Neuro Rainbow Cast with Autisticly Aar is a podcast dedicated to amplifying the voices of the neurodivergent and disabled communities.Hosted by Aar Jae/Eira-Auri Williams, the show provides a platform for individuals to share their lived experiences in an honest and truthful manner. Where we hope to learn and discover more about neurodivergent conditions under its rainbow from ADHD to autism, dyspraxia to dyslexia and other neurodivergent conditions. By unmasking societal constructs and chal ...
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DisElectAbility: Deep Diving Into Transphobia in the United Kingdom with Ashleigh Talbot from What The Trans?!
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1:03:01Synopsis In this powerful episode of DisElectAbility, host Aar Jae Williams is joined by Ashleigh Talbot, co-founder of the independent trans news podcast What The Trans?!. Together, they explore the current political, social, and media landscape affecting the UK’s trans and disabled communities. The conversation spans the deeply controversial Supr…
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DisElectAbility: Assessing Access To Employmen For Autistic People And More With Sir Robert Buckland KC
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1:00:37Economic and Policy Impacts on Disabled People: A Conversation with Robert Buckland In this episode of DisElectAbility, the Disability Politics Podcast, host Aar Jae/Eira-Auri Williams engages in a detailed discussion with Robert Buckland, former MP and cabinet minister, focusing on disability and autism policies in the UK. They explore the economi…
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Pacifying on NRCWAA: Deep Diving Into Disassociative Identity Disorder (DID
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51:34Exploring Dissociative Identity Disorder and Little Space with Raz In this episode, the host Eira Auri (Autisticly Aar) discusses the intricate and often misunderstood mental health condition Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) previously recognsied as multiple personality disorder with guest Raz, known as Little Alt Space on Instagram. Raz shares…
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A Deep Dive Into The World of Neurodivergent Representation on Reality TV with Dan Bird
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50:47Exploring Neurodivergence and Reality TV with Dan Bird from The Traitors UK In this episode of the 'New Rainbow Cast' podcast, host Aar Jae Williams interviews Dan Bird, a contestant from Season 3 of The Traitors UK. Dan, who is autistic, shares his experiences on the reality game show, discussing the intersections of neurodivergence, identity, and…
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#DisElectAbility: 'I Heart Politics' Deep Dive Into Political Fandom Culture with Dr P CS Andrews
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2:01:33The Intersection of Politics and Fandom: An Interview with Dr. Phoenix CS Andrews In this episode of Diselectability, Aar Jae Williams (Eira-Auri) interviews Dr. Phoenix CS Andrews, author of 'I Heart Politics,' which explores the theory of political fandom culture and its impacts in the age of mass-market popular culture. Dr. Andrews, who is disab…
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Lydia Powell: ADHD and Sobriety: Finding Strength in Vulnerability and Self Discovery
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1:31:36Overcoming Challenges: Lydia's Journey with ADHD, Masking, and Sobriety Join us as Lydia, also known as @theconfidentwoman on TikTok, revisits her journey with ADHD and sobriety. Diagnosed with ADHD in May 2021, Lydia reflects on her identity crisis following a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder and shares insights into her path towards self-acceptan…
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Autistically Funny: Jain Edwards Is Autistic And Hilarious
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57:54Jane Edwards: Embracing Autism and Comedy In this episode, comedian, writer, and actor Jane Edwards from Wales shares her journey of being diagnosed with autism during the pandemic. Jane recounts her childhood experiences, the challenges she faced, and the relief and revelation upon her diagnosis. She also delves into her comedic career, discussing…
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Charis Gambon: Fencing Through Neurodiversity
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1:00:41Neuro Rainbow Cast: Understanding Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, and Autism with Charis Gambon In this episode of the Neuro Rainbow Cast, host [Host Name] interviews Charis Gambon about her experiences with dyspraxia, dyslexia, and autism. Charis shares her journey from late diagnosis to advocacy, discussing her involvement in sports like fencing and histori…
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"Inside 'Funny Autism Mama': The Josephine Lacey Interview
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48:08Exploring Parenting of a autistic son and comedy with Josephine Lacey In this episode of Neuro Rainbow Cast, host Aar Williams interviews stand-up comedian Josephine Lacey, who is currently performing at the Edinburgh Fringe. They discuss Josephine's journey into comedy, which began as a hobby in 2009, and how her experiences as an autistic mother …
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Toward an Inclusive Future: Insights from Alice Hewson, Author of 'Neurodiversity in the Workplace'
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1:09:13Neuro Rainbow Cast with Alice Hewson: ADHD, Dyspraxia, and Neurodiversity in the Workplace In this episode of the Neuro Rainbow Cast, Autisticly Aar interviews Alice Hewson, a writer from the northeast with dyspraxia and ADHD, about her neurodivergent journey and her new book, 'Neurodiversity in the Workplace.' Alice shares her experiences growing …
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Rainbow Reads Book Club: A Deep Dive into 'Young, Autistic and ADHD' with the author Sarah Boon
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1:01:50Exploring Neurodivergence and Self-Discovery with Author Sarah Boon In this episode of Neuro Rainbow Cast, host Autisticly Aar is joined by Sarah Boon for a second enlightening discussion. Sarah, an author on autism and ADHD, shares her journey of late diagnoses and the personal growth that followed. Initially diagnosed as dyslexic, she later disco…
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Empowering Youth Voices: An Interview with Troy Njenje-Mbanga
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41:40Empowering Youth Voices: An Interview with Troy Njenje-Mbanga In this episode, the host, Autisticly Aar, interviews Troy Njenje-Mbanga, a 21-year-old ambassador and youth activist from West Oxford Wakefield. Troy shares his journey of advocating for inclusion and the rights of young people with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities). He …
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DisElectAbility: Get A Taste of DisElectAbility with Paula Peters from Disabled People Against Cuts
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1:04:56Episode description: Paula Peters: A Lifelong Activist for Disability Rights In this heartfelt and compelling interview, Paula Peters recounts her journey as a disability rights activist starting from the age of eight. Paula discusses her personal struggles with hypermobility syndrome and the fight to keep hydrotherapy services available in Southea…
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Emotion & Empathy: The Sixth Sense (rainbow reads archive)
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17:14Autistic people are faced with the stereotype of lacking empathy but this may not be the case. But what you may not think is emotional processing is a sixth sense. Back in 2020 Autisticly Aar in wrote this article on sensory processing of emotions and empathy with additions in 2022 on alexythimia follow @neurorainbowproject / @pacifyingmyautism rea…
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Sia is autistic. was the movie 'Music' just a 'Cheap Thrill'? (Rainbow Reads Archive)
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9:33As published on https://neurorainbowproject.com/rainbowreads donate via https://ko-fi.com/neurorainbowproject follow @neurorainbowproject on social media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Christine McGuinness Unmask's Her Autism (Rainbow Reads article archive)
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12:28About the BBC One documentary on autistic model, campaigner and television personality Christine McGuinness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Kayla Smith is a black autistic disability rights advocate in the United States of America. She joins Autisticly Aar to talk about her experiences as a black autistic woman, how autism affects, her sharing truths on ableism, privilege and misinformation and racism and sexism in ableism. She has done previous interviews and articles on her lived exp…
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Bex Foulsham: Lib Dem campaigner and Young Liberal Disability representative on Disability and LGBTQ rights
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1:55:04Bex Foulsham (They/She) Neurodivergent queer political campaigner, history and politics student and sailor opens up about their gender and sexuality identity and their neurodivergent conditions dyspraxia, ADHD and autism and how christian faith has helped them accept their non binary gender identity and their passion for politics Hosted on Acast. S…
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The Tumi Sotire Interview: Chatting with The Black Dyspraxic about intersectionality in the british neurodivergent community
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52:45Autisticly Aar chats to Tumi Sotire a,k.a The Black Dyspraxic about his dyspraxia, and what it was like growing up dyspraxic, being dyspraxic in his job as a health data economist with University of Newcastle and his advocacy and activism work he has done with his social media @TheBlackDyspraxic. He has a keen interest in talking about intersection…
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Deep Dive Into PDA with Chrissie Robinson from Everyday PDA
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1:54:58Neurodivergent mother to two neurodivergent children with PDA amongst other diagnoses of autism, ADHD and dyslexia. Chrissie shares all about her neurodivergent family and her content creation advocating and raising awareness of pathological demand avoidance. In this episode we have a deep dive into what PDA is. Email: neurorainbow@neurorainbowproj…
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Disabled In America with Ola Ojewumi
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1:08:34Disability rights activist and founder of a non-profit providing scholarships to disadvantaged low-income students with Project Ascend, political campaigner and former Capitol Hill worker. In the first 'Disabled In America' explores her political life and how inequalities in schooling inspired her to a path in politics describing Barack Obama as on…
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DJ Lucky Light shares her autistic and adhd life from growing up to becoming a rising star in the Seattle EDM club and rave scene. There’s very few neurodivergent women in club DJing. Talking about how to cope with the sensory world of the bright lights and loud music of club scenes where she is kniown for sucking a pacifier as she performs. For fi…
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Author behind the memoir Everything Is Going To Be K.O chats life with learning difficulties and her ability and passion for story telling Visit www.neurorainbowproject.com For more about everything is going to be k.o visit https://www.everythingko.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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TW/CW: references to personal trauma, social media bullying and hate, bullying, suicidal ideation and mild references to assault. Saranne is a content creator on TikTok creating videos of her doing her make up and talking about being neurodivergent. She chats to Autisticly Aar about her route to a diagnoses, misdiagnoses, mental health and the real…
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TW; Mentions f suicidal thoughts, depression and childhood bullying Freelance journalist Nicholas Fearn joins Autisticly Aar to talk about his career in journalism, his mental health and school experience in a honest chat around mental health in the autistic community If you are affected by any issues mentioned in the podcast visit for more: https:…
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Ciara Lawrence a charity spokesperson and media advocate for the learning disability charity Men Cap chats to Autisticly Aar about her life living with a learning disability as to a specific learning difficulty. We chat also about her ‘Pink Sparkle Podcast’ which has featured Penny Mourdant Conservative MP and Krishnan Guru-Murphy Channel 4 News re…
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The Lydia Powell Interview: The ADHD confidence coach for neurodivergent women
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1:28:17Confidence coach Lydia Powell chat’s to Autisticly Aar about her work as a confidence coach but what lead to that. Exploring her neurodivergent story as a woman who got misdiagnosed before finding herself as ADHD to helping other neurodivergent women. It’s a blockbuster interview with an extensive story of life with ADHD, insomnia Tourettes disorde…
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Trainee educational psychologist and former assistant SENDCO in a English primary school Tiffany Nelson joins Autisticly Aar to chat about the state of education in schools in UK Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Autisticly Aar welcomes Athina Spann to the podcast for a collaboration episode with Athina's podcast 'Let's Talk Disability' where we talk life with autism and dyspraxia. You can watch this episode on Youtube and Facebook Watch; Subscribe on Youtube: https://youtube.com/@RainbowcastPlayer?si=-p_OgF415LUW4al support the podcast:https://ko-fi.com/ne…
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The Harriet Kemsley Interview: Archive Special
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49:39Harriet Kemsley earlier this year joined Autisticly Aar to chat about her dyspraxia diagnoses and career in comedy You can now simultaneously watch the releases of the podcast on Facebook Watch and YouTube as it goes out on acast supported platforms. Watch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/dYF2kfEufuM support the pod: https://ko-fi.com/neurorainbowprojec…
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In this interview of the Neuro Rainbow Cast with Autisticly Aar. Aar chats to neurodivergent affirming British child occupational therapist Holly Sprake-Hill about her work as an occupational therapist, parenting autistic children and what is special education has been like for her child. We also talk about her own diagnoses of dyslexia, dyspraxia,…
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Ciara McCarthy (She/They) discusses her experiences as a deaf autistic person who has Cerebral Palsy and her activism and advocacy work encouraging other young people to be politically active and furthering the cause for disability education and inclusive education for disabled people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Autistic speech and language therapist Emily Price (She/Her) discusses her profession as a speech and language therapist, the communicative differences of neurodivergent people and what use does speech and language therapy have for neurodivergent people. She also discussed her autism diagnoses that came after she qualified as a speech and language …
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Leena Sarah Farhat (She/They) chats to Autisticly Aar about her diagnoses of autism, about how they masked and how people underestimate the talents of Autistic people sharing the unique skills and advantages to focused interests to autistic community and relationships. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Rachel Winder (She/Her) returns to chat to Autisticly Aar about her campaign and petition for the British government to introduce a statutory regulator and governing body to improve the care and interventions that autistic people are faced with. When national scandals and trauma stories of abuse continue to be told. She answers what it would mean t…
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Comedian Variety D chats to Autisticly Aar about her experiences as a black disabled comedian in Britain, about her epilepsy, ADHD and autistic brothers. contact the show: [email protected] for more: www.neurorainbowproject.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Comedian Variety D chats to Autisticly Aar about her experiences as a black disabled comedian in Britain, about her epilepsy, ADHD and autistic brothers. contact the show: [email protected] for more: www.neurorainbowproject.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Eryn Tett (She/Her) British comedian and actor talks to Autisticly Aar about her career in alternative comedy and her autism diagnoses Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Luke (He/Him) chats to Autisticly Aar about his autism diagnoses and a career in stand-up that challenges the tired old trope of autistic people not being funny. An insightful that autistic people really can be funny. email: [email protected] / [email protected] visit: www.neurorainbowproject.com Follow Facebook/ Instagram/ Ti…
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Sara (She/Her) chats to Autisticly Aar about her memoir Drama Queen A lifetime of labels about the journey in her life to find the life changing label of autism and being autistic. We chat around the privilege of being able to tell your story and the importance that people from diverse backgrounds are giving the platform to tell theirs believing th…
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Rachel Winder (She/Her) chats to Autisticly Aar about her late diagnoses of autism, ADHD. with conversations on having late diagnoses, life for neurodivergent people as a minority group and her recent chat on the BBC's Anti-Social series. She is an influencer content creator on neurodivergent issues which is an avid focused interest of Winder who h…
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Tessa McEnvoy She/Her In this interview with myself explores her diagnoses of apraxia, as well as sensory processing disorder, bipolar disorder and autism. On Facebook she has created the 'Apraxia Story' blog, a blog which is where she writes of her diagnoses of apraxia and neurodivergent conditions and her experiences of being an adoptee. In this …
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She/Her contains references to self injurious meltdowns and references to the ideation of unaliving ones self. Jess speaks to Autisticly Air about her diagnoses of autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, endometriosis and interstitial cystitis a condition which affects the bladder. She speaks of her late diagnoses and honestly her internalised ableism p…
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Darryl Morris He/Him Chats to Autisticly Aar about his ADHD diagnoses as a young child and how his ADHD proved an advantage in curiosity and in his career as a broadcast journalist. formerly working with Radio X, Talk TV now you can hear Darryl every Saturday and Sunday night 22:00-01:00 on Times Radio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor…
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The Harriet Kemslet Interview: Laugh out loud fun with the dyspraxic comedian
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52:55She/Her Harriet is a comedian you may have seen her pop up across the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Comedy Central all over TV shows like Live At The Apollo and 8 Out of Ten Cats Does Countdown. As well as radio programmes and podast including one she hosted with comedian friend Sunil Patel called 'Why Is Harriet Crying'. This episode features no intro a…
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Natalie Balmain She/Her. Winner and contestant of Channel 4's political reality show Make Me Prime Minister where over six episodes a select few of Britain's want to be prime minister's see whether they can make it to downing street, albeit a prop set for television only, close enough. In an age where politics defined by permacrisis and is in unste…
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The Sara Jane Harvey interview @agonyautie She/Her. Chatting on her return to activism, advocacy and public speaking. We go through her neurodivergent story, the story of how she found out she was autistic and her son got diagnosed as being autistic too. You can here her art for telling a personal story, a story of experience of listening and learn…
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This is the first cross-over between Autisticly Aar’s NeuroCast podcast and another podcast. This chat has already been uploaded to Mason’s podcasting outlets and feeds including the video to YouTube titled ‘The Ultimate Podcast Crossover Special’ titled by Mason. I and Mason talk about our experiences of autism with me telling more of my own perso…
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Hello, Merry Christmas. This is the first ever Christmas Episode of the podcast dropping at an earlier time of 0700 GMT UK time on Christmas morning. A slightly different episode this is me creating an audio note of what christmas can be like and what it's been like returning to doing the podcast. In this diary episode Rosemary and Loz who you've h…
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Actor, Writer and Producer Lola Louise Marria brings the conclusive interview of this years season with a conversation that touches on her neurodivergent life. A young woman diagnosed autistic when in college notes of how it was recognised earlier but systemic issues made her wait until college, ADHD and seeking diagnoses of Bipolar which she expla…
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