Author, attorney, and self-advocate Haley Moss explains autistic joy, and how to be supportive of it.
Haley Moss was diagnosed with autism at age 3. She graduated with her Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law in 2018, and graduated from the University of Florida in 2015 with Bachelors degrees in Psychology and Criminology. She is a renowned visual pop artist and the author of Middle School: The Stuff Nobody Tells You About and A Freshman Survival Guide for College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Stuff Nobody Tells You About. She also was the illustrator and a contributor for the Autism Women’s Network anthology What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew. Her writing has been featured in HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Elite Daily, The Mighty, and other websites and publications.
For more about Haley’s work: https://haleymoss.com/
For Haley’s show Spectrumly Speaking: https://differentbrains.org/spectrumly-speaking-page/
Here is an example of the emotion wheel Haley mentions: https://feelingswheel.com/
For more about host Dr. Jennie Trocchio: https://www.drjennie.co/
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Author, attorney, and self-advocate Haley Moss explains autistic joy, and how to be supportive of it.
Haley Moss was diagnosed with autism at age 3. She graduated with her Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law in 2018, and graduated from the University of Florida in 2015 with Bachelors degrees in Psychology and Criminology. She is a renowned visual pop artist and the author of Middle School: The Stuff Nobody Tells You About and A Freshman Survival Guide for College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Stuff Nobody Tells You About. She also was the illustrator and a contributor for the Autism Women’s Network anthology What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew. Her writing has been featured in HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Elite Daily, The Mighty, and other websites and publications.
For more about Haley’s work: https://haleymoss.com/
For Haley’s show Spectrumly Speaking: https://differentbrains.org/spectrumly-speaking-page/
Here is an example of the emotion wheel Haley mentions: https://feelingswheel.com/
For more about host Dr. Jennie Trocchio: https://www.drjennie.co/
Follow Different Brains on social media:
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Autism & Self-Acceptance, with Sam Farmer | EDB 327
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Autism & Self-Acceptance, with Sam Farmer | EDB 327
Autism self-advocate, author, and speaker Sam Farmer discusses replacing internalized ableism with self-acceptance.
Sam Farmer is an information technology consultant, neurodiversity community self-advocate, writer, author and public speaker. Identified later in life as autistic, he writes articles, records podcasts and presents at libraries, conferences and for corporations and autism community organizations, sharing stories of lived experiences and his opinions on a variety of topics of relevance to the neurodiversity and disability communities. A Long Walk Down a Winding Road - Small Steps, Challenges, & Triumphs Through an Autistic Lens is his first book. Hei is also Lead Self-Advocate at Floreo, which uses virtual reality to teach social, communication, behavioral, and life skills to neurodiverse individuals and others who can benefit from practicing these skills.
For more about Sam’s work and his new book: https://www.samfarmerauthor.com/
For more about Floreo: https://floreovr.com/
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Exploring Different Brains
Author, attorney, and self-advocate Haley Moss explains autistic joy, and how to be supportive of it.
Haley Moss was diagnosed with autism at age 3. She graduated with her Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law in 2018, and graduated from the University of Florida in 2015 with Bachelors degrees in Psychology and Criminology. She is a renowned visual pop artist and the author of Middle School: The Stuff Nobody Tells You About and A Freshman Survival Guide for College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Stuff Nobody Tells You About. She also was the illustrator and a contributor for the Autism Women’s Network anthology What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew. Her writing has been featured in HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Elite Daily, The Mighty, and other websites and publications.
For more about Haley’s work: https://haleymoss.com/
For Haley’s show Spectrumly Speaking: https://differentbrains.org/spectrumly-speaking-page/
Here is an example of the emotion wheel Haley mentions: https://feelingswheel.com/
For more about host Dr. Jennie Trocchio: https://www.drjennie.co/
Follow Different Brains on social media:
https://twitter.com/diffbrains
https://www.facebook.com/different.brains/
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Check out more episodes of Exploring Different Brains!
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