Autism Advocate

In this episode, I go over the most common responses I get to telling people I'm autistic, along with what NOT to say and why you shouldn't say it.   One that I forgot is - never tell someone they don't look autistic.  Autism does not have a look.  People seem to think it is like Downs Syndrome when it isn't. 

2025 CRITICAL UPDATE: I've since learned that Wim Hof breathing can trigger seizures in people with epilepsy or certain neurological conditions. I was unknowingly experiencing seizure activity during this practice. Approximately 20-30% of autistic people have epilepsy (often undiagnosed). Please consult a neurologist before trying extreme breathing practices, especially if you're autistic. The res...

How do you know if you're neurodivergent or neurotypical?

In autism, the cerebellum is hypoactive and does not have as many purkinje cells and this impacts motor skill development, emotional regulation, short term memory, spatial awareness, and many other things.   In this episode, I talk about what I've struggled with and acknowledge these struggles and vulnerabilities that I experience and likely will continue to experience in my life.

Buying and wearing clothing is a huge source of stress in the autism community.  It's more than wanting to wear clothes that feel good - trying to force an autistic person with sensory issues to wear triggering clothing feels about as painful as stepping on a tac with your bare feet.   In this episode, I talk about these struggles with clothing, what that looks like for me, and a few solutions I'v...

In this episode I talk about gender nonconformity, how it is more prevelant in the autistic community. Neurodivergent people are a lot more likely to be trans, nonbinary, and GNC.  This adds an extra layer of vulnerability on top of being autistic that is rarely talked about or considered.  

In this episode, I explain how it feels to dissociate - aka shutdown - how responding verbally is very difficult when I'm in the middle of a shutdown, and the wide variety of triggers that cause it along with strange feelings that go along with it.   Find me on Facebook for free weekly music! https://www.facebook.com/mypianocreations Find me on Spotify and Apple Music for music specifically geared...

There are many differences between how autistics socialize versus NTs.  I talk about some of these differences in today's podcast.   Find me on Facebook for free weekly music! https://www.facebook.com/mypianocreations Find me on Spotify and Apple Music for music specifically geared towards the flow state! https://music.apple.com/us/artist/kelsey-cameron/1169653082 https://music.apple.com/us/artist...

Being autistic has so many strengths, we have a unique ability to be ourselves unequivocally without conforming to a social norm. Who you are is a beautiful person! You ARE worthy of love and all the joy in the world. One act of kindness can go such a long way.   Being autistic in itself comes with a sense of freedom - freedom of expression without concern of judgements.  And anyone can experience...

In this episode, I explain how and why executive dysfunction is so prevalent in autism, and I share my experiences with it. Neurotypicals can struggle with executive dysfunction too - but autism significantly increases the likelihood of some kind of executive dysfunction because of a combination of sensory issues (likely related to the insula and amygdala connections in the brain), combined with a...

This episode and future episodes will help you understand yourself at a deeper level & learn how to unequivocally be YOU without apology. :)   In this episode, I talk about the struggles that autistic people deal with throughout our lives. Why is it important to you, to know who you are?   I discovered that I am autistic at the age of 26 - after spending years of my life wondering why I am differe...