Herding Cats by FDM
Herding Cats by FDM
Podcast Description
It's been 30 years since the Neurodiversity movement began, but our history? It’s scattered—spread across the internet, lost to defunct websites, and held in the memories of those who were there.
Join the Foundations for Divergent Minds board—Kassiane Asasumasu, Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu, Renae Martin, and Oswin Latimer—as they meander through the moments that shaped today’s Autistic community. Expect deep dives, infodumps, candid untold stories, and a heavy dose of chaos along the way.
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Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast centers on the neurodiversity movement, touching on themes such as historical context, cultural erasure, intersectionality, and evolving language within the community. Episodes feature discussions on essential topics like the 'Tone It Down Taupe' movement, youth perspectives on neurodiversity, and the need for sensory-friendly medical practices, all presented with humor and candid personal stories.
The Dialogues is a round-table podcast exploring Autistic history, advocacy, community, and the conversations shaping Autistic life today.
Featuring Foundations for Divergent Minds board members Kassiane Asasumasu, Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu, Renae Martin, and Oswin Latimer, the series brings together four longtime advocates and community members to reflect on where the Autistic community has been, how it has changed, and what those experiences can teach us about the present.
Drawing on decades of lived experience, activism, advocacy, and community-building, they explore everything from the early days of online Autistic spaces and grassroots organising to disability justice, identity, social media, representation, and the changing nature of Autistic advocacy.
Along the way, they revisit the people, organisations, arguments, and moments that helped shape the neurodiversity movement — including plenty of stories that risk being forgotten.
Informal, funny, thoughtful, and unapologetically neurodivergent, The Dialogues is a space for remembering the past, questioning the present, and preserving Autistic history through the people who lived it.
Whether you're Autistic yourself, part of the wider neurodivergent community, an advocate, ally, researcher, or simply interested in the history and culture of the Autistic community, The Dialogues offers conversations grounded in lived experience and decades of community knowledge.
Produced in collaboration with Foundations for Divergent Minds for the Autistic Culture Podcast Network.
🎧The Dialogues is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.
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In the first episode of The Dialogues, Kassiane Asasumasu, Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu, Renae Martin, and Oswin Latimer explore the history, politics, and lived realities of Autistic advocacy.
Drawing on decades of experience within the Autistic and disability communities, the group discusses the growing use of terms such as “profound autism”, the complicated relationship between diagnosis and support needs, and what happens when disabled people are denied the resources and autonomy they need to live in their communities.
They also reflect on the history of Autistic-led organising, the early online communities that helped shape the neurodiversity movement, and the personal cost that advocacy has sometimes carried for the people doing the work.
Along the way, the conversation explores institutionalisation, disability rights, Medicaid and community-based support, the loss of Autistic community history, and why many of the battles being fought today feel remarkably familiar to those who have been fighting them for decades.
The Dialogues is produced in collaboration with Foundations for Divergent Minds for the Autistic Culture Podcast Network.
🎧The Dialogues is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.
🌈 Celebrate autistic voices with early access, ad-free listening, and our full archive at AutisticCulturePlus.com
🌐 Visit www.autisticculturepodcastnetwork.com
📲 Follow us on Instagram: @autisticculturepodcast
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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