've ever felt that you were doing your actual job perfectly well but somehow failing at the social expectations that come with it, in this episode you’ll hear the reasons, how bosses see you and what you can do to be understood.

The Articulate Autistic, Jaime Heidel, discusses her new book Before You Fire Them: A Practical Guide to Understanding Your Autistic Employee's Traits, Intentions, and Communication Style. She explains how autistic employees are seen by bosses and other employees and how we can navigate our workplaces as autistics.

We talk about things like:

• The hidden meanings behind questions
• The written instructions dilemma
• The problem with asking why
• The office greeting mystery
• The eye contact double standard
• Feedback that feels like an attack
• The mystery of being a team player
• The hyper-competence trap
• Getting promoted and paid what you're worth

And more!

Jaime A. Heidel is The Articulate Autistic, an autistic writer and content creator who explores the misunderstandings between autistic and neurotypical people.

Her new book, Before You Fire Them: A Practical Guide to Understanding Your Autistic Employee's Traits, Intentions, and Communication Style

Another Jaime Heidel book: What Did I Do Wrong?

Find Jaime here:
Website: https://thearticulateautistic.com
TikTok: @thearticulateauti

Link to previous episode with Jaime Heidel: What Did I Do Wrong?

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Sol Smith, author of The Autistic’s Guide to Self-Discovery, returns to the show to share what he’s learned from his own late diagnosis, more than two decades in the classroom, and years of coaching neurodivergent adults. His new book, The ADHDer’s Guide to Self-Discovery: Thriving with Your High-Energy Mind, is packed with real-world strategies. This episode helps you put them to work.

What you’ll hear more about in this episode:

• Making sense of the overlap between ADHD and autism
• Why you feel lazy when you know you’re not and what you can do about it
• Building relationships and support that work for you
• Getting a lot done in a way that fits how your brain works
• Creating a schedule that supports your natural energy
• Why habits are harder for ADHDers and a better way to approach them
• How to get out of the trap of perfectionism and overworking

Also in this episode:

• How Sol’s years of teaching shaped his coaching
• What to say when people brush it off with “everybody does that”
• What good support from friends, family, and therapists can look like
• A question Sol wishes more people would ask

About the guest:

Sol Smith, PhD, is an author, coach, and former professor who taught for more than 25 years. He is autistic and ADHD, and he reaches a wide audience through his YouTube channel and an online support community.

Connect with Sol:

Sol’s website https://www.professorsol.com/

Book: The ADHDer’s Guide to Self-Discovery: Thriving with Your High-Energy Mind

Book: The Autistic’s Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing As A Neurodivergent Adult

Sol’s YouTube Channel

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There’s a reason routine appeals so strongly to some autistic minds while feeling like the enemy for others. Learn the surprisingly powerful rituals many neurodivergent people rely on, the everyday tasks that are worth putting on autopilot, and the parts of life better left wide open. And you might want to know why a routine you choose feels entirely different from one imposed on you. Whether routines are a lifeline, a struggle, or a bit of both, this episode offers fresh ways to think about them.

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When she started her medical practice, Dr. Mel Houser quickly realized there was a lack of healthcare that addressed the needs of neurodivergent people. She set out to challenge traditional norms to make care accessible. Along with her success came something she never expected—a new way of growing a community built around more than just medicine.

From chronic illness to employment support and beyond, that kind of healthcare exists and in this episode you’ll learn about the resources that will guide you toward getting it.

Dr. Houser, author of A Failure of Imagination: How the Healthcare System Fails Neurodivergent People—And What We're Doing Instead, tells how you can be empowered to recognize how your body feels and trust your intuition about your health. She provides the tools for you and for your healthcare provider to understand each other’s language. She explains how involving her community of patients defines how she practices neuroinclusive medicine.

In a world of growing isolation, Dr Houser reveals the serious health implications of loneliness and offers a solution.

It’s time for a change and this is where you can make a difference in your own life. Find out how in this conversation with Dr. Melissa Houser.

Website: All Brains Belong

Book: A Failure of Imagination: How the Healthcare System Fails Neurodivergent People—And What We're Doing Instead

Resources: All Brains Belong Digital Resource Library

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Menopause touches almost everyone eventually, whether you're the one going through it, supporting someone who is, or know it's coming someday. Most of us walk into it with almost no real information. This episode is here to change that especially if you're autistic or love someone who is.

This conversation, with information drawn from a recent study and the book Dr. Rachel Moseley wrote with her co-author Dr. Julie Gamble-Turner, Autistic Menopause: A Guide to the Menopausal Transition for Autistic People and Those Supporting Them gives you the information that’s important to know for this significant time of our lives, including:

• why menopause can hit autistic people harder;
• the double impact on memory and executive function;
• why masking often becomes impossible to sustain;
• what it does to communication while managing eye contact, tone, and content all at once.

Rachel talks about something rarely discussed—the genuine upsides many autistic women report once they're through it.

This is an enlightening conversation with researcher and psychologist Dr. Rachel Moseley. Check the link below to learn how you can participate in a study about menopause and its treatment.

About the guest: Rachel Moseley, PhD, Principal Academic in Psychology at Bournemouth University (PhD in cognitive neuroscience) co-author of Autistic Menopause: A Guide to the Menopausal Transition for Autistic People and Those Supporting Them.

Rachel’s website: Science on the Spectrum

Contact Rachel

Get the book here: Autistic Menopause: A Guide to the Menopausal Transition for Autistic People and Those Supporting Them

*You’re invited to participate in a new study on menopause symptoms, treatment and neurodiversity. Use this link to get started. This is an online survey about menopause and menopause treatment. The researchers are particularly interested in how experiences of menopause treatment might differ between neurotypical and neurodivergent people and need to hear from people of all neurotypes.

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Occupational therapy can empower autistics in our every day lives. Carolyn Gillen, an autistic occupational therapist working with neurodivergent women, breaks down how occupational therapy for autistic adults can help with:

• recognizing hunger, thirst, and nervous system signals your body may not flag clearly;
• navigating sensory processing that can swing between overwhelming and numb;
• advocating for yourself in a doctor's office when your pain doesn't match your expression;
• making small, practical shifts you can actually use;
• breaking burnout into function, not willpower;
• how OT treats these as functional, fixable friction points in daily life, not personality flaws to correct.

She tells how to recognize a safe, supportive therapeutic space. She explains why coaching, burnout, and meditation might be worth a second look from an OT perspective.

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You did everything you were supposed to do — showed up, did the homework, tried the techniques. And it left you feeling worse…or definitely not better. This episode gets into why standard talk therapy often misses autistic people and what a version built for our brains actually looks like.

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We autistics have a type of wealth, or capital, as a result of adapting, coping and growing as individuals with neurodivergent challenges. Essy Knopf, a therapist and author, has developed the Neurodivergent Cultural Wealth Framework, a valuable way to look at our neurodivergence. In this episode he explains what makes up the framework and how it enriches our lives with:

• Self-Knowledge Capital
• Adaptation Capital
• Pattern Recognition Capital
• Community Capital
• Resistance Capital
• Embodied Capital
• Passion Capital
• Identity Capital
• Meaning-Making Capital

This framework goes beyond deficit views of autistics and neurodivergents and explains how we have developed forms of knowledge, adaptation, perspective, and wisdom that are often overlooked when attention is focused solely on those deficits. This framework gives us a whole new way of looking at our lives.

Website: https://essyknopf.com/

Check out Essy's YouTube channel

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New book: Unscramble Your Brain: A Neurodivergent Guide to Getting Things Done, Your Way

Other books by Essy Knopf available at https://www.essyknopf.com and book retailers:

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

Neurodivergent Game Plan

Neurodivergent Game Plan: The Workbook

The Neuroaffirming Therapy Handbook

Unmasking

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Season 12 is here with new episodes! Listen for a preview of what’s to come.

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Self-help fails autistics but why? This episode reveals the not-so-obvious reason it can do more harm than good and provides some tips for what you can do instead. Hear it again.

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This is a replay of an episode from 2024 where I talk to Jackie Schuld, author of What is Autism? Jackie shares her insights and knowledge about autism, how it affects her and what it was like learning she’s autistic. Listen and meet the autistic brain of author, artist and therapist, Jackie Schuld. The information is just as relevant as it was before and is a great refresher!

Get the book! https://www.jackieschuld.com/books
Find Jackie on Medium: https://medium.com/@jackieschuld
Website: https://www.jackieschuld.com/
Resource page: https://www.jackieschuld.com/artactivities

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The regions of the brain that play a role in resilience are the areas of the brain most affected by autism. Is it possible for an autistic person to be resilient? The answer may surprise you.

Resilience assessment tool: https://www.everydayhealth.com/wellness/resilience/get-your-resilience-score/

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There’s a key to connection that unlocks the door of isolation and loneliness. Truly connecting is not possible without it. What is it? The answer is in this episode.

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When you can’t respond to an email or phone call, when you don’t move forward on a project, when you feel stuck in any area of your life you’re facing a “Wall of Awful.” Brendan Mahan, author of Overcoming The Wall of Awful; Why It's Hard to Get Things Done with ADHD, Autism, and Anxiety (and How to Do Them Anyway) has uncovered the reasons we face the wall. He offers solutions and tips that will get you going. He shares helpful insights and stories that you haven’t heard before. You’re not “lazy” and you don’t lack willpower. Find out what the wall is really about so you can finally do the things you want to do.

What we talk about in this episode includes:

• Why everyday tasks can feel overwhelming
• How to recognize the Wall of Awful
• Why thinking you’re “lazy” is a dead end
• Why the ways people respond to the Wall of Awful don’t work
• How to reduce the barrier to getting started
• How to meet your brain's basic needs to create lasting change

Preorder/buy the book (out September 1, 2026): Overcoming The Wall of Awful; Why It's Hard to Get Things Done with ADHD, Autism, and Anxiety (and How to Do Them Anyway)

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If you missed this one be sure to listen now. Or if you remember how great it was, how about another listen? In this episode you’ll hear author Jaime A. Heidel, The Articulate Autistic, talk about her book What Did I Do Wrong? An Accessible Guide to Preventing Traumatic Misunderstandings Between You and Your Autistic Loved One. Jamie has great insight into what it’s like to be autistic and how/why people misunderstand us.

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Jaime’s website: http://thearticulateautistic.com/
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This is probably not the first time you’re hearing that many autistic and ADHD adults struggle on the job and not just due to sensory issues, although that’s a factor for sure. The bigger problem may be something else entirely. Something that has a solution.

In this episode David Raynor tells his own story about a career path of jobs frequently won then lost and how he tired of hearing he had “so much potential.” After getting lots of failed advice from people who meant well, David turned inward and found answers. And he knows you can, too and that you don’t have to do it alone.

David talks about Professionally Neurospicy, a community for neurodivergents to get the support they need in their jobs and careers. You’ll hear David’s advice about the one thing we can do to get the satisfaction we want.

In this episode you’ll also learn:

• Why many neurodivergent careers follow a cycle of success, burnout, and starting over
• How to make better career decisions
• Why workplaces benefit when neurodivergent employees are supported to thrive
• How accommodations are actually workplace upgrades
• Managing hyperfocus without relying on willpower
• A different way of thinking about imposter syndrome
• Building the confidence to advocate for yourself at work
• What you'll find inside the Professionally NeuroSpicy community, including its Discord events, practical resources, and peer support for neurodivergent professionals

David’s website: Professionally Neurospicy

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We’ve waited for decades for an autism assessment tool that reflects the experiences of adult women. The older diagnostic tools based on research of autistic boys left many of us misdiagnosed, overlooked, or completely missed.

Dr. Rebecca Evanko set out to change that. After her own diagnosis at age 47, she used her background in cognitive linguistics, clinical practice and research to create an autism screening instrument developed specifically for adult women. It’s based on women’s personal experiences. It’s called WRADIANCE© Instrument and Protocol and is going into Phase III Clinical Trial.

In this episode Rebecca also explains why the words clinicians choose can dramatically change an assessment outcome, how autistic burnout is often mistaken for personality disorders, and why traits like heightened pattern recognition and focused persistence deserve recognition as autistic strengths rather than symptoms to be explained away.

The conversation also turns to identity after diagnosis, the grief many late-diagnosed women experience, and why therapies that include the body—not just the intellect—can play an important role in healing. Rebecca shares how equine-assisted therapy can help autistic women connect thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations in ways that traditional talk therapy often cannot.

In this episode:

• The words a real psych evaluation used to describe an autistic woman and what they actually mean
• Why cognitive linguistics — the study of how thought and language shape each other — explains so much of why women get missed
• What existing autism assessments overlook about adult women
• How autistic pattern recognition can appear as "intuition"
• The women’s autistic strengths that deserve greater recognition
• What horses can reveal about emotional regulation that talk-therapy alone cannot
• And more that would make this list much too long

Dr. Rebecca Evanko’s website

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In this episode you’ll hear from Tanya Roberts about Mindfulness Done Differently. For those of us who find meditation and mindfulness difficult Tanya has a solution. She teaches a method that works for autistic people by taking sensory needs into account. She also created a supportive community of other autistics who are learning and practicing these skills.

Next, Tanya answers four unique questions about being an autistic woman. She shares deeply personal insights about her life now and before knowing she is autistic.

Website: Mindfulness Done Differently

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The medical system wasn't built for women who ask too many questions, need more time, or leave an exam still wanting answers. As a result many women have learned not to trust their bodies and their needs. Nikki Vinckier, a Physician’s Assistant, spent a decade working in medical care before she decided to write the manual it didn’t come with.

This conversation is not just about what's broken, but about what you can actually do about it before your next appointment.

In this episode you’ll hear:

• How the history of reproductive healthcare still shows up in exam rooms today
• What medical gaslighting is and why autistic women are especially vulnerable
• Why a clinician can’t address your health issues during your annual exam
• How to communicate symptoms when the one-to-ten scale makes no sense for your brain
• The approach that gets you care in an autistic-friendly environment
• What trauma-informed care looks like in practice
• Why you don't have to disclose that you're autistic, and what to say instead
• Grounding techniques for exam rooms and waiting rooms

Nikki's book: We Deserve More: Why Health Care is Broken and What You Can Do About It

The We Deserve More Workbook: A Companion for Navigating Your Reproductive Healthcare

Take Back Trust: Nikki's platform for visit prep, reproductive health information, and combating medical misinformation.

Find Nikki: All social media platforms at @NikkiVinck

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Allie Memery never imagined that a late autism diagnosis at age 57 could be the launching pad for a whole new, satisfying life. In this episode she talks about the thing that became her special interest, the path to self-regulation and the social life that she couldn’t have expected.

She did it all while handling menopause, taking care of her aging mother and facing her own personal challenges.

Alllie talks candidly about:

• How menopause amplified her sensory sensitivities long before she had any framework to understand why
• The physical toll of years of unaccommodated autistic needs — and how the body keeps score
• What it took to actually slow down when you've masked for decades
• The unexpected source of regulation and community she discovered after her diagnosis
• How her life was changed by a nature-inspired special interest
• The peer support she now offers other late-diagnosed adults, and why she built it the way she did

This one is practical, honest, and genuinely warm — exactly what you want from someone who's a few steps ahead on a path you might just be starting.

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