Autism Explained (2020 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. A lot of you have been asking me over the years to talk about autism, |
| 0:06.1 | and a lot of you out there even say to me, you write me and say that you're on the spectrum. |
| 0:12.0 | It's a very complicated thing that I actually don't have a ton of experience with. |
| 0:16.2 | I have some early experience in my career with, but I would never call myself an expert or of the knowledge |
| 0:23.4 | of amount to be able to speak with any kind of expertise around that. |
| 0:29.6 | And occasionally we kind of get into it, but I thought I would have an expert on the show |
| 0:34.3 | to talk about autism once and for all and maybe come back on the show |
| 0:38.4 | and maybe answer people's questions as time goes on because again a lot of people not only half |
| 0:44.0 | of you are therapists who might be treating people on this spectrum but also again a lot of you |
| 0:48.9 | are self-identify as being on the spectrum so So welcome to the show, Megan. Please introduce yourself. |
| 0:57.3 | Hey, everyone. My name is Megan Wildhood. I am a Seattle and I am working on my MSW. I work in social |
| 1:08.3 | services. I have a background in crisis work. So I've worked with a number of people on the spectrum, and I myself have been diagnosed as on the spectrum as well. |
| 1:19.6 | Great. So what are some common misconceptions about autism that you want to clear up here? |
| 1:25.6 | Sure. Thanks for that question. The first thing I would love to clear up here? Sure. Thanks for that question. |
| 1:27.8 | The first thing I would love to clear up is this very common stereotype that people on the |
| 1:37.3 | spectrum lack empathy. |
| 1:41.5 | It's very common and it's very damaging, partly because it's just absolutely not true. |
| 1:50.1 | And I think one of the reasons people may think that it's true is because there's sometimes |
| 1:58.2 | people experience a lot of social difficulties. |
| 2:02.6 | And so I know for myself, I don't express empathy in a way that is expected or easily |
| 2:11.6 | recognized by many people. |
| 2:13.6 | And so what often happens with me is I will feel something so deeply that I'll shut down. And it will look like I am not interested. I am not connected and I don't care. I know several other of my friends and other people that I've worked with also experienced something similar. And so I would |
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