Episode #039 - Sia's' "Autism" and What Does "Autism" Mean Anyway? A Double-Header

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Autism Confidential

Autism Confidential Podcast

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Autism Confidential shines a light on the hottest issues in the world of autism, including topics often shunned by conventional media. Who cares for autistic adults after their parents die? How can we fix our broken care system? What interventions help, or hurt? Join hosts Jill Escher, Amy Lutz and others from the National Council on Severe Autism as they take on the hardest questions of autism with leading thinkers and doers.

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Episode #039 - Sia's' "Autism" and What Does "Autism" Mean Anyway? A Double-Header

Autism Confidential

55 minutes 28 seconds

2 years ago

Episode #039 - Sia's' "Autism" and What Does "Autism" Mean Anyway? A Double-Header

For almost all of its history autism was considered a "pervasive developmental disorder." It involved serious deviations from normal development, serious impairments in communication, social relatedness and behavior. Academic papers often had a simple shorthand for autism: "devastating." But today, if you're quirky and anxious but otherwise completely normal, poof! you too can have "autism." In this double-header episode, Jill Escher comments on reports that the singer has autism, followed by an earlier recorded discussion with Dr. Lee Wachtel and Dr. Carmen Lopez-Arvizu about the highly diluted and trivialized term autism.Dr. Wachtel is the Clinical Director of the Neurobehavioral Unit at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Lopez-Arvizu is the Medical Director of the Psychiatric Medical Health Program at KKI.

Links:

Jill Escher: The Sia Shaming Spectacle Is a Tragedy for the Arts and the Autism Community https://www.ncsautism.org/blog//sia-shaming

Jill Escher: Stop Hating on Maddie Ziegler: She Was Magnificent in Sia’s “Music”https://www.ncsautism.org/blog//stop-hating-on-maddie-ziegler-she-was-magnificent-in-sias-music

Lee Wachtel: In Defense of Profound Autismhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=284K2by1FO4