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Clinical psychologist, PhD student and AuDHDer, Aaron Howearth chats about Autism, ADHD and their combination in humans, framed within their lived experience, their work in clinical psychology, and the neurodiversity-affirming paradigm.
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The AuDHD Psych Podcast is part of a longer-term plan to fund and undertake independent research into early intervention programs for neurodivergent children.
Our goal is to eliminate the experience of deficit and disorder by helping neurodivergent children grow to be adults understand their own characteristics simply as differences and choose “good-fit” environments that align with their goals.
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Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ Episode 34: AuDHD (& Human) Experience — Self-Concept & It's Influence on Autistic, AuDHD & ADHD Experience "Am I actually broken? Or do I just have these lessons that I've learnt that have informed my understanding of myself?" Summary: This week Aaron unpacks self-concept: what it is, how we develop it as neurodivergent people, and how we can deliberately change it to improve our emotional experience. Building on the working model of emotions from the previous...
Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ Episode 33: AuDHD Experience — Disclosure and Self-Advocacy "Disclose where it serves you, and only where you feel safe doing so. People are not entitled to our information." Summary: Should I tell people I'm neurodivergent, and how do I advocate for what I need? This week Aaron reframes disclosure as something almost everyone gets wrong: it isn't a one-off announcement but a repeated, context-specific process that happens across settings and across a lifetime. Borrowing t...
Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ Episode 31: AuDHD Experience — A Working Model of Emotions "Emotions are our integrated experience of our body's response to our understanding of ourselves in our context." Summary: This week Aaron shares a working model for understanding emotions, developed with alexithymia and interoceptive differences in the neurodivergent community in mind. He defines emotion as combining cognitive appraisal (our understanding of self and context) with the body's physiological response...
Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ Episode 31: Neurodivergent Experience - Male/Female Vs Internalising/Externalising Presentations & Late Diagnosis "When we talk about male and female presentations, we're really talking about internalising and externalising presentations." Summary: In this episode of The AuDHD Psych Podcast, clinical psychologist and AuDHDer Aaron Howearth asks why more boys and men are diagnosed with autism and ADHD than girls and women. He argues that what we call male and female pre...
Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ Episode 30: AuDHD Experience - Autistic Burnout & Recovery "Downtime is a necessity, not a nice to have." Summary: In this episode of The AuDHD Psych Podcast, clinical psychologist and AuDHDer Aaron Howearth takes on two questions: what is autistic or neurodivergent burnout, and what can we actually do to protect ourselves from it? He begins by being clear about where the evidence sits. Autistic burnout has been described within community since around 2008 but only rea...
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