Kristen recently joined Dr. Kara Dymond and Bruce Petherick on the Autistic Tidbits and Tangents podcast. They discuss difficulties navigating medical care for autistic people, self-advocacy in medical settings and in general, what it means to be disabled, and much more. Check it out:
Season 3, episode 6 is here: Dr. Kim Sage, a Therapist Finding Her Place on the Autism Spectrum
Dr. Kim Sage is a licensed clinical psychologist in southern California. Dr. Sage joins me to discuss her discovery that she may be autistic, the problem of autism underdiagnosis, and the close connection between autism and personality disorders (especially narcissistic personality disorder) within families.
Dr. Sage also talks about her early autistic traits, friendship challenges, autistic traits’ impacts on romantic relationships, and more.
Watch this episode on YouTube.
Check out Dr. Sage’s website: Dr. Kim Sage
And her social media:
Kristen Hovet: 1:06
Today I’m speaking with Dr. Kim Sage, a licensed clinical psychologist based in Southern California, but before I share our conversation, I’d like to thank Colette for your generous one-time show of support to the Other Autism podcast.
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Season 3, episode 2 is here: Life After Late Autism Diagnosis With Melissa Elaine
Melissa Elaine, a music industry professional in California, shares the lead-up to getting an autism diagnosis just this past January and what life has been like ever since.
Melissa shares how past therapists chalked up her challenges to trauma and C-PTSD, dismissing her and her family’s well-informed suspicions that she may be autistic. She also shares her experiences of going nonverbal, her main autistic attributes as a child, and what aspects of life have changed since her late-autism assessment and identification.
Connect with Melissa on LinkedIn.
If you’d like to know more about topics discussed in this episode, check out:
“Females and Autism/Aspergers: A Checklist” by Samantha Craft
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price
So You Think You’re Autistic: A Workbook for the Confused Person Who’s Trying to Figure Things Out by Samantha Stein
Kristen Hovet: 1:06
Today I’m speaking with Melissa Elaine, a late-diagnosed autistic music industry professional from California.
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Season 2, episode 13 is here: Bereavement and Losing the Ability to Mask with Cat
Cat is an Australia-based, late-identified autistic individual who suddenly lost the ability to mask following the death of her baby.
Kristen and Cat discuss being autistic while undergoing fertility treatments, trauma in midlife, out-of-order loss and bereavement, polyvagal theory, the ways life crises often precede late identification of autism, and more.
If you’d like to know more about this topic, check out:
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
“Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)” —Cleveland Clinic
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry by Gary Greenberg
“In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)” —Mayo Clinic
“The Polyvagal Theory: New Insights Into Adaptive Reactions of the Autonomic Nervous System” by Stephen W. Porges
Season 2, episode 12 is here: Jennifer Dodd, an ‘AuDHDer’ and Therapist
Jennifer Dodd is a Portland-based therapist and owner of the Embodied Life Therapy Center. Jennifer is a late-diagnosed autistic individual who has also been diagnosed with the inattentive type of ADHD.
Kristen and Jennifer discuss the ways that ADHD and autism compete with and complement each other, neurodivergent loathing of CBT (sorry, not sorry, CBT!), best types of therapy for autistic folks, the autistic penchant for bottom-up thinking, the times when “mindful masking” just makes sense, and more.
Check out Jennifer’s website: Embodied Life Therapy Center
And her Instagram accounts:
Pictured: Heath Wilder in San Francisco, blissfully hanging off the side of a cable car, 2022.
Season two, episode nine is here: Heath Wilder, ‘Autigender’, and Autistic Empathy
Heath Wilder is the Director of Customer Experience at the Sydney Theatre Company in Sydney, Australia (Gadigal lands), and they were one of the first listeners of The Other Autism podcast — maybe even the first!
Listen as Kristen and Heath aggressively abstain from small talk and dive right in to gender, autigender (aka gendervague), the female autism phenotype or presentation, the double empathy problem, alexithymia, masking, meltdowns, shutdowns, and more.
Check out Heath’s website: Heath Wilder — a journey in the performing arts
British Columbia, Canada
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