63. VALUING NEURODIVERSITY: how society needs to change
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Hello! Today we speak to two autistic people about what the neurodiversity movement is and what it means to them. Penny Andrews and Georgia Harper join us to talk about their personal experience of living with autism, and how our society, employers and all of us can learn to value and benefit from neurodiversity.
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Comedian Jodie Mitchell would like to tech up the fight against men stealing women's ideas, old tinted glasses for those who believe the olden days were better and a ban on incense for anyone who's not using it for religious purposes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by PodSaveTheUK, |
| 0:02.8 | the new weekly politics podcast with Nishkama and KokoKan. |
| 0:06.4 | We've been big fans of PodSaveAmerica for years. |
| 0:10.5 | And now, the people behind that podcast |
| 0:13.3 | bring you the same sharp, smart, funny perspective to UK politics. |
| 0:17.8 | Now, as I said at the start, the hosts and Nishkama, |
| 0:20.5 | love that guy, you'll know him from the Mashraport, |
| 0:23.8 | count the Southern TV shows and podcasts and radio programs. |
| 0:27.6 | But as well as being one of the funniest people I know, |
| 0:30.1 | he is also one of the cleverest. |
| 0:32.0 | And this is going to be the place where you get to hear |
| 0:35.2 | that big old brain given space to soar. |
| 0:38.6 | Honestly, Nishkama's wired directly |
| 0:41.0 | into the mainframe of political news. |
| 0:42.7 | He's such an astute thinker and absolutely fearless. |
| 0:46.5 | And I was thrilled to see that he's teamed up |
| 0:48.0 | with journalist KokoKan. |
| 0:49.6 | I have really enjoyed her writing these last few years. |
| 0:52.7 | What I love about the pairing is she is not yet |
| 0:54.9 | another of the usual Westminster suspects. |
| 0:57.4 | Honestly, this is going to be funny, that's a given. |
| 0:59.5 | But it's also going to cut through the nonsense |
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