Matthew Lawrence

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Today’s Autistic Moment: A Podcast for Autistic Adults by An Autistic Adult · The Autistic Jewish Experience · 8 Dec 2024 podcast

A big thing for me

Right.

So and this is going to be relatable not just to only other Jewish people here, but actually I think most autistic people who have who live in communities where family is a very central thing and communal kind of activities, which is obviously not only Jewish people, right?

I think that's probably most

communities.

And as autistic people we often at the the margins of those communities.

Right?

And we're not fully included, whether that's a religious community, a cultural community, uh a town, a sports club, right?

It doesn't actually matter that

You know, you mentioned like the sensory thing, that that was the first thing that kind of like popped up for me, right?

Like so like in Jewish communities we you know, we live in pretty close knit families and we have big extended families, and we get together a few times a year for big holidays that involve a lot of liturgy and a lot of special foods and a lot of

Loud voices and different textures and not being able to eat certain things.

So there's a lot of a lot of sensory stuff for that.

And there's a lot of guilt from when we don't wanna we aren't able to participate in the same way, right?

So I think everyone can relate to the the big family dinner.

So you know, we're recording this right before Thanksgiving.

So a lot of your listeners in the US can relate to that from all faith backgrounds.

Um but that big family

dinner where you wanna be with your family, you wanna see people, but you know, there's the stuffiness of the room because of all the cooking, there's all the people speaking, there's multiple conversations.

It's extremely overstimulating.

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