Neuro Rainbow Cast with Autisticly Aar
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Neurodivergent mother to two neurodivergent children with PDA amongst other diagnoses of autism, ADHD and dyslexia. Chrissie shares all about her neurodivergent family and her content creation advocating and raising awareness of pathological demand avoidance. In this episode we have a deep dive into what PDA is. Email: neurorainbow@neurorainbowproject.com Social-Media: @neurorainbowproject on Instagram/TikTok/Threads/Facebook/YouTube Visit website: https://neurorainbowproject.com/neurocast Reach out to help: https://neurorainbowproject.com/olive-branch Follow Chrissie Robinson across social media: TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@everydaypda Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/everydaypda/ find more helpful PDA resources: https://linktr.ee/everydaypda * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Disability rights activist and founder of a non-profit providing scholarships to disadvantaged low-income students with Project Ascend, political campaigner and former Capitol Hill worker. In the first 'Disabled In America' explores her political life and how inequalities in schooling inspired her to a path in politics describing Barack Obama as one of her inspirations. We chat about the racial inequalities for a black disabled woman living in America who has had to fight to get her basic needs and is fighting 'for a better america' what does that look like' Disabled In America will be dropping episodes in the Neuro Rainbow Cast feed exploring policy and lives of minorities of the highly powerful nation where international political coverage is dominated by the partisan and the personality politics Autisticly Aar ahead of the next Presidential Election will explore this overlooked area of international political coverage of American politics taking notes of what could be learnt from the advocates and activists of the communities collective activism. For more visit:https://neurorainbowproject.com/ and with correspondence email neurorainbow@neurorainbowproject.com for more about Ola visit: https://olaojewumi.com/ * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
DJ Lucky Light shares her autistic and adhd life from growing up to becoming a rising star in the Seattle EDM club and rave scene. There’s very few neurodivergent women in club DJing. Talking about how to cope with the sensory world of the bright lights and loud music of club scenes where she is kniown for sucking a pacifier as she performs. For first time customers with PacifierAddict.com can use the discount code NEUROCAST to get 5% off your first time order. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Author behind the memoir Everything Is Going To Be K.O chats life with learning difficulties and her ability and passion for story telling Visit www.neurorainbowproject.com For more about everything is going to be k.o visit https://www.everythingko.com/ * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
TW/CW: references to personal trauma, social media bullying and hate, bullying, suicidal ideation and mild references to assault. Saranne is a content creator on TikTok creating videos of her doing her make up and talking about being neurodivergent. She chats to Autisticly Aar about her route to a diagnoses, misdiagnoses, mental health and the reality of the life of a content creator and how she manages the hate that comes with an account 100,000+ followerrs on TikTok. If been affected by any issues raised in this episode please visit: https://neurorainbowproject.com/olive-branch Email: neurorainbow@neurorainbowproject.com * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
TW; Mentions f suicidal thoughts, depression and childhood bullying Freelance journalist Nicholas Fearn joins Autisticly Aar to talk about his career in journalism, his mental health and school experience in a honest chat around mental health in the autistic community If you are affected by any issues mentioned in the podcast visit for more: https://neurorainbowproject.com/olive-branch support the podcast via: https://ko-fi.com/neurorainbowproject email: neurorainbow@neurorainbwproject.com and find on social media @neurorainbowproject.com * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ciara Lawrence a charity spokesperson and media advocate for the learning disability charity Men Cap chats to Autisticly Aar about her life living with a learning disability as to a specific learning difficulty. We chat also about her ‘Pink Sparkle Podcast’ which has featured Penny Mourdant Conservative MP and Krishnan Guru-Murphy Channel 4 News reader and Strictly Come Dancing 2023 contestant. You can also watch and read this interview at www.neurorainbowproject.com * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Confidence coach Lydia Powell chat’s to Autisticly Aar about her work as a confidence coach but what lead to that. Exploring her neurodivergent story as a woman who got misdiagnosed before finding herself as ADHD to helping other neurodivergent women. It’s a blockbuster interview with an extensive story of life with ADHD, insomnia Tourettes disorder and disordered eating CW: Mild non-graphic references to disordered eating for support with eating disorders visit: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/ for more about the podcast visit: www.neurorainbowproject.com follow on social media:@neurorainbowproject email: neurorainbow@neurorainbowproject.com support the podcast: https://ko-fi.com/neurorainbowproject Watch on YouTube and facebook * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trainee educational psychologist and former assistant SENDCO in a English primary school Tiffany Nelson joins Autisticly Aar to chat about the state of education in schools in UK * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Autisticly Aar welcomes Athina Spann to the podcast for a collaboration episode with Athina's podcast 'Let's Talk Disability' where we talk life with autism and dyspraxia. You can watch this episode on Youtube and Facebook Watch; Subscribe on Youtube: https://youtube.com/@RainbowcastPlayer?si=-p_OgF415LUW4al support the podcast:https://ko-fi.com/neurorainbowproject * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Harriet Kemsley earlier this year joined Autisticly Aar to chat about her dyspraxia diagnoses and career in comedy You can now simultaneously watch the releases of the podcast on Facebook Watch and YouTube as it goes out on acast supported platforms. Watch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/dYF2kfEufuM support the pod: https://ko-fi.com/neurorainbowproject * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this interview of the Neuro Rainbow Cast with Autisticly Aar. Aar chats to neurodivergent affirming British child occupational therapist Holly Sprake-Hill about her work as an occupational therapist, parenting autistic children and what is special education has been like for her child. We also talk about her own diagnoses of dyslexia, dyspraxia, autism and ADHD. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ciara McCarthy (She/They) discusses her experiences as a deaf autistic person who has Cerebral Palsy and her activism and advocacy work encouraging other young people to be politically active and furthering the cause for disability education and inclusive education for disabled people. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Autistic speech and language therapist Emily Price (She/Her) discusses her profession as a speech and language therapist, the communicative differences of neurodivergent people and what use does speech and language therapy have for neurodivergent people. She also discussed her autism diagnoses that came after she qualified as a speech and language experience and talks of her own diagnoses. Emily speaks clear of her privilege and position in her field never having been referred to such therapies herself after late discovery of being neurodivergent whilst she provides training and indirect support and advocacy work for those who work with neurodivergent people and provides supervision and training for those in her field. She highlights whilst she receives requests of autistic parents and guardians and support her work is focused and working with autistic/neurodivergent adults and providing indirect support and not specialising on the therapies tailored to younger service users under the age of 10. CW: Mild minor references to body dysmorphia and eating disorders. Helpful services for action, advice and support can be found on www.neurorainbowproject.com Email: neurocast@neurorainbowproject.com Twitter:@NeuroRainbowUK FB//IG/TT:@Neurorainbowproject Host: Aar Jae Williams * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Leena Sarah Farhat (She/They) chats to Autisticly Aar about her diagnoses of autism, about how they masked and how people underestimate the talents of Autistic people sharing the unique skills and advantages to focused interests to autistic community and relationships. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rachel Winder (She/Her) returns to chat to Autisticly Aar about her campaign and petition for the British government to introduce a statutory regulator and governing body to improve the care and interventions that autistic people are faced with. When national scandals and trauma stories of abuse continue to be told. She answers what it would mean to fix regulation were it fails to be regulated and the needed checks and balances and easy to access support where there isn't. Answering her one thing to make things better for neurodivergent people Rachel's Social Media:@auticulate (Twitter and TikTok) Neuro Rainbow Project's Social Media: @neurorainbowproject (Facebook/Instagram/TikTok and YouTube) @NeuroRainbowUk on twitter Email: neurocast@aarowcreo.com View the petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637183 Podcast Host and Producer: Aaron J Williams, Aaron Audio Production for Neuro Rainbow Project * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedian Variety D chats to Autisticly Aar about her experiences as a black disabled comedian in Britain, about her epilepsy, ADHD and autistic brothers. contact the show: neurocast@aarowcreo.com for more: www.neurorainbowproject.com * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedian Variety D chats to Autisticly Aar about her experiences as a black disabled comedian in Britain, about her epilepsy, ADHD and autistic brothers. contact the show: neurocast@aarowcreo.com for more: www.neurorainbowproject.com * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Eryn Tett (She/Her) British comedian and actor talks to Autisticly Aar about her career in alternative comedy and her autism diagnoses * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Luke (He/Him) chats to Autisticly Aar about his autism diagnoses and a career in stand-up that challenges the tired old trope of autistic people not being funny. An insightful that autistic people really can be funny. email: neurocast@neurorainbowproject.com / neurocast@aarowcreo.com visit: www.neurorainbowproject.com Follow Facebook/ Instagram/ TikTok: @neurorainbowproject * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sara (She/Her) chats to Autisticly Aar about her memoir Drama Queen A lifetime of labels about the journey in her life to find the life changing label of autism and being autistic. We chat around the privilege of being able to tell your story and the importance that people from diverse backgrounds are giving the platform to tell theirs believing the importance of changing perceptions of autism through the words of autistic people. She chats about the importance of those in scientific research fields to listen and learn from autistic people and not to ignore our needs and touching on her previous work of a satirical comedian writer on panel shows and the experience of working in a writing room with other comedic script writers * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rachel Winder (She/Her) chats to Autisticly Aar about her late diagnoses of autism, ADHD. with conversations on having late diagnoses, life for neurodivergent people as a minority group and her recent chat on the BBC's Anti-Social series. She is an influencer content creator on neurodivergent issues which is an avid focused interest of Winder who has studied autism at post graduate level. She shares her experience and expertise with Autisticly Aar. Email: neurocast@aarowcreo.com Social Media: @neurorainbowproject Website: https://neurorainbowproject.aarowcreo.com https://neurorainbowproject.aarowcreo.com/ Rachel's Blog: https://littlebearinthewood.wixsite.com/littlebearinthewood Rachel on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/498626280894827/?ref=share Rachel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/auticulate?lang=en-GB Rachel on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@auticulate?lang=en Referenced BBC Podcast:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hg00 * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tessa McEnvoy She/Her In this interview with myself explores her diagnoses of apraxia, as well as sensory processing disorder, bipolar disorder and autism. On Facebook she has created the 'Apraxia Story' blog, a blog which is where she writes of her diagnoses of apraxia and neurodivergent conditions and her experiences of being an adoptee. In this interview she touches on her experience of an adoptee, which has given her trauma of being gaslit, manipulated and exploited in what she describes as abuse with her adopted family and shares her not so easy challenge of seeking to live a free and independent life in an abled world with such conditions been taken advantage of by others and how it can be hard to self-advocate. Telling of the challenges a person with oral-motor apraxia may have with communicating she shares how it can prove challenges in school and the work place when its all so difficult to advocate for yourself and get the necessary working conditions that she needs with useful advice to give to teachers and employers about the needs of neurodivergent people. You can support Apraxia Story on Patreon;https://www.patreon.com/user?u=43542084&fbclid=IwAR3ZWiCGxbqGO76EgOG018q-Bh6K1IZGKI8_-mBAfTLrlH5ulls-c9SkGP0 You can follow Apraxia Story Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/ApraxiaStory * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
She/Her contains references to self injurious meltdowns and references to the ideation of unaliving ones self. Jess speaks to Autisticly Air about her diagnoses of autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, endometriosis and interstitial cystitis a condition which affects the bladder. She speaks of her late diagnoses and honestly her internalised ableism prior to coming to terms that she is autistic with stereotypes of autism in a patriarchal society proving a barrier of what she thought was autism. She speaks of how in the coronavirus pandemic it has helped peal a layer of the mask of and grow a popular TikTok channel where she shares content about her disabilities, social causes she is passionate and funny videos. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Darryl Morris He/Him Chats to Autisticly Aar about his ADHD diagnoses as a young child and how his ADHD proved an advantage in curiosity and in his career as a broadcast journalist. formerly working with Radio X, Talk TV now you can hear Darryl every Saturday and Sunday night 22:00-01:00 on Times Radio * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
She/Her Harriet is a comedian you may have seen her pop up across the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Comedy Central all over TV shows like Live At The Apollo and 8 Out of Ten Cats Does Countdown. As well as radio programmes and podast including one she hosted with comedian friend Sunil Patel called 'Why Is Harriet Crying'. This episode features no intro and no outro I recorded them but technology became an enemy and is a rival of mine (it should easily work, why not) enough of my tech rage. this was a fun and enjoyable interview one that made me laugh out loud and hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed this interview. Follow @neurorainbowproject @aarneurorainbow on Facebook Instragram and Twitter for any updates and any questions send them to neurocast@aarowcreo.com if got any podcasting advice appreciate it Autisitcly Aar x * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Natalie Balmain She/Her. Winner and contestant of Channel 4's political reality show Make Me Prime Minister where over six episodes a select few of Britain's want to be prime minister's see whether they can make it to downing street, albeit a prop set for television only, close enough. In an age where politics defined by permacrisis and is in unsteady times. Westminister seems far from the rest of the country where as Natalie the alternative prime minister makes her case for an alternative. A mixed race northern woman who is aromantic, has ADHD, type 1 diabetes and believes in a progressive and empathetic approach telling her neurodivergent story, her challenges, struggles, ideas, ambition. She shares a story quite frankly of one where she had at times imposter syndrome, a word that until recently Tony Blair only found the meaning of. Shares a frank and honest glimpse of her life, the need for neurodivergent and those from all walks of life in power and politics and what she would do for change for neurodivergent people in the world. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Sara Jane Harvey interview @agonyautie She/Her. Chatting on her return to activism, advocacy and public speaking. We go through her neurodivergent story, the story of how she found out she was autistic and her son got diagnosed as being autistic too. You can here her art for telling a personal story, a story of experience of listening and learning to others and the motives of driving things forward with the community of neurodivergent and disabled people and making a society that works for us. She speaks of a hope of humane compassion and empathy and passionate about bringing actions and solutions in the face of community suffering and trauma. This podcast features content that may reference suicidal ideation, mental health trauma, depression and the institutionalisation of autistic people and general themes of ableism. She over the two episodes tells an emotive and moving story. If at times what you hear is triggering for yourself skip bits, take a break come back to it. I want to focus on the listener and guests self care and wellbeing same for the guests with inclusion and accessibility. If there are things could be doing to warn or consider the wellbeing of listener when references to challenging themes email neurorainbow@aarowcreo.com or neurocast@aarowcreo.com or on social media @neurorainbowproject. The full video of this interview will be made watchable to subscribers only to the brand new patreon channel launching officially this January 2023 with interviews with Victoria Ellen and past and future guest videos with subtitled content (transcripts soon will be accessible to all without needing a subscription. Livestreams and other interactive experiences will be offered as with diaries and written journalism resources on social and communal issues I’m passionate and will tie in with the project. Rate, Review, share and encourage others to subscribe and listen leave positive vibes along the way Autisticly Aar Jae Williams Presenter of ‘Autisticly Aar’s Neurocast’ An Aarow Audio Production for the Neuro Rainbow Project * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is the first cross-over between Autisticly Aar’s NeuroCast podcast and another podcast. This chat has already been uploaded to Mason’s podcasting outlets and feeds including the video to YouTube titled ‘The Ultimate Podcast Crossover Special’ titled by Mason. I and Mason talk about our experiences of autism with me telling more of my own personal story and his. I chat to him about his diagnoses of chrons disease and autism. We also chat about both of our specific focused interests and life as podcast hosts. Email: neurocast@aarowcreo.com for any queries * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Happy New Year1 To bring in the new year is the first part of the Sara Jane Harvey interview @agonyautie She/Her. Chatting on her return to activism, advocacy and public speaking. We go through her neurodivergent story, the story of how she found out she was autistic and her son got diagnosed as being autistic too. You can here her art for telling a personal story, a story of experience of listening and learning to others and the motives of driving things forward with the community of neurodivergent and disabled people and making a society that works for us. She speaks of a hope of humane compassion and empathy and passionate about bringing actions and solutions in the face of community suffering and trauma. This podcast features content that may reference suicidal ideation, mental health trauma, depression and the institutionalisation of autistic people and general themes of ableism. She over the two episodes tells an emotive and moving story. If at times what you hear is triggering for yourself skip bits, take a break come back to it. I want to focus on the listener and guests self care and wellbeing same for the guests with inclusion and accessibility. If there are things could be doing to warn or consider the wellbeing of listener when references to challenging themes email neurorainbow@aarowcreo.com or neurocast@aarowcreo.com or on social media @neurorainbowproject. The full video of this interview will be made watchable to subscribers only to the brand new patreon channel launching officially this January 2023 with interviews with Victoria Ellen and past and future guest videos with subtitled content (transcripts soon will be accessible to all without needing a subscription. Livestreams and other interactive experiences will be offered as with diaries and written journalism resources on social and communal issues I’m passionate and will tie in with the project. Thank you for subscribing and sorry for any technical issues with this episodes output more professional production and top quality is coming soon. Stay tuned. May this be a good year for you and wishing you the best 2023. Autisticly Aar Jae Williams Presenter of ‘Autisticly Aar’s Neurocast’ An Aarow Audio Production for the Neuro Rainbow Project * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
