Educating Future Autistic Leadership
episode
Today’s Autistic Moment: A Podcast for Autistic Adults by An Autistic Adult
1h 6m
4 speakers
8 chapters
transcribed 24 days ago
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What is Jenna Olson’s background and why is she featured on Today’s Autistic Moment?
General Olson is a graduate from Minnesota Independence College and Community. Jenna is here to tell us about her autistic journey. Jenna will share what life was like before she began attending Minnesota Independence College and Community, and how MICC helped her to become more independent, to be an autistic leader in her daily work and life. When young autistic people can be who they are and educated to be leaders in autism acceptance, They changed the rules in a time when we never needed more courageous autistics to show us a path to a better tomorrow than we do now. Welcome to the episode Educating Future Autistic Leadership on today's Autistic Moment.
Take a breath, take a breath. Open up your eyes. Brand new day, brand new day. What son uh
Every time you feel you doubt in yourself. Look inside, you'll find you got what it takes, yeah. I can tell her You can make it tie Here's your chances take it No answer there, let's stop You care what it takes, yeah you'll find a way There's nothing left Today is
your day. Hold my hand, hold my hand. You know that you're mine. Together just as forever. So let yourself shine. Every time you feel you're down on yourself. Look inside
to find your guy what it takes, yeah I can tell. You can make it time. Here's your chance to take it. No once the matter, let's stop. You come what it takes. Yeah, you'll find a way. There's nothing left to say Today is your day.
Today is your day on Today's Autistic Moment, a podcast for autistic adults by an autistic adult. Where autistic adults get to be yourselves in a space that is safe and made especially for you. While listening to this podcast, you stim and fidget all you like. This first segment of today's Autistic Moment is sponsored by the Autism Society of Minnesota, known as Awesome throughout Minnesota's Autism Community. As Minnesota's first autism resource for more than fifty years, Awesome serves the whole state, the whole spectrum for the whole life. Visit awesome at AUSM. org. Before I begin, I want to give some basic information about today's autistic moment to help all listeners find our many resources. Please visit today's autisticmoment dot com where you can listen to the podcast, get transcripts, program updates, and read the guest BIOS pages.
You can also visit the Adult Autism Resources links page. Please visit the future shows page to read the titles, guests, and descriptions of all the shows coming up. The transcripts are sponsored by Minnesota Independence College and Community. There is a link provided to get access to a document form of the transcript. Without the purple colored background so that you can print it without using up the ink on your printer. The written document has a font that is accessible for dyslexics. There are additional transcripts available in Spanish, German, French, and Chinese simplified. Please follow today's autistic moment on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Blue Sky. Join today's Autistic Moment community group page on Facebook for conversations and updates.
Please subscribe to the YouTube channel at today's autistic moment to watch any episode of Autistic Voices Roundtable Discussions. In celebration of Autism Acceptance Month, James Erickson, whom I have known for a long time now, has given me permission to use a poem he wrote Entitled In the Silence of Self Acceptance I once moved through a world that spun too fast. A quiet hum inside. Never quite in tune with the noise outside. Thoughts twisted, tangled words felt foreign, like hands reaching but never quite grasping.
How did Jenna first discover Minnesota Independence College & Community (MICC) and what attracted her to it?
Yet in the stillness I began to hear my own rhythm. not shaped by expectations, but an unwavering truth. My mind, a landscape rich with With colours unseen, not broken, not needing to fit, but whole in its own way. I've learned that my rhythm needs not match the worlds but The pauses between my words are spaces. Where meaningful breaths and silence never still becomes a quiet breath before something deeper stirs. Acceptance isn't about reshaping the world. It's about allowing myself to exist without apology.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Jenna Olson’s background and why is she featured on Today’s Autistic Moment?
0:01–6:45
2
How did Jenna first discover Minnesota Independence College & Community (MICC) and what attracted her to it?
6:45–14:02
3
What was life like for Jenna before attending MICC and how did her early school experiences shape her?
14:02–18:35
4
How did MICC’s programs (like the Summit class and transportation training) help Jenna become more independent?
18:35–24:00
5
In what ways did Jenna’s role as a camp counselor develop her leadership skills?
24:00–33:59
6
What does interdependence mean to Jenna and how did MICC teach her this concept?
33:59–39:54
7
How has MICC prepared Jenna for her career as a pharmacy technician and what does she enjoy about her work?
39:54–45:29
8
What is Jenna most thankful for about her time at MICC and what final advice does she share for future autistic leaders?
45:29–1:06:04