103: Autism (actually) Speaks with Kerry Magro

Struggle Care

KC Davis

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 750 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

For several recent episodes, I’ve been interviewing people with autism about their perspectives and experiences. We are discussing the DSM criteria, stereotypes about autism, and how autism affects the lives of both children and adults. An autism diagnosis can have many different nuances, and there is so much more to autism than the DSM criteria. Today’s guest, Kerry Magro, shares his experience in this episode. Join us to learn more! Show Highlights: Kerry’s growing up years with mostly communication and sensory-based challenges, love and support from his family, and his success as a professional certified speaker Kerry’s various college and graduate degrees Stereotypes about autism Understanding autism as a true spectrum with a wide range of complexities and strengths Kerry’s challenges with eye contact and other social norms Understanding “autism burnout,” masking, representation, and “honoring” the disability Kerry’s perspective on autism and relationships “Repetitive and restricted behaviors” in adulthood Kerry’s experience as an adult, dealing with sensory sensitivities and learning to speak up for accommodations Kerry’s experience with autism and physical touch Advice for parents Resources and Links: Connect with KC: Website, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook Get KC’s book, How to Keep House While Drowning We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: www.strugglecare.com/promo-codes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:36.5	So basically what I have been doing is interviewing people and the goal of the podcast is to talk about what autism is from the perspective of what it feels like or the experience of having autism from autistic
1:46.8	individuals. And so going through the, I know there's much more to autism than the DSM
1:52.1	criteria, but I also know that when parents are looking at the DSM criteria, they can only
1:57.6	really imagine what that looks like.
2:01.3	And so what I've been doing is going through the various pieces of the DSM criteria
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