Episode 3 - My repetitive, intense interests and behaviours

In this episode, I set out a number of wider traits common in autistic individuals and how I experience them. Including absolute thinking, sensory issues, monotropism, meltdowns, shutdowns, context blindness and alexythymia.

In this episode I describe the experience of having repetitive and intense interests and behaviours, and how they impact on my life and health.

In this episode, I share the ways in which I experience the diagnostic criterion of social communication and interaction challenges.

In this episode I share the reasons for unpublishing my original podcast episodes, and how I will be approaching the reboot in a different way.

In this episode, I explain why I'm saying goodbye to the Autistic at 40 podcast, what I've learned in the past 3 years, and what will come next.

In this episode, I share what I have learned about the links between AuDHD and Personality Disorder and ask questions based on experiences from my own life.

In this episode I share some sense I am making about the nature of emotional dysfunction in my family, and particularly how this impacted my relationships with my parents.

In this episode, I talk about the pitfalls and benefits of being an autistic leader, based on my own experiences.

In this episode I talk about my body as a source of expression, awe, distress and pleasure. 

Today I share a lot more about how I experience PDA as an adult, what triggers it and how I am learning to manage it day to day.