I’m honored to be featured in When Autistic Kids Grow Up, a 5-part podcast series by Brady Huggett for The Transmitter.
Part one shares my early life story, and one of the things I love most about it is hearing my father talk about homesteading in Alaska before and just after I was born. This chapter explores my family’s humble beginnings and my difficult childhood as an undiagnosed autistic child in an undiagnosed autistic family navigating severe socioeconomic and interpersonal challenges.
The full series centers on my research paper, Mind the NIH Funding Gap: Structural discrimination in physical health-related research for cognitively able autistic adults.
I’m grateful for the chance to tell this story and to help bring attention to the inequities autistic adults continue to face in research and healthcare. Click the title below to listen!