An Autistic Mother reflects on Mothering and Writing, with Julie Green
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What information is being shared about upcoming AEP Connections courses?
We have some exciting new information coming forth from AEP Connections, our partners. So if you are looking to learn more about executive function supports in a creative hands-on way, AEP Connections has a brand new course designed by Sarah Ward. And it's a spin on a make and take course that will occur over four sessions, providing feedback and answer questions that you come up with as you implement strategies in real time. They also have two dyslexia courses forthcoming, and that will be a live focus on assessment and co-occurring needs and share some of the best practices on how to support dyslexic students. Another course will be an on-demand course, where you will learn what you learned in the first course and dive into strategies.
There's also a course on PDA. which is also known as pathological demand avoidance, or as some people say, persistent demand for autonomy. Uh it's a follow-up on supporting PDAs using a declarative language approach. So that's a little bit about the lineup for the fall. Again, you can have more information on this at aepconnections.com. We also will include the link on the page for this episode. So please uh check into these great courses and also check into the continuing education credits you can get through so many organizations.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Barry Prezant, clinical scholar, researcher, and consultant on autism and neurodiversity, and a Brooklyn boy raised in the big city. And I'm Dave. I'm none
of those things, and I grew up on a farm in Illinois. But being on the spectrum myself, I have plenty of personal insight.
to lend. And this is Uniquely Human the Podcast, a show that illuminates and celebrates autism and neurodiversity.
Today on Uniquely Human the Podcast, uh Dave and I are thrilled to have an author who has a new book coming out, and that is Julie Green. Julie, welcome. Pleasure to have you on. Uh, and a little bit about you. Uh Julie is a writer based in Kingston, Ontario. Her son Carson was diagnosed with autism when he was three. But like so many women it took her a long time to realize that she might also be on the spectrum. She was finally identified at forty four. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, Globe and Mail, Parents, Today's Parent, and The Huffington Post. Julie has appeared on various shows and podcasts, including CTV, BBC Radio, Global News, and Sirius XM. She writes about her experience as an autistic mother, raising an autistic child on the substack letter The Autistic Mom.
She also is the author of Motherness, a memoir of generational autism, parenthood, and radical acceptance. So, as a late-diagnosed person, um what led you to consider that you might be autistic?
Oh w as I said it was a such a long haul. like ten years. It it really took me a very long time. For the penny to drop um In part because Going back not so long ago. Little to nothing was known about Autism generally, let alone how it presents differently in girls and females. So First the the learning curve was incredibly steep when my son was diagnosed. Um he was three and This was around, oh, was it 2011, 2012? So, you know, we had Rain Man, of course. And um There was even there was no you know, there there wasn't there was not really a lot of information out there and I read what I could and we tried to digest and learn really quickly. um to try to help him, but As I said, there was nothing really known about girls and women.
Um eventually Temple Grandin was on the scene and I was like, no, not like Temple Grandin. Um ev every now and then I'd have these moments with my son and I'd think there was this sort of synergy where like, oh
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What information is being shared about upcoming AEP Connections courses?
0:00–8:19
2
Why does the podcast include a disclaimer about medical advice?
8:19–18:48
3
How did Julie Green realize she might be autistic?
18:48–28:46
4
What role did an online autistic community play in Julie’s diagnosis?
28:46–39:56
5
How does Julie describe the shame associated with autism and motherhood?
39:56–51:27
6
What inspired Julie to write the memoir *Motherness* and how was it structured?
51:27–55:31
Speakers
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