12 Episodes

  1. Is it demand avoidance or PDA?

    Published: 1/13/2025
  2. Symptoms of dysfunction or signs of recovery?

    Published: 9/28/2024
  3. Recovering our children from school related trauma

    Published: 9/20/2024
  4. The liberation from the violence of shaming myself as a parent

    Published: 7/13/2024
  5. I've been okay all along

    Published: 5/18/2024
  6. When Declarative Language Activates The Nervous System

    Published: 5/3/2024
  7. To Honour or NOT To Honour (my child's request to return to school post-burnout)

    Published: 4/15/2024
  8. Is our current approach counterproductive, should we be more proactive?

    Published: 3/9/2024
  9. You are not alone

    Published: 2/1/2024
  10. Answering your questions: Dad's the one, and We are all different.

    Published: 1/21/2024
  11. Understanding Autistic communication as culture

    Published: 10/21/2022
  12. Exploring autistic behaviour with Kieran Rose

    Published: 8/11/2022

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As the host of a unique and impactful podcast, Kristy Forbes combines her professional experience as an educator with a special interest in Pathological Demand Avoidance with a personal touch. She brings an authentic voice to the dialogue on neurodivergence, drawing from her own experiences as an autistic adult, a parent to neurodivergent children, and a professional in the field. KF's mission (and dreaming) invites families and carers to imagine transcending conventional approaches in supporting their children and loved ones; invites professionals to dismantle traditional power imbalances & social hierarchies rooted in privilege and to disengage from power imbalances and engage in meaningful, community-level presence and deep listening. Most importantly, Kristy offers a reframe; an alternate perspective of what it truly means to be neurodivergent and how we both formulate and cultivate a positive sense of autistic identity and culture within a neuronormative society. Her passion stems from a commitment and drive to decolonise and dismantle the ways in which we hear one another and begin to rewrite what the textbooks say we are, as neurodivergent people and communities. With radical acceptance.