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This Week in Autistic Culture

This Week in Autistic Culture

Written by: Autistic Culture Podcast Network
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This Week in Autistic Culture is your weekly guide to the stories, conversations and ideas shaping Autistic culture.


Every week, Dr Angela Kingdon and Simon Scott bring together the week's Autistic and neurodivergent news, media, and culture — exploring the stories making headlines, challenging the narratives surrounding autism and neurodivergence, and celebrating the people creating culture of their own.


Alongside the big stories, you’ll discover new podcasts and conversations from across the Autistic Culture Podcast Network, plus books, events, projects and opportunities from the wider Autistic community.


Informative, curious and proudly Autistic, This Week in Autistic Culture is a place to catch up, discover something new and stay connected to what’s happening across Autistic culture each week.


🌈 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


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Episodes
  • The Neurodiversity Language Debate | Is Dune Autistic Culture?

    The Neurodiversity Language Debate | Is Dune Autistic Culture?
    Oct 11 2026

    This week, Angela and Simon dive into a growing debate about neurodiversity language. Are terms like neurodivergent, neurodiverse and Autistic becoming blurred together — and does that matter? Responding to new research questioning how broadly neurodiversity terminology is used, they explore why umbrella terms can be incredibly useful, where specificity still matters, and what we lose when very different neurotypes and experiences are treated as interchangeable.


    For our second excavation into the Autistic Culture Archive, Simon is taking Angela to Arrakis. Using the Ten Pillars of Autistic Culture as their guide, they dig into Frank Herbert’s Dune, uncovering extraordinary world-building, systems within systems, pattern-matching, passionate superfanning and a fictional universe that rewards you for wanting to know absolutely everything about it. By the end, there’s only one question left: is Dune Autistic culture?


    And if our trip to Arrakis leaves you wanting to dig even deeper, you can explore the full Dune Field Report in the Autistic Culture Archive, where Simon brings together the research, evidence, rabbit holes and connections to the Ten Pillars that couldn’t fit into the show — and, as always, you can add your own field notes, because the archive is never finished!


    As always, we’ll take you through everything coming up across the Autistic Culture Podcast Network this week!


    🌐 Subscribe to our newsletter and read our Autistic Culture Archive Field Reports: www.autisticculturepodcast.com

    🎧 Listen: This Week in Autistic Culture is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and all major podcast platforms.

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Rocky Horror, Autistic Relationships and Finding Your People

    Rocky Horror, Autistic Relationships and Finding Your People
    Oct 4 2026

    This week, Angela and Simon dive into new research about Autistic traits and romantic relationships — and find themselves questioning some of the assumptions behind it.


    From attachment styles and relationship maintenance to masking, regulation and the need for connection, they explore what happens when Autistic experiences are measured against expectations that may not have been designed with Autistic people in mind.


    It’s time to open the vaults for our brand-new segment: The Autistic Culture Archive!


    Each week, Angela and Simon will become cultural archaeologists, excavating a film, book, musician, fandom, hobby or cultural figure and using the Ten Pillars of Autistic Culture to uncover the Autistic fingerprints hiding in plain sight.


    First into the archive is The Rocky Horror Picture Show


    And if our first excavation leaves you wanting to dig deeper, every entry in the Autistic Culture Archive will have its own Field Report, bringing together the research, evidence, rabbit holes and connections we couldn’t squeeze into the show — and inviting you to add your own field notes to an archive that is never truly finished


    As always, we’ll take you through everything coming up across the Autistic Culture Podcast Network this week!


    Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror:


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    🌐 Subscribe to our newsletter and read our Autistic Culture Archive Field Reports: www.autisticculturepodcast.com

    🎧 Listen: This Week in Autistic Culture is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and all major podcast platforms.

    🌈 Become a Culture Builder: Get early access, ad-free listening and our full podcast archive at AutisticCulturePlus

    📲 Follow us on Instagram: @autisticculturepodcast

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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Autism Is Genetic, ADHD Diagnosis and Who Gets Support?

    Autism Is Genetic, ADHD Diagnosis and Who Gets Support?
    Sep 28 2026
    Welcome to another edition of This Week in Autistic Culture, our magazine podcast that brings together the stories, conversations and ideas shaping Autistic culture each week.This week, Simon is back from holiday and joins Angela to unpack new guidance from the National Autistic Society stating that autism is genetic and lifelong. They discuss why that message matters, the misinformation that still surrounds the causes of autism, and why something seemingly so straightforward can still provoke disagreement.They also turn to controversial proposals for tackling England’s huge ADHD assessment backlog, asking what happens when access to diagnosis and support is increasingly reserved for those deemed to have the greatest clinical need.There’s also big news from ACPN as Angela and Simon reveal the first trailer for Season Four of The Autistic Culture Podcast, with Simon joining Angela as co-host when the show returns in October.As always, we’ll take you through everything coming up across the Autistic Culture Podcast Network this week, before heading to the Community Notice Board for books, research, events and opportunities from across the wider Autistic community.📌 Community NoticeboardThe Community Noticeboard is your space to share what’s happening across autistic culture. Whether you’re launching a book, hosting an event, releasing a podcast, starting a creative project, celebrating a milestone, or have something you’d like the community to know about, we’d love to hear from you.Send your announcements, links and updates to autisticculturepodcast@gmail.com, and we’ll feature as many as we can in a future edition of This Week in Autistic Culture.This Week’s Topics:The National Autistic Society finally says Autism is GeneticADHD symptoms should not lead to automatic diagnosis, says reviewPlan to limit NHS diagnoses of ADHD attacked as ‘rationing’ healthcareKennedy names new chair for US autism advisory panelBooks and Research:Overcoming the Wall of Awful: Why It’s Hard to Get Things Done with ADHD, Autism, and Anxiety (and how to do them anyway)“A Delightful Embodiment of Dichotomies”: A Qualitative Exploration of Self-Concept and Identity Among Autistic and Non-Autistic People🎧 This Week in Autistic Culture 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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    1 hr and 3 mins
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