Mark chats to the inspirational Kieran Rose. As well as being autistic/ADHD himself, Kieran has three autistic/ADHD children (11, 14 and 15) as well as an autistic wife.

Kieran is an author, academic, trainer, consultant and all round font of knowledge on autism, so this episode contains some fascinating insights into the different communication styles between neurodivergents and neurotypicals when having a conversation.

As well as topics such as situational mutism, hyperverbalism and monotropism, Mark and Kieran swap tales about the fact they're never able to finish a conversation without being interrupted and discuss the perils of group conversation and their very different takes on the ridiculous neurotypical habit of engaging in small talk.

 

LINKS TO STUFF WE MENTION IN THIS EPISODE:

Neurodive Podcast - https://soundcloud.com/neurodivepod/kieranrose

Kieran's website - https://theautisticadvocate.com/

Maori word for autism - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-40493398

 

KIERAN'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER READING:

A short (and very inexhaustive) list of Autistic advocates and allies no longer with us, who have made a phenomenally constructive difference to the narratives around Autistic and Neurodivergent people, but who never get the recognition of lauded non-Autistic people:
 
Jim Sinclair
Don't mourn for us - Jim Sinclair wrote one of the pivotal texts in the reframing of Autistic experience (opens as a PDF):
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://philosophy.ucsc.edu/SinclairDontMournForUs.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwik86zq-smIAxWCWUEAHQ2NH5UQFnoECCQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3WfDEINrbr2olYTgiO6ZKl
A book about Jim:
https://amzn.eu/d/3qalj4l
 
Donna Williams
Conceptualised a model of advocacy based on an inside-out approach - that observation based on your own or a normative experience can only take you so far.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Williams
She produced a massive number of books:
https://uk.jkp.com/collections/author-donna-williams-pid-199891
 
Mel Baggs:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Baggs
An old (quality is indicative of its age, so please bear with it) video on two parts that off a deep challenge to normative assumptions around communication and experience:
https://youtu.be/JnylM1hI2jc?si=IaPhwkiYn1vRmmlp
 
Dinah Murray
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah_Murray
Co-creator of the theory of monotropism:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362361305051398
A basic introduction:
https://youtu.be/qUFDAevkd3E?si=SMiSDEoiNcDtV2eg
 
Steve Silberman
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Silberman
The author of Neurotribes, a game changing book that brought a model of different, not less into the mainstream:
https://amzn.eu/d/clw0AD8

 

 

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