Autistic Small Talk

Episode 8 airs on CFUZ 92.9 FM broadcasting out of Penticton, B.C. and is streamable at cfuz.ca  on Sunday, September 14 at 3pm PST. Autistic Small Talk is a monthly show that airs the second Sunday of each month at 3pm, and appears in the archive the following Wednesday at 6am PST. In episode 8, Vince and Vanessa cruise through Elliot Wassell's paper Experiences of Autistic Joy , glimmers, and 2 field recordings containing stories of Autistic Joy. Citations and Resources Wassell, E. (2025). Experiences of autistic joy. Disability & Society, 1–26. Autistic Girls Network Autistic Realms on Glimmers Life writings of Autistic people mentioned in Wassell’s paper: McAnulty, D. 2020. Diary of a Young Naturalist. London: Ebury. Kedar, I. 2012. Ido in Autismland: Climbing out of Autism’s Silent Prison. Sharon Kedar. Tammet, D. 2006. Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir of Asperger’s and an Extraordinary Mind. London: Hodder and Stoughton. Williams, D. 1992. Nobody Nowhere. London, Doubleday. M...

Autistic Small Talk is now a stand-alone show. We have an archive page of all our past episodes that should be much easier to navigate than before. In episode 7, Vince and Vanessa talk fleetingly about contradictory research on autistic neural connectomes and swiftly cover 2 papers on strengths-based approaches to identifying and working with Autistic people. Resources and Citations Autistic Connectomes Summary at Embrace Autism Human Connectome Project Nick Walker forever  The essay in which the greatly admired Nick Walker says: 
“Ultimately, to describe autism as a disorder represents a value judgment rather than a scientific fact.” Strengths-based Autistic Identification Matt Lowry’s Reframing of the DSM Criteria Autistic Culture Podcast Woods SEO, Estes A. Toward a more comprehensive autism assessment: the survey of autistic strengths, skills, and interests. Front Psychiatry. 2023 Oct 6;14:1264516. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1264516. PMID: 37867767; PMCID: PMC10587489. YAFA...