Ep. 38: Busting 5 Common Autism Myths
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What is the purpose of this episode and who are the hosts?
What's up everyone and welcome to Making the Shift.
We're an SLP couple from California with three boys and a passion for finding better ways to support autistic kids.
I'm Chris. You might know me as speech dude. I'm a Neurodivergent High School SLP and the creator of the Dynamic Assessment of Social Emotional Learning, and I specialize in crafting neurodiversity affirming IEPs through my online course.
And I'm Jesse, a sensory integration trained SLP, owner of a top-rated clinic in Los Angeles, and the creator of the Inside Out Sensory Communication Programs for Parents and Therapists. Join us weekly to learn neurodiversity affirming ways to support social, emotional development and regulation in autistic kids.
Are you ready to make the shift? Hello everybody and welcome to Making the Shift. This week's episode is Mythbusters. Thanks for tuning in live on Channel 7 here with your hostess with the most is speech, dude, aka Chris Winger. And
His better hat. I was gonna say with that intro, it almost sounds like you're doing like crime busters. Is that a show?
This is crime busters.
Like
we're gonna break down all the crimes that Jesse Ginsburg has done this past year.
Anyway, as Chris said, today we are doing myth busting. So specifically autism myths. And this is something that it's funny that we even feel we have to talk about. But I just feel like the more like we post on social media and we hear from people or people are hearing from us the first time, we get so many of these questions and people really still just don't know.
Well, here's the other thing too. Even if it's content that you might already know, you're gonna hear it in a new way. The other thing is, is you might be able to say, Hey, you know what? I heard an episode that had that discussion. Go check out Making the Shift with Jesse and Chris because they um talked about that. They shared some information and resources. And so I do think that the more we can talk about things and the more we can spread awareness, um, the the better off. We are.
Absolutely. And sometimes I honestly forget that. People don't live this life of they eat, sleep and breathe like we do. this content. With you. You know, it's such a part of our day-to-day life. I
do sometimes think that you're right. Like we do spend the majority of our days reading books, listening to podcasts, um talking to autistic adults and other people and just really diving into it. So it's kind of nice to gather all that information and be able to send it from our mouths through the microphone onto the airwaves.
So we're gonna go through five common myths about autism. So number one.
First one. There's a cure for autism. That, my friends, is a myth. There autism can't be cured. It's something that is and it shouldn't be cured, by the way. Autism is a neurotype. Right?
Yeah, and I think the bigger issue with that myth is the framing of it, right? Because when we use the word cured, that implies that, oh, this is some sick medical condition that needs to be corrected. So even the word cured is a hurtful word to use.
Right. It actually sets off the idea to other individuals like, hey, you know what? They're you need to be cured. You need to be fixed. You're broken. And that is harmful in all sorts of ways. If you really think about that.
Yeah, definitely. So that's why we don't even use that phrase when talking about autism. If you hear people talking about it in that way, that would be a great time to chime in and say, you know what, we actually don't say that, first of all. And autism is a neurotype. It is a brain type. So that is why it is not something that um can should be changed.
Right. Now um You know, there might be some challenges, right? There might be different types of situations where there might be more anxiety or there might be more challenges with sensory um needs. And non-autistic people also experience challenges as well. So uh it's not to discredit to say, hey, look, it's a different neurotype and we shouldn't be helping anybody. That's not what we're saying. We're just saying, hey.
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