Autism Stories: Becca Lory Hector

"Daily struggles of having apraxia so people can learn more compassion for autistics with extreme stress that sometimes causes them to look violent or defiant. Horrible being trapped in a body that of...

12 Okt 19min

"Universal design starts from a completely different premise. There’s no default patient. There’s no default human. So you design the whole system—the whole life cycle of how a patient interacts—flexi...

5 Okt 29min

"I really wanted it to be an authentic perspective—my authentic perspective. Autism shows up in a lot of different ways. I’m discovering people-pleasing is something I’m trying to unpack and understan...

28 Sep 23min

"I do understand why it’s so hard for many autistic lawyers to open up about their neurodivergence, because if you are open about your neurodivergence, you are more likely to be rejected when you are ...

21 Sep 14min

"Something is not working, and I would argue that what is not working is the framework. Neurodiversity justice asks a different set of questions. Instead of asking how neurodivergent people can naviga...

7 Sep 29min

"You can be college capable on paper, but not college ready. You can have that 4.5, 5.5 weighted GPA, but if you’re not college ready with the social-emotional piece of it, and you don’t know how to n...

31 Aug 18min

"Our coaching flows around obstacles rather than through them, just like water. Instead of pushing straight at a barrier, we reframe that obstacle itself, leaning into interdependence rather than inde...

24 Aug 14min

"“Oncology nurses need to think about how they communicate before what they communicate. No matter how much incredible knowledge that oncology nurse has, unless and until they know how that patient co...

17 Aug 44min