Interview: The Squarepeg Podcast
I am so incredibly honoured to have been invited onto one of the most valuable Autism podcasts out there: Squarepeg. I have found Amy and the people she invites to share their stories endlessly inspiring and comforting over the years and I’m so delighted to be able to add my voice to the mix.
Here’s the episode description:
128. Art and autism math: healing and connecting after a late autism diagnosis
Elinor Trier describes herself as a “Sparkly Champion of Neurodivergent and Queer Joy”. She’s a neuroqueer AuDHD artist, writer, podcaster, YouTuber, and founder of Elinor Trier Studio, where she creates artwork that reminds us that we’re not the ‘odd one out’, we’re ‘one of a kind’.
Elinor says, “It wasn’t until I became a certified weirdo by getting an official autism diagnosis in my mid-thirties that my life started to actually make sense.”
In this conversation we talk about the power of art to heal and connect us, the relationship between her art and her autism journey, and how she has changed her working life since becoming conscious of her autism.
Squarepeg is a podcast in which I talk to other late identified autistic women and nonbinary people about their lives, their autism journeys, and what they’ve learned along the way.
I’m Amy Richards, and I was diagnosed autistic in 2016, when I was 37. I’ve been sharing my conversations with other autistic adults since 2020.
I hope you’ll find these conversations inspiring and thought provoking, and that they’ll help you feel more connected to a worldwide community of people with similar experiences.
You can listen to the episode below, or find it wherever you get your podcasts:
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