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Confidence Takes Time: Courn Ahn on Disability, Identity, and Belonging

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Courn Ahn is a designer, content creator, and advocate who cares deeply about accessibility and social justice. Their work focuses on helping people see disability, identity, and community support in a new way, especially through the lens of queerness, race, and being neurodivergent.

As a Queer, nonbinary, mixed-race Korean creative, Courn shares from personal experience and speaks honestly about the challenges that come with being disabled in a world full of assumptions. Courn's journey has been about unlearning shame, accepting who they are, and understanding that using visible accommodations isn’t something to hide, it’s a powerful way to take care of yourself.

Courn also talks about how people often assume you don’t need help if you look like you’re doing well, and how sharing online as a disabled person can be both meaningful and exhausting. Through their design work and presence on social media, Courn is not just creating content, Courn Ahn is also creating space for real conversations, celebrating differences, and reminding us that accessibility should matter to everyone

Key Moments
00:00 What people get wrong about autistic people
06:43 Struggling with what to share online
14:18 Tools that make life easier
20:42 How style helps show who I am
27:01 Feeling free to be myself
33:13 How different parts of my identity connect
52:57 Finding confidence through disability

Connect with Courn Ahn
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtneyahndesign

Website: https://www.courtneyahndesign.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/candy.courn/

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Manage episode 487964521 series 3550156
Content provided by Erin and Lily. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Erin and Lily or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Courn Ahn is a designer, content creator, and advocate who cares deeply about accessibility and social justice. Their work focuses on helping people see disability, identity, and community support in a new way, especially through the lens of queerness, race, and being neurodivergent.

As a Queer, nonbinary, mixed-race Korean creative, Courn shares from personal experience and speaks honestly about the challenges that come with being disabled in a world full of assumptions. Courn's journey has been about unlearning shame, accepting who they are, and understanding that using visible accommodations isn’t something to hide, it’s a powerful way to take care of yourself.

Courn also talks about how people often assume you don’t need help if you look like you’re doing well, and how sharing online as a disabled person can be both meaningful and exhausting. Through their design work and presence on social media, Courn is not just creating content, Courn Ahn is also creating space for real conversations, celebrating differences, and reminding us that accessibility should matter to everyone

Key Moments
00:00 What people get wrong about autistic people
06:43 Struggling with what to share online
14:18 Tools that make life easier
20:42 How style helps show who I am
27:01 Feeling free to be myself
33:13 How different parts of my identity connect
52:57 Finding confidence through disability

Connect with Courn Ahn
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtneyahndesign

Website: https://www.courtneyahndesign.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/candy.courn/

  continue reading

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