This episode is the memorial service for John Knoblock. Kathy is extremely grateful for the opportunity to serve and support the Aspieland community. Thank you for your patronage and support of Aspieland. This podcast was very important to John. One important way to honor John's legacy is for you to continue to grow in your understanding of others, grow in compassion, acceptance, and love for others. 

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This subject is one those that impacts the relationship dynamic in almost every encounter.  We felt this was important enough to review and then talk about how this effects the Neurodiverse relationship. 

"Masking" is one of the many ways that those of us on the Spectrum hide ourselves from others.  We try to hide our autistic tendencies so that people in the Neurotypical world see us as one of them.  It's a method of acceptance we have been doing most of our lives with varying degrees of success.

Todays visit we talk about how masking manifests itself and how to handle different scenarios where masking becomes part of things.  We also visit some troublesome ideas and some ways to stop masking and just be ourselves in a relationship close to someone else.

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My wife and I found that this subject is one those that impacts the relationship dynamic in almost every encounter.  We felt this was important enough to review and then talk about how this effects the Neurodiverse relationship. 

"Masking" is one of the many ways that those of us on the Spectrum hide ourselves from others.  We try to hide our autistic tendencies so that people in the Neurotypical world see us as one of them.  It's a method of acceptance we have been doing most of our lives with varying degrees of success.

Todays visit we talk about how masking manifests itself.  We also visit some troublesome ideas and some ways to stop masking and just be ourselves.

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In the Neuro-Diverse relationship, sudden changes and hard impacts can really test yourself and your relationship.
This podcast is the final part of the three part series.  As we finish exploring all the ways a sudden impact in your life,  just such an impact was delivered to my wife and I in the for of a cancer diagnosis.
But it wasn't just the diagnosis that made the sudden impacts so hard on either the  person on the spectrum, or on the Neuro-typical partner.  It was the way the scenario played out, the ER, the surgery, the constant overload of doctors, nurses and a whole host of physical, sensory and emotional traumas in between.

CONTENT WARNING:  This episode deals with serious medical conditions and cancer.  If this is a subject that is particularly painful for you, please skip this podcast.

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In the Neuro-Diverse relationship, sudden changes and hard impacts can really test yourself and your relationship.
This podcast is the second in a three part series which explores all the ways a sudden impact in your life,  just such an impact was delivered to my wife and I in the for of a cancer diagnosis.
But it wasn't just the diagnosis that made the sudden impacts so hard on either the  person on the spectrum, or on the Neuro-typical partner.  It was the way the scenario played out, the ER, the surgery, the constant overload of doctors, nurses and a whole host of physical, sensory and emotional traumas in between.

CONTENT WARNING:  This episode deals with serious medical conditions and cancer.  If this is a subject that is particularly painful for you, please skip this podcast.

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Ever have a sudden experience that changed your life?  In the Neuro-Diverse relationship, sudden changes and hard impacts can really test yourself and your relationship.

After just such an impact was delivered to my wife and I in the for of a cancer diagnosis.  But it wasn't just the diagnosis that made the sudden impacts so hard on the person on the spectrum, or on the Neuro-typical partner.  It was the way the scenario played out, the ER, the surgery, the constant overload of doctors, nurses and a whole host of physical, sensory and emotional traumas in between.

CONTENT WARNING:  This episode deals with serious medical conditions and cancer.  If this is a subject that is particularly painful for you, please skip this podcast.

 

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"Masking" is one of the many ways that those of us on the Spectrum hide ourselves from others.  We try to hide our autistic tendencies so that people in the Neurotypical world see us as one of them.  It's a method of acceptance we have been doing most of our lives with varying degrees of success.

Todays visit we talk about how masking manifests itself.  We also visit some troublesome ideas and some ways to stop masking and just be ourselves.

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Through the years, there have been many attempts at finding proper therapeutic methods for "curing" Autism and ASD.  Those of you who are older may recall the advertising campaigns launched as a result of higher incidents of Autism diagnosis that were rendered in the late 1960's and well into the '70's.  The idea was to "eradicate this awful disease" as was so commonly referred to during this era.

Our culture was then predominated by the authoritarian modal (remember the common practice of paddling children in school?)  During this time individuals and organizations were hounding the US government to use ABA as a common approach to "curing" Autism.  As we all know now, Autism is not something that can be cured simply because it is not a disease nor a mental illness. 

However, ABA continues to be a controversial model for ASD therapy.  With so many opinions and even fewer facts, we decided to explore this kind of therapy in this podcast. It should be noted here that this podcast runs a bit longer than normal (25 minutes).

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