Does He Ever Shut That Motor Off? | Nicole Carbone (S9E17)
This episode is sponsored by PESI. Nicole Carbone's son Luca is almost four, nonspeaking, and diagnosed with Level 2 autism. When he can't tell her what he needs, he bangs his head on whatever is clos...
3 Sep 18min
I Feel Like I'm Tolerated | Melvin Lopez (S9E16)
Melvin Lopez is autistic. So is his five year old son, Mateo. And the first thing Melvin does in this conversation is take apart the assumption that those two facts give them something in common. "If...
27 Aug 24min
The Brain Isn't Broken, It's Inflamed | Dr. Theoharides (S9E15)
Dr. Theoharis Theoharides is back, and this time we got into the stuff that has been all over the news. Leucovorin. Tylenol. Benadryl. Underneath the headlines there is actual science, and Dr. Theo wa...
20 Aug 1h 5min
The Day He Called Her Mom | Deena Nathan (S9E14)
Deena Nathan's five year old son Hayden is autistic and non-speaking, and he's fluent on his AAC device. In this episode she walks through a day that starts with therapy at 8am, the win she's still no...
12 Aug 23min
Outsourcing the Panic | Erin Lamb (S9E13)
Erin Lamb has been a speech language pathologist for 26 years. She runs a Baltimore nonprofit with its own school for autistic kids. She has a Ph.D. She still missed her own daughter's autism. Why do...
22 Jul 34min
What Level 2 Autism Can Look Like | Lauren Murray (S9E12)
“Most people don’t even tag her with autism, because she’s smart, she’s so articulate.” Lauren Murray Lauren Murray is a New Jersey mom of two, and her daughters are almost twenty years apart. Her ol...
15 Jul 15min
Autism in Real Life | Christine Bauereis (S9E11)
"Accommodating these children is like giving them a lifeline, and these children are worthy of it." Christine Bauereis didn't find out she was autistic and ADHD until her 30s. The clarity came the ...
1 Jul 14min
Stop Comparing the Hard, Start Validating It | Heidi Price (S9E10)
"Stop comparing the hard. Start validating the hard." That one line from Heidi Price might be the whole episode. Heidi spent years in the autism community before she was a mom. She worked as a recrea...
17 Jun 20min
